The life of a Catholic school teacher

Not on my list of books to read this year is the book Hollywood Monster by Robert Englund. He's the guy who played Freddy Krueger in all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. It wasn't on my list because I don't own it. And I don't own it because it just came out in the fall and Books-a-Million hasn't put its nice little discount sticker on it, and I just can't seem to pay 26 dollars for a book when I have other bills that 26 dollars would be good for. However, I have really wanted to read this book because I'm an autobiography-aholic, preferably for autobiographies of celebrities. For whatever reason, I am a big fan of finding out behind-the-scenes type information. I seriously couldn't put down the 500+ page book that told the story of Saturday Night Live. I read it in like, a week. Anyway, I was super curious to read all about the guy who was such a part of the horror movies my dad and I loved as a kid. In fact, I often forget that fond memory of my dad and I going to Blockbuster repeatedly to find the latest 'spookie' to watch together. So after wanting to read this book for quite some time, I finally went to the library and paid my 20 dollars in overdue fees and did one of those purchase order requests for the book. They got the book and I was finally able to read it. I wasn't disappointed. It makes me want to go out and rent all of the Nightmare movies now that I know the story behind each of them.

Now that the book is finished, I am reading another book that is not on the list...Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. It's a children's classic that has somehow escaped this teacher's knowledge bank of books read. So at the insisting of a parent of one of my former students, I am in posession of her copy of the book and now faced with the task of finishing it before school gets out so I can give the book back to her.

Perhaps soon I will get to the list of books that I own that I originally intended to read.

P.S. LOVED The Time Traveller's Wife but will wait to watch the movie until I'm ready for a good cry.