I’ve really jumped back into reading in the months that I’ve been living back with my parents. I’m glad that I started again, because I had forgotten how much that I loved being lost in a marvelous story! They can take me away from all my current problems, and into a world that I would never get to experience otherwise. Movies are similar, but they just can’t beat the books.
I just finished The Great Gatsby and it was a wonderful read! Can’t wait for the movie at Christmas! I still need to go watch the version with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow too! I like to complete my media rounds!
You could erase the wine part of the sentence, because I can’t drink without having the hangover by the 4th sip in, but books do eat up much of my time!
True story
We are thinking of remodeling the downstairs room so that I can have built in shelves on the wall like this!
Add in some kitty snuggles, and things are just about perfect!
I just started reading Spirit Junkie, and while I love the concept that is presented, I can’t say I’m adoring the immense repetition. I’m definitely looking forward to doing some of the exercises and hopefully dulling down the fear in my mind though!
What books have you read lately?
xoxo,
Annie
Just got done the 50 Shades trilogy and I’m now reading “A Moveable Feast” by Hemingway. I ordered it after seeing “Hemingway and Gellhorn” on HBO. Only other Hemingway I’ve read? The Old Man and the Sea when I was in High School (graduated in ’75!). True about movies – saw Hunger Games and loved the book a lot more.
Oh my goodness, what am I not reading right now??
I’m re-reading several Peter S. Beagle short story compilations, and also Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown (PSB and RMcK are my top two favorite authors ever, so I’d recommend anything by either of the very highly! RMcK also has ME, incidentally.) I also recently finished two non-fiction books, one about the American Dustbowl called The Worst Hard Times, by Timothy Egan. The other is called Demons in the Age of Light, by Whitney Robinson, and is a memoir of the author’s psychic break. Both are FASCINATING and so engrossing.
And I don’t know about you, but it helps me to read about people in worse situations than I’m in. Like, everyone was starving and barely eking by in The Worst Hard Times, Aerin has to go try and kill a huge dragon by herself in Hero, etc. When I’m feeling terrible, I need to read about people who had it worse off and still made it through
Sarah Allegra, I also love reading about people in worse situations than I am in that also made it through! I’ll have to check out those authors as I’ve never heard of either before!!
Gerri, if you like Hemingway, I HIGHLY recommend The Sun Also Rises. I haven’t read A Moveable Feast though, so I really should do that! Thank you so much for your suggestions!!