Will I Catch Up?

On Saturday night I finished Wicked. I can't say that I was really into the story—I appreciated the cleverness of the story, giving the Wicked Witch of the West and East a personal history, but I think I've watched the movie one too many times, played the movie soundtrack too often during my impressionable years, and have tried to impersonate the Witch's voice screeching "Sleep!" and "Poppies!" well beyond the limits of sanity.

It is a good story. I'm sure if I read it again some day in the future I'll connect with it better than I do now. That's happened to me before. I've read a book and mentally went huh?, only to read the book again a decade later and mentally proclaim aha!

I am 4 books behind on the 50 Book Challenge shedule. This is week 12 of the year and I've read 8 books so far. I am disappointed in myself in that I've not yet read the pithy school stuff I have, instead indulging in the bliss of fictional works. Hopefully during the summer I can read with zest as the long summer nights often put me into full night owl mode and I can read until 2 am without suffering for it the next day.

Rating: 4 out of 5
Recommendation: 4 out of 5