Literacy Trip and Family

I became very dismayed when I learned heading back to Kansas meant leaving the 70 degree weather in New York and coming back to SNOW! Despite this, I notice really how much my family loves to read. Every single trip we go on...reading takes place in the down moments and the transporting time. When packing my carry-on bag I always fill it with books. Eventually, I realize that all the books I have chosen to take on the trip will not fit, I go though the difficult process of deciding which ones to take. My mom has the same problem.

My sister, Michelle, has always hated reading. I was blown away on this trip by the fact that she was glued to a book the entire time (and well texting..haha). Every moment that we were in the airport waiting, on the plane, or in our hotel room she had her nose in this book! I was even more blown away when we were flying back and I looked over to see tears streaming down her face as she read on. This author HAD to be good if my sister was enticed and even moved by this book. The book she was reading was written by Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song. I plan on reading this book after both my mom and Michelle finishes it (I'm third on the list! haha).

My mom was reading another book...some book about a dog (mom loves animals). She was also glued to her book the entire time. We were all sitting in the hotel room one night relaxing before our big performance and my mom suddenly lets out this huge gasp and starts crying. My dad immediately asks what's wrong and she said that the dog has just died. She continues reading, and then about fifteen minutes later she lets out an angry grrr. We ask what was wrong and she said that it was a different dog that had died. This author continued to take her though an emotional rollercoaster...the best books do this! She finished that book that night and picked up another one.

My dad on the other had...doesn't read your typical books. He is one of those incredibly intelligent men that enjoys reading the technical books that I look at for five minutes and throw to the side. He brought two books to read...one was a book about a Microsoft computer program and the other about research on running barefoot (something that you really should check out Michelle...sounds pretty interesting when he told me about it). My dad doesn't show much emotion when reading but he is always reading something when every night when watching t.v.

I started reading another book that my mom loaned to me. I couldn't put it down from the moment I picked it up. I forgot what it was like to read a book that really enticed me. I had the book almost completely finished the same day I started reading it, but I haven't been able to finish it due to the fact I came back to responsibility in Kansas. The book is about a teacher and a murder mystery--something I can relate to and something that interests me. I hope to have this book finished by the end of the week...we shall see though with my busy schedule. But this trip has been fun to see just how much my family loves to read.
Read for 8 hours.