I forget what day we are up to, but it's titled "Currently Reading"

Look, I DON'T DO NUMBERS. I know the photo a day challenge relates to the date, therefore even a simpleton would remember what the photoaday number we are at, but there's idiots, and then there is myself around numbers. I'm bigger than the idiot okay? We are over the number five now, so I'm struggling. I have to leave the number out now. TOO HARD. 

More exciting though was todays photo was titled "Currently Reading". That I can deal with.  From a very early age I HAVE HATED NUMBERS. Yes caps are required. Yes I know it's yelling. I HATE THEM and I have always LOVED AND ADORED READING.  I recall vividly being amongst the early readers in primary school and being ahead in leaps and bounds, but even back then dragging badly, oh so shamefully behind in the numbers game. 

It never changed. Despite remedial maths classes, extra tuition, no matter what, the learning disability (and complete fear and HATRED OF NUMBERS) has never gone.  But words? I adore thee.  I don't think I've met a book I didn't like, and I'll even forgive page numbers for hovering on the bottom of my beloved beauties.  

Actually there are books out there not to my liking of course, not my genre, possibly about the dreaded math that I hate, but I do spare some love their way for the mere fact they are a book, and someone has written words and put together such a thing.  For that I'll like it, even if it's not one I myself would actually read. 

So my photo challenge prompted me to ask what I was reading. This was another conundrum, because like some people watch multiple TV shows at once, depending what time it is, you know 6pm the news, 7pm Big Bang Theory, 8pm How I Met Your Mother (yes, I'm very high brow aren't I?); I will have a number of books going at any one time.  There's the light hearted chick lit book, the drift off to sleep book, the old comfort book, the very in depth and don't come near me I need to concentrate book, often an old vintage pony book on the go (don't ask, it's another story again). At any time I will be reading six books at once and equally totally, completely into all of them.   For the photo of the day I picked up one of my "heart" books, Anne of Green Gables, actually it may have technically been Anne of the Island, I can't recall.  Was one of the Anne ones anyway.  Many of my books are in storage back in Australia but some of my beloveds made the trek across the seas as I could't bear the thought of being apart from them for so long. 

Oh yes, I have a kindle too and I know I can also get them there.  Despite loving my vintage books I also love the kindle for a myriad of reasons that I'll go into later, but I can't right now because I'm thinking of Lucy Maud Montgomery. ahhhhh, LM Montgomery, author of the Anne Series, Emily of New Moon Series, the Story Girl books. If ever words are written in my heart it's hers.  I grew up reading these and they have long stayed with me.  Like many are obsessed with Jane Austen's novels, I'm a little obsessed with Montgomery's.  I have Prince Edward Island where they were set on my bucket list, I want to see where she lived, I want to sit and drink in where she wrote those words.  GOD I HAVE GOT TO SHUT UP.

Seriously, PUFFED SLEEVES MUTHAFUCKAS!!! 

Yeah, okay she wouldn't have said that, Anne was written in 1908 for a start. But sometimes I have to say that to calm myself down or I'm lost in my Prince Edward Island world of 1908.

Words, I farking love em. There. Better.

I'm also mildy obsessed with Little Woman.  Louisa May Alcott. LM Alcott. What is it with the LM? Is this why I haven't become a brilliant writer? My initials are LJ Walker not LM? Must look into changing name by deed poll.  When I say mildly obsessed what I mean is I may have rewritten three different endings to the first book.  (yes, there are subsequent books, Little Men and Jo's Boys).  This was waaaaaay before I knew about that little thing called FanFiction, but I have never been quite satisfied with the ending (god, sorry Louisa, I love you so much, but why, why not Jo and Teddy?!) so I wrote some alternate endings that suited me better. I often think I might try them out on a FanFiction site, but I was a lot younger when I wrote them so they are quite wordy and melodramtic. You know, much like my writing now.

PUFFED SLEEVES MUTHAFUCKAS!!!

Right, calmed down again.  Before you are thinking I am a big nerd that only reads novels set in the dark ages of dashing men and women in big dresses, beeeeeep. Wrong, they just happen to be very close to my heart. I read (devour is probably a more apt word) pretty much everything. But don't go dissing Montgomery on me... she is my kindred spirit. 

Shite, I just recalled I have to post a pic today don't I? That's what I came here for. 

Here we go, currently reading. My book. In my little writing corner. You are now free to go. Congrats on getting this far. What an effort.