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Day 18 - A Book You Could Read Over and Over Again and not Get Sick of.

There are very few books I have read more than once.  I could probably count them on one finger - maybe two.  Not only that, it has become more and more unlikely for me to read at all.  I used to love to read - and would do it pretty much every night and every day. When the kids were younger, we would go to the library and check out books pretty much every week.  Now, I don't know the last time I really read a book.  Very sad.  I even stopped my newspaper, because it would sit and sit and nothing would get read.

I used to love to go up to my bed and lay in it and read and read.  Now I go to bed when I am ready to go to sleep and I turn on the television and let it play til I fall asleep.  Ted comes to bed and turns off the television and goes to sleep.  Exciting, eh?

There is one book that I do love.  It's called Wildest Dreams.  It supposed to be a romance novel, but, I don't see it to be a romance novel.  It's about a man and a woman's trek across the country in a wagon train.  He is heading to Montana, she is heading to Denver.  They fall in love on the way and she leaves her family and goes with him.  The book chronicles their lives together and how they grow old together and the trials and tribulations they go through.  I think I've read the book two or three times.

Maybe one day I'll get back to reading.  Not sure when it will be.

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