read voraciously

I recently read Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy,

The Visit – strange play

Rules for Revolutionaries – Guy Kawasaki (My first business book, so that cherry has been popped. It was slightly inspiring, slightly informative, a bit silly and redundant in parts. I definitely learned some things from it, but also wander what my opinion will be of it later once I have read more of these types of books.)

I started Death Comes to the Archbishop, but then misplaced it and am now reading 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez and also a math book – want to be in school again soon.

I have never felt more of a desire to read coupled with such a lack of time. Naturally, the more I have to fill it with, the more Lifetime rides precious and fleeting.

I am in the middle of too many books. That needs to change! Ok, but I did get some good reading in recently, on a science fiction foray – Dune, most of the Foundation series and Ender’s Game.

If you have not read Ender’s Game you are really missing out.

I just need to get me some fiction.

I am reading Franny and Zooey. It is my favorite book. Or was. I am rereading to remember why. Picking a favorite book is like picking a favorite child, if a favorite child was composed of hundreds of other favorite children, broken down into groupings of favorite children that each left an impression or not and contained punctuation. I resented my Senior Amer Lit teacher, forcing me to write my Final essay on which piece we had read over four months had, “changed my life.” I was spiteful about it, actually. Nathaniel Hawthorne did not move me. But I have to admit, the possibility lives. I read Atlas Shrugged rounded up a decade ago, and I was talking about building railroads today.

and will always do this

and I keep buying books. For some reason, I haven’t been in the mood to read the history/non-fiction/literary fiction on my shelves, I want chicklit and chicklit only. Perhaps French Existentialism has ruined me, scaring me away from anything profound. I read alot but I feel like I am not really enjoying it. I need to read the books on people’s wishlist at paperbackswap.com so I can send them out and clear space for hmmm….more books!!

I am reading the biography of John Adams by David McCullough. It is incredible. I have been reading it religiously for almost two weeks now, am only about 2/3 through, and have commit ed myself to rereading it when done. It may of course just be my current state of mind, but to my recollection I have never read a book more informing and inspirational.

Reading is one of my very favorite things.

I will never complete this goal, but it is a great one to pursue. This is a building block for so many things in my life!