read for pleasure more often

Books I’d like to read this summer:

(1) This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(2) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
(3) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
(4) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
(5) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
(6) Siddhartha by Hermann Hess
(7) The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
(8) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
(9) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

I’ve started alternating reading and knitting during my lunch break – I enjoy both, but have to make time for them! Right now my work book is “Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet” and it’s great. The chapters are pretty short, so I can read one or two rather quickly. Last week it wasn’t too hot, so I sat outside and enjoyed the sunshine with my book. Good times!

to do this, I started a book club. So far it’s worked. We’ve read Man Camp and Speak. We are currently reading “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” and will read “The Historian” next. It’s opening up my mind.

I made this a goal this year, and so far I’m doing well. I’ve read The Time Traveler’s Wife, Lovely Bones, and now I’m reading one of the Shopaholic books for fun.

On my “to read” list:
Prep
Garlic and Sapphires
The Devil in the White City
I am Charlotte Simmons

after reading mill on the floss by george elliot for a course, i have just started middlemarch. i have three other book i want to get done before the semester gets crazy.

I currently read for school a whole bunch – but I’d love to take time and read for my own pleasure while not in class (like now during winter break)

but I often don’t devote enough time to reading. Hopefully I can change this.