A little indecisive?

I stopped at the library on the way home yesterday to return some items I checked out and a couple items I had on hold were ready to pick up. I am now going to change the book I'm reading once again, but I WILL stick with it this time.

Am I the only one who will choose a book based on a movie or a reference from a movie?

Over the weekend, I watched Saving Mr. Banks. It is a movie about Walt Disney trying to get P.L. Travers to give him the movie rights to Mary Poppins so he could make the movie. The movie offered some insight into what Travers's life used to be like. I found it very interesting.

Several years ago I read the book Mary Poppins and I didn't really like it. I thought Mary Poppins was mean and selfish and not Julie Andrews. After watching Saving Mr. Banks I decided I needed to reread Mary Poppins and I wanted to see if there is a biography about P.L. Travers. The life described in Saving Mr. Banks, really explains why Travers's Mary Poppins is so different from Julie Andrews's Mary Poppins. I found a biography, Mary Poppins, She Wrote by Valerie Lawson.

Now I am excited to read this book and learn some more about Travers's life and Mary Poppins. When I am done reading the biography I wil reread Mary Poppins with new eyes, then I may even rewatch both movies.

I think I will be busy for a while. The nice thing is that in 1.5 weeks my 12th grade students will be choosing non-fiction independent reading books for their 2nd semester Independent Reading Project and now I can join them in their non-fiction discussions with my real-time reading.