I read like it's going out of style (which, if you read the reports, it is). I love books. I haven't yet switched over to the Kindle because I get most of my reading material from the library but I'm sure it's coming. Especially since I realized that you can load electronic resource books (that I can get from my library website) onto a Kindle. Be still my heart.
I read everything - young adult (if properly written - I think a good book should transcend age brackets, but some out there are just too young for me (but then, I was reading adult books at 10 years old, so that makes sense too)), straight literature, some classics (I admit, I've always wished I liked classics better than I do ... I buy them feeling that I should be reading them, but then they sit in my library wasting space), light chick-lit, vamp fiction, memoirs ... you get the point.
But right now I have a stack of books on my nightstand that is taller than my newborn son and I just can't get myself to read them. Non-fiction (Generation Me), Fiction (Jen Lancaster), Stephenie Meyer (The Host - thought it was worth a try), Firefly Lane (suggested by Mama Fuss and what I'm reading right now) ... you name it, it's there. I have plenty of time to read, despite having a toddler and a newborn. I make time to read. But lately I just stare at the words.
I find this sad. I miss my reading.
There was no point to this post. I just felt like complaining about my lack of attention span. Now that I've rambled, I'm off to stare at Phineas and Ferb for awhile.
1 comment:
Hope you're enjoying Firefly Lane. I did. Made me miss my childhood best friend. :)
I read 2-3 pages of a fiction book I had been saving when I was in the hospital when I delivered Fuss. I didn't read another word of fiction until she was 3 months old and it depressed me. I had some child-rearing nonfiction books I read during that time, but no fiction - my usual choice. I finally decided to take the time and I felt SO much better for it. But when your head is so scrambled that you can't focus, even when the content is light, it's awfully hard to read. :) Hope you can get back to it soon.
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