Book club confessions

Yes, I've been remiss in my blogging. I just hate it when earning a living and volunteering for good causes gets in the way of blogging! So, you may have noticed I changed my blog name. When I set up my blog, I didn't know what to call it, so I just went with "A". I've been called "Big A", A2, AJ, Double A...you name it. Growing up with A A as initials, I acquired quite a few A nicknames. And as many of you know, I really should have been a meteorologist with my love of the weather. I watch the Weather Channel like most of you watch American Idol or Grey's Anatomy. And then there is the many other uses of the word "degree". It seems to be a unit of measurement. There are Bachelor degrees, second degree murder, third degree burns, degrees of accuracy and the list goes on and on. Now there is unofficially an A degrees, and it is here at andria-andria.blogspot.com, and it is my method of measuring not just the weather and seasons, but my thoughts, ideas and love. Okay, on to my next thought. Remember my book of the month? It's All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren. I was all excited to read the book, the reviews were great, there is currently a movie of it, the author was a Poet Laureate and on and on. Well, let me tell you, I'm on page 66. Out of 661. I think I'm starting to understand WHY the guy was a Poet Laureate. Let me share with you just two sentences in this book; "Close to the road a cow would stand knee-deep in the midst, with horns damp enough to have a pearly shine in the starlight, and would look at the black blur we were as we went whirling into the blazing corridor of light which we could never quite get into for it would be always splitting the dark just in front of us. The cow would stand there knee-deep in the midst and look at the black blur and the blaze and then, not turning it's head, at the place where the black blur and blaze had been, with the remote, massive, unvindictive indifference of God-Almighty or Fate or me, if I were standing there knee-deep in the midst, and the blur and blaze whizzed past and withered on off between the fields and the patches of woods." I mean COME ON, you have GOT to be kidding me? To the best of my knowledge, they are driving along a dark road and pass some cows...lets not make it anything more than it is! Oh, I know, it's beautiful writing, but I read and read and read and read, and look back, and it's been like three pages. So I have a dilemma. I really want to finish the book, but by April 17th, I just don't see it happening. I looked into the audio book, but it was $40.00 and 21 hours long (do we wonder why?). When would I listen to 21 hours of book on tape?? It takes me 4.5 minutes to get to work...round trip, I'm not even clocking in at 10 minutes. Do the math, it's just not happening. Sigh. I know what your thinking. RENT THE MOVIE, right? Well, you see, that's like breaking the cardinal book club rule. It's like cliff notes were to high school English class. It's the cop out, the "I can't hang, so I had to rent the movie". It will put a black mark on my book club record. Not reading the book is better than watching the movie. I could just plow on through, but at approx 3 pages a night, with 600 to go, I'm looking close to Halloween for a finish date... I gotta sign me up for a speed reading class. Sigh. Okay, enough lamenting...I promise tomorrow I'll be back with those Easter pictures I promised.