read some of the books I own.

I was reading a book I’d borrowed from a friend at my last book swap. It’s the first part of the Ghormenghast trilogy. I’d watched the miniseries that the BBC made out of the first two books and had loved that, but the book was… Well, my boyfriend picked it up one day to see what I was reading and he thought it was impenetrable. It has dense, thick writing and while I wasn’t so worried about that, I’d gotten 200 pages into the 500 page book and still felt like I was maybe 20 minutes into the 6 hour mini-series. I felt like I was plodding through rather than enjoying myself, so I asked my boyfriend to put it on my TBR shelf and grab something else at random.

I was really hoping that I’d like Ghormenghast and that I’d read the whole trilogy enthralled, but I guess it’s not meant to be…

I feel a little stalled out on this goal. I did well before I moved, but then I stopped reading once I got through some of the easier things.

Lately we’ve had some down time at work when we’re waiting for people to get back to us or whatever and I’ve been reading books online. I finished off Prisoner of Zenda the other day and have started in on Pride and Prejudice. I probably shouldn’t be staring at the screen all day, but it’s better than surfing endlessly. I read pretty quickly too.

read some of them. The graphic novels have been the easiest to plow through, but I have also made progress on the regular old books too. I’ve been adding them to the pile for the swap on Saturday as I finish them off… We still have awhile before we move into the new place and I’m hoping I’ll get in more reading time before then.

When I went through my bookshelves decluttering, I found a bunch of books that I thought were worth reading, but maybe not worth moving. I have awhile before I need to move, so I’d like to get through a good chunk of them and offer them at my next book swap. I need to firm up how many I have and try to make a little progress each week.

Today I read three little chapbooks I’d bought. One was a chunk of Dracula that had been taken out of the manuscript, another featured a set of illustrators from the US+UK, and a third was a short comic book called “Snowmonkeys in Japan”.