Time To Go (+ Book)

This time with family has been fun, but for the sake of what remains of my waistline, it's time to go. Time to pick up the surly bun bun and return to dawrighthouse.

I went on a quick shopping trip with my MIL this morning to score some sales on clothes. Got home this afternoon and realized that the security devices are still on them. So guess what we're doing tomorrow before going to the airport?

Then it's nothing but water and running until school starts in January. No more stress dreams from last semester but guess what? Now I'm having stress dreams about it being the first day of class next semester and I don't have a clue about the syllabus. **sigh** I know what I'll be doing the rest of the week. In order to lower my blood pressure.

Isn't this the best pic?

And speaking of books, read this one:

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

This book has been on the best-seller list forever and there has been much hype about it. That said, I didn't really know what it was about. So here you go. A woman takes the same commute to and from work every day. There is a routine stop next to a grouping of houses, and she sees the same couple out on their balcony; she creates names and a back story for them as a kind of entertainment for herself. Then one day she sees the woman do something very suspicious, and then it's in the news that the woman has disappeared. As the narrator gets more involved in the story, the police (and the reader) wonder about her integrity as a witness, since she is an alcoholic with a troubled past. Then the plot, of course, thickens.

Hawkins is a good writer and story teller. People have compared this to Gone Girl, but I do not see any comparison. This is dark and twisted but nowhere near the extent of GG. This one is dark, though. Maybe serious is a better word. The story follows people with problems, dealing with an extremely problematic situation. By the end, though, I could not stop reading.

On to Jane Eyre.