Currently Reading

A few weekends ago, David was at the computer and I was standing beside him when I got the urge to pull all of our books out of our four bookcases and organize them (thanks to David, I have become an organizing freak-of-nature). So I did, and I organized them according to genre and time period. Organizing the books was nice, because it made them so much easier to locate and it satisfied the OCD in me. Wednesday, I was standing around again when I decided to count all of the books I've read in our book collection. I realized that there is an entire bookcase full of our books that I have not read! Because of this realization, I have decided that I am not going to buy another book until I have read every book that we own. We have lots of good books, so I am very excited about the next several months of reading I have ahead of me. I've decided to use my blog to keep track of the books I'm reading.
So . . .

I'm currently reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot


Middlemarch was originally published between the years of 1871-1872 as a serial before being published in one volume in 1874. It is subtitled A Study of Provincial Life. The story is about a group of characters living in the Midlands of England in the early 1830s.
I really love this book! I love how you get to see into the lives of all of the characters-you get to hear their thoughts on everything: love, religion, politics, family, economy-and you get to see how all of their lives are connected by the choices that each one of the characters make. The female characters are my favorite part of the book. They are so interesting because their choices (both big and small) cause me to experience sympathy, rage, and complete understanding-all at the same time! Eliot is great at developing all of her characters in a way that makes you very interested to see what happens to them.
It is a long book (almost 800 pages), but the serialization makes it really easy to read. I also really love how Eliot heads each section in the book with quotations. Some of them are in foreign languages, but the guide in the back of the book translates them and it's fun to try to figure out how each quote is going to relate to its section.
David's brother recommended this book to me, and I'm very grateful that he did, because it has become one of my favorites! Hopefully, this part of my blog will serve a similar purpose. I can keep track of my reading and recommend books, simultaneously!
I expect to be finished with Middlemarch by the end of next week, so look for a new post soon!

MY FIRST BLOG ENTRY! (and it's only about two months overdue)

So, David created this blog for me about two months ago, maybe more, and this is my very first post. I don't know that I can say that I expected anything different out of myself. I don't scrapbook and I'm horrible about remembering to write in a journal. However, I am going to try to overcome my slacker tendencies and keep up with this blog.
It seems like it is customary for the first post to give some info on the blogger, so here goes:





This is me (Morgan) and my husband David. We met in Athens, GA. We have been married a little over two years. It has been a crazy couple of years, with a move from Athens to Tampa, FL, and then back to Athens. In the time since we've been married David has graduated from the University of Georgia as a Landscape Architect and is now working in that field. I have also graduated from UGA with a degree in English, but I have yet to settle on a career and am currently working at the university. I sense that more schooling is in my future.

Over the past few years that David and I have been together, I have observed that we are opposites in so many ways. David is an introvert (anyone that knows him, knows that I am right) and I am an extrovert. David's idea of paradise would be a deserted island containing only books and food (his two favorite things)-oh yeah, and me. I however, love to be around people. I talk a lot (sometimes too much) and I love having fun with David and friends and family. We sometimes agree on music and movies, but we always agree on books. We love to read. Our books are our prized possessions. Our life goal is to completely surround ourselves in books- I think we're on our way! Another thing we both love is the outdoors and being active. We love being outside. David is a runner (he's currently training for the Atlanta Marathon), so he spends lots of time outside. I have currently picked up tennis. I love going down to our nice little tennis court in the woods to play! We also love whitewater canoeing and hiking and camping. We're way excited about the fall and all of the fun outdoor things that come with cooler weather!

So there we are. We're different, but we make sense and we always have fun together! There will be many more posts and many more pictures of all of the fun to come!