Ready for this hot weather to be over. . . I wouldn't mind it getting cooler again, crisp Fall weather!

Well, getting ready to move again after being here for about 21 months, almost 2 years. This is the longest I've been in one place since I was 18 when I left for college and that has been about 8 years now. Who knows how long we will stay at this next time probably at least a year maybe if we'll lucky we'll stay for 2!

Moving is always such a big deal and pain. I remember moving out of the first apartment in Seoul before I came back to the US for a couple of months with all my stuff and that was an ordeal. I will never forget that and getting everything done in like a 24 hour period because I was so busy! I also remember the first year that I moved into a house off of campus my sophomore year into this basement of a very old house and then helping my roomate move in when he came and going to breakfast with his parents the next morning. Anyway. . . not important. . .

Enjoy the summer.

A couple of books to share that I read over the past month or so. . .

The Devil's Whisper by Miyuki Miyabe was first published in Japan in 1989. She has also wrote All that she's worth and Shadow Family that I liked better. This book was a little bit on the weird side for me and didn't really feel too much closure at the end of it with the main characters. Basically, a man used a very high form hypnosis to kill women who used men to gain money, and the way he did it made it look like they were all suicide except for the last one. This woman was hit by this boy's uncle who was a taxi driver and then is about the boy basically figuring everything out and learning what really happened to his father years ago. I don't know, I didn't speed through this read or particularly enjoy it or get much from it.

However, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks well that was a different story. I guess I am a bit of a romantic or something, but this might be my favorite book that I have ready by Mr. Sparks so far. The love story was very intense and I am not just talking about the steamier places in the book with pure passion out of love, but how much the man loved his wife even when she didn't know who he was and was dying of Alzheimer's disease. I believe that this book and how it made me feel and think will stay with me for a while, but most of his books do that. It was a beautiful story!