Caught in the middle

So, I wrote this post on March 26th and I'm just uploading it now.. woops.

So, I'm currently caught in the middle of three different books:

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Without You by Anthony Rapp

I have no idea how I sucked myself into the middle of three separate books. I started reading Rapp's first. I was in a production of Rent so I had a big interest in seeing what it was like to be in it on Broadway, and to learn more about Anthony Rapp and his experiences. So, I got into that. THEN, I decided I really needed to get back into a series after loving the Hunger Games series. Which led me to start reading Dead Until Dark. I love all things vampires, and I always have. I can honestly say I am not one of those people who started being crazy about vampires when Twilight came out. It just aided me in my vampire addiction... So, alright I start reading Dead Until Dark... it's not amazing but it gives me something to read. I actually spent several bubble baths reading it. However, my lack of a schedule has stopped me from being able to fully focus on it. At this point I'm stuck in the middle of two books... and then the third one joins in.  My students are studying biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs in my English class. So, we discussed the Columbine High School Massacre, and I read them part of Marjorie Lindholm's memoir, A Columbine Survivor's Story. My students had no idea what the Columbine High School Massacre was when I introduced it, which totally left me baffled. I was in middle school when it happened. My students started asking more questions about the events, so I looked up information online. Apparently, everything that the news leaked when I was in middle school was incorrect. The fact that this information was incorrect, lead me to the novel Columbine where a journalist who had covered the massacre at the time, has compiled actual information and has laid the record straight. I can honestly say that in a weird way, I am enjoying the book. Don't get me wrong, I am not enjoying the events that took place in the massacre, but I AM enjoying the fact that Cullen is basically telling us what really happened and that everything we had heard on the news was full of rumors, lies, and speculation. I love a good conspiracy story.

So, that is where I am. Hopefully over my spring break this week I can finish all three books and add them to my challenge of 50 books for 2010. I'm flying down to Florida this week to visit family, so the plane ride will give me some good reading time (if the movie on the plane doesn't distract me).