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Rachel's Tears
I waited a couple of days to post my entry about this book because the very day after I mentioned that I was going to write about it, Dylan Klebold's mother was on tv talking about the years since the Columbine tragedy. It has to have been some difficult years for all of the families and former students involved. So I had to reconsider the post a bit.

This book is very important to some changes I began making in my life about 2 years ago. I just happened across it at a used book store and I had never heard the story of Rachel Joy Scott

Basically, Rachel Scott was an extremely faithful student who attended Columbine High School and she was killed there. In her backpack among her school books and cosmetics were her diaries. She wrote constantly about her faith and the challenges of her belief and her love for God. She wrote that she knew she was going to die for her beliefs -- all teenagers are given to flights of melodrama - but the book made me really consider what I may not actually know, or even be able to comprehend about faith and God. 

Before reading this book, I allowed myself to be very close-minded about anything spiritual. I lived in a gray enclosed world of 'live now and it will be all over soon'. I don't necessarily agree with the entire belief system as Rachel did or wrote about, but it did wake me up and make me think. It was a little nick in the cynical armor I had covered myself in. It is a very interesting, intense and sad story but a good way into understanding the lives of faithful Christians. 


 
 
   
 

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Reading Between The Lines
There's a person that I only know through the book site GoodReads. I have never actually had a conversation with this person. She randomly sent me a friend request one day and I accepted it, noticing she had an interesting (to me) reading list and that our tastes in books were remarkably similar. I regularly see her reading updates and always marvel at how a stranger I've never met or talked to can be on the same wavelength, and quite literally on the same page as me. I find cool books from scanning her list, and I've noticed from time to time she's added some of my books to her "to read" list as well.

Recently her booklist has changed a little in tone...books on coping with divorce suddenly started appearing. And today, I received an e-mail update from GoodReads saying she had added a book on cooking for one. I couldn't help but feel saddened. It isn't really my place to say anything to her, it isn't my business and we have never exchanged a word, only book lists. But I wish I could say, whoever you are, wherever you are...I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. I suppose there is the possibility that she was looking at/finding books for someone else, perhaps a close friend or relative, but somehow, I just know. And I feel bad.

Of course, life goes on and I imagine her list will probably change again sooner or later. Life has more than one chapter, after all...I can only wish her well, and hope her story has a happy ending.
 
 
   
 

I enjoy reading
I enjoy reading
in the park
on the public bus
on the toilet.
I enjoy reading
before class begins
after class begins
in bed at night
by the window when it's raining .
I enjoy reading
anywhere.
I have even read
in the shower.
 
 
 

   
Things Going Through My Head
  • My throat is so freakin raw!!! And my head is all spinney and light.
  • I really don't want to go to work. I wouldn't want to go to work even if I weren't sick. But now I really don't want to go to work.
  • I should have a movie marathon while I'm off. That'd be really lazy. Maybe I should break it up and spend the time in between sessions walking up to my spot and reading.
  • I really would love to spend the afternoon reading rather than working.
  • It'd be so nice to have the house to myself for a few days. I hate leaving it empty and coming home to it full of people. People who are, furthermore, sleeping. So I can't do what I want to do.
  • I can't believe I thought I was living my life on my own terms. That was such an optimistic moment. I want it back. I blame Stardust and the last major idea conveyed being living life on your own terms, not someone else's. I thought I was doing just that, but I'm not.
  • This is depressing. I should go brush my teeth. And then drag myself to evil Kmapart. Ugh.
 
 
   
 

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