read everyday

and I read on the bus on the way home from practice.

Another few chapters down.

I am surprised I have gotten so much done each day,still it’s only day two. but what a good day two it has been. I am reading at least one chapter before zonking out for the night.

and i mean books. not magazines, not newspapaers, not online articles, not even ebooks, but actual, physical, material book, that you can touch and smell.

i guess the biggest problem is finding the time to do this, but i don’t want to kid myself – if i have enough time to fool around on the net, then i certainly have enough time to sit down with an actual book and a cup of tea, which is way more enjoyable, pleasant and relaxing.

i could read on the bus too, as it takes me a lot of time to get to work, but i often get motion sickness when i do this, so i will try to read for at least 20 minutes before going to sleep instead.

I reach towards the shelves of numerous books (organized alphabetically) in my bedroom, pull whichever sounds most appealing into my hands, plop down beside a poster of Frank Zappa and Alice Cooper, place humming head phones delicately into my ears, and escape into the mysterious worlds and anxious to be discovered characters hiding within the depths of the thousands of pages… sentences… words… letters… of a new book. I love the musty smell of the paper, the feeling of satisfaction when I read the last sentence, and the plethora of ideas my mind is free to contemplate until I pick up another.

I merely wish I had the time. School, family, and practices control my life, but I would much prefer to be reading.

I’m already a reader. I just want to read more often. I feel like I spend too much time on the internet now and I only read every once in a while. I also want to read more non fiction like history and biographies and I want to open up to other genres like plays and essays.I especially want to learn to read things that are boring to me and still retain the information that I read.

It turns out the alumni book club changed the book they are reading for next month and I haven’t yet picked up my library card. But I did decide to give in and buy a book that I’ve heard over and over is a fun, additive read-Twilight. I really didn’t think teen vampire fiction was for me, but I started reading it Thursday and am hooked-reading it whenever I can. It feels a bit like a guilty pleasure book (rather than something intellectually stimulating). But I think that’s exactly what I needed. I need to be caught up in a story and character emotion.
I’ve been surprised at how emotionally nurturing it’s been to read. I think it’s nice to put yourself in a characters shoes, think about how emotions they are feeling are comparable to things I’ve felt in my own life (not that I’ve fallen in love with many vampires in my day :)

Loving my Omnivore’s Dilemma, but this book, like all the other non-fiction food books I really love is so easy to put down and pick up at a much later date as it is information filled more so than a plot I need to follow. I think to really get into a habit of reading everyday I need to have a book that I can’t put down-that I need to find out what will happen next…

I’m sure I have some great novels in my box of books that are yet unpacked in my room, but I do often feel like since those are mine, I’ll get around to them sometime.

I think I need to go down to the library and get a library card and check something out. Perhaps the due date will help push me along. Some college alumni have a book club in my new town and I’ve been thinking about going. I think I should get the book they are reading for next book club and use that as inspiration to get through the book.

We are now in an amazingly established routine of reading Harry Potter as a family each night before we fall asleep! My 4 year old loves hearing us read before he falls asleep, I love reading the whole series straight through-it’s awesome-even if we only read a few pages, we do do it every night!

What I really want to do now is find time everyday that I read my own books. I should really just start small, like set aside 15 minutes each day that are reading time-perhaps my son and I can do that together-I want to increase time he looks at books and time we read books at his pre-reading level.

i’ve got a ton of books i want to read….