The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
Some readers turn to chick-lit, mysteries, or YA novels when they are feeling mentally tired and not up to reading denser fare. Allegedly this is what summer reading is all about. I have never experienced a difference in my reading patterns from season to season but I do sometimes feel the need to take a [...]
I know that I continue to be inordinately absent from this blog and I promise that it is not because I don’t love my readers or that I no longer value my blogging experience. Remember that I am trying to write a book. Also to help plan and prepare a wedding. And I’ve got a [...]
OK, here is the breakdown. I think there are two objections to my dismissal of Harry Potter. One, that I’m missing something that is really there or that I ought to be able to enjoy them although I don’t. And two, that my rejection of them entails a rejection of those who do read and [...]
All right. I’ve had it. I can’t read this drivel. I quit. I went an entire year finishing every book I started. I read Ulysses, I finished The Brothers Karamazov in five days, I laughed out loud while finishing up The Odyssey, but I cannot subject myself any longer to the fifth Harry Potter book. [...]
“The Asses found themselves once so intolerably oppressed with cruel masters and heavy burdens, that they sent their ambassadors to Jupiter, with a petition for redress. Jupiter found the request unreasonable, and so gave them this answer, that humane society could not be preserved without carrying burdens some way of other: so that if they [...]
Don’t you just hate it when all your inspiration comes after you’re in bed ready to fall asleep? Yeah, me too. I was up writing until midnight. I know that is not late to you young things; I too used to be up until 2, 3 or 5 for homework, for “hanging out” or just [...]
I didn’t finish Aesop’s Fables in time for book club. shocking I know. With the inevitability of having to finish before the year is out, you would think finishing within a two-week time frame would be simple. But you would be calculating without the dull, soulless morality of the Greeks. I simply cannot believe that [...]
Sixty-five days and thirty-nine books. Scary… I am working on staying up later to get more reading in. Now I drink a pot of coffee every morning and half a pot every night. So far it has meant an extra few hundred pages. I finished Sons and Lovers and I just want to say thank [...]
I WANT MORE SLEEP! Alex was up crying again last night and since Luc spent all day yesterday crying unless he was actively being held or fed I didn’t really feel up to dealing with more fussiness. I’d already stayed up kinda late reading so when the screeching started I had barely dropped off to [...]
I read all of The Secret Garden yesterday and I’m really over pedantic children’s literature. Ok, ok, I get it, fresh air and plain food are all the world needs… In other news the boys and I had an absolutely fabulous day. We played, I worked and hardly a fussy note escaped either of them! [...]