My parents always tell me that there is a first time for everything. Yesterday, I experienced one of those firsts.

As you may know, I'm currently reading The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street. It's a really good book, showing Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy's point of view. I laughed out loud more than a couple times!

I had gotten to the end of chapter sixteen. This is the point where Darcy is going to tell Bingley what he did to seperate Bingley from Jane. The chapter ended. I continued reading, and it didn't make any sense. The book had gone back to chapter fourteen! I skipped to the very end of the book and saw that it ended at chapter sixteen. Obviously, this was a misprint.

My dad is taking this book back to the bookstore today, and I want to know have you ever had a similiar experience? I still can't wait to know how the story ended, and now I have to wait!

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Yesterday, before I returned North of Beautiful to the Library, I opened the book up to look over my favorite passages. Then I stopped and looked at the book. I picked up another book. And another. I probably looked at around fifteen to twenty of my books. Why you might ask? Looking at North of Beautiful, I noticed that it was printed in Calibri. Every single other book I looked at was written in Times New Roman. I wonder how Times New Roman became the default font for books. Personally, I like Calibri a lot better. What about you?

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Ah, the joy of the 3 day weekend. They never fail to make me smile. As far as I know, my family and I will spend it just lounging around the house. I'm currently caught up in the middle of two books, and I was wondering what to share. Then I had one of those "Aha!" moments.

Go here and scroll down to the second post. It's entitled "picture contest winners! and dough." Take a look at the first picture. That would be me, with rocky road ice cream and a book. :D

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

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Almost everyone I know uses them, except one of my friends who has an incredible memory who seems to be able to always remember what page he's on. My problem is that I can never find them! I've bought a couple of really nice ones in the past, but I continually lose them. I currently don't know where they are. They're probably in the house, somewhere. Whenever I don't have one on hand, I'll use whatever I can find; strips of newspaper, a card, whatever's handy.

So what about you? What's your bookmark?

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The rest of the trip went really well. After leaving St. Augustine, we drove up to Brunswick, Georgia stopped in a motel, got up the next morning, went to visit St. Simon's Island, drove to Waycross, Georgia, went to the Okefenokee swamps, took a boat ride through the swamps, and now are on our way home! Oh, and of course we stopped along the way to eat. Whenever a trip ends, I like to think over it. Ready?

1. I can read in the car! Woot! I was so excited. In the past, I've only been able to read in a moving vehicle for a few minutes at a time, but I actually ended up reading the rest of Eldest, in just a couple hours time! This is an incredibly epic discovery! :D

2. Although I love the 19th century and have often wished I could visit, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near St. John's County Jail. Dark and bleak.

3. Life goes by way to fast. I mean, we went to visit a cemetery (people written in a book by Eugenia Price are buried there) and I hardly knew any names. The majority of people are born, live, die, and are forgotten once friends and family die. Kind of made me want to be one to be remembered.

4. When Ponce de Leon landed, he claimed all of North America for Spain. Who knew?

5. "La Florida" means land of the flowers. Very fitting.

6. Shoney's has some really good strawberry pie.

7. The beds at the motels we stayed at are much more comfortable than mine at home. Not fair!

8. I can do some seriously sleeping while on wheels. Like, four hours.

9. Do not wear sandals while riding on a boat through a swamp! The yellow flies and mosquitoes will EAT you!

And finally...

10. Life is good. Seriously. I'm blessed.

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My review of Eldest shall be up tomorrow. Promise. It would have been up today, only I had almost no reading time yesterday. My in-training teen CERT (Community Emergency Respons Team) went to our county's EOC (Emergency Operation Center), so my day was filled up with schoolwork, taking a tour of the center, and hanging out with my friends afterwards. BUT, I'm almost done with Eldest! So far, so good.


If you look up on my header you'll see it says mostly books, so that means there could be times when it's not about books at all, right? Well, this is one of those times, simply because I wanted to share what I'm doing with you.

I went to bed at two and got up at six this morning. After eating breakfast my dad and I put our bags in the truck and headed out! Where were we headed, you might ask? To St. Augustine, Florida! Of course, with St. Augustine all the way across the state, we had to make a stop on the way to see the Stephen Foster Memorial. (Don't know who he is? Short story; amazing songwriter) And so, to the right, that's a picture of a gorgeous piano and painting at the Memorial. It was so cool! While I was there it felt like I stepped back in time.

As far as the title to this post, that was my dad. The ENTIRE way down. Thankfully, he has a pretty good voice, or else I don't know what I would have done! It's all good, though. We had fun, and I'll admit, I even joined in a couple times!

Now, we're safely deposited in a motel not too far from St. Augustine, and tomorrow will be spent perusing the historic part of the city. *sigh* I just love history! I can't wait!

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