tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post7420907365848439271..comments2023-06-14T07:03:19.543-05:00Comments on A Round Unvarnish'd Tale: The Lost Art (For Me) of ReadingCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817680463922038375noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-43617265771531829422012-01-18T08:49:06.956-06:002012-01-18T08:49:06.956-06:00Cheryl, I think they're talking about it becau...Cheryl, I think they're talking about it because of New Year's Resolutions and those book lists that come around each year. I've noticed it several times in the Christmas-to-Epiphany season. Maybe it's just really whomped on you this year where you blew it off in previous years.<br /><br />By the way, the stuff I'm reading for myself tends to be fluff. That's why my brain can handle it. :-) The work necessary to be reading Ivanhoe to Maggie ... hoo boy!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16307213773466556564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-28555841361502079302012-01-18T08:39:35.220-06:002012-01-18T08:39:35.220-06:00I got a Kindle last Mother's Day and my readin...I got a Kindle last Mother's Day and my reading has increased quite a bit. There are a ton of classics that are free for the Kindle. I've discovered authors I never heard of before. I've discovered that I really enjoy historical fiction. A couple of 19th century authors are GA Henty and Henry Rider Haggard.<br /><br />I still go the library and I have a ton of novels in my house -- I just keep plugging along. Some times I'm successful and other times FB takes over!<br /><br />Alex entered high school and I've read books that I missed because he's not a stronger reader and needs a helper at home when it comes to writing about what he's read. That's been a bonus. "We" just finished "Of Mice and Men" and "we" didn't like it.<br /><br />My Kindle keeps my list of books since that where I tend to complete a book.<br /><br />I carry it with me so I always have a book if I choose to read. <br /><br />I have never read The Hobbit either -- but I have the book. <br /><br />I have several friends in book clubs -- one club reads classics and they have been together for about 8 years and are reading book #80 this month. Most of the other book clubs that I know about read current books (Oprah style). Book groups are intriguing, but I'm not sure they are what I want either.<br /><br />Here's to reading a good book for pleasure!Mary Ellynhttp://www.lambertsonline.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-84301148267536863652012-01-17T07:43:17.082-06:002012-01-17T07:43:17.082-06:00Susan, I remember your sharing about your summer r...Susan, I remember your sharing about your summer reading and it sounds wonderful. I hope you are able to recapture that this summer.<br /><br />It seems like a lot of my friends are thinking/talking/writing about reading. Is it because it's New Year's Resolution time? Or is it just that thing where because you are thinking about something yourself you are more likely to notice when others are also?<br /><br />I am glad that when you can find the time you don't actually find it physically/mentally difficult to read. I do. My attention wanders so quickly. I have a hard time sitting still. This is why I have decided I have to work on this now rather than wait until it is easier to find the time. I'm afraid when I get to that place in life where there is more time I'll be unable to read at all anymore.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04817680463922038375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-34823160405360094352012-01-16T15:31:55.922-06:002012-01-16T15:31:55.922-06:00Me, me. You're talking to me.
I have not f...Me, me. You're talking to me. <br /><br />I have not found that it's mentally difficult to read. I know some of my friends have commented that it is for them. But I guess I'm exercising my brain with other [non-book] reading/editing projects that I'm not a complete puddle of mush.<br /><br />I know what put the nail in the coffin of my reading. It was Emily of New Moon. Well, it wasn't Lucy Maud Montgomery's fault. It was when things were getting increasingly busy in my life. I only made it through about 1/6 of the book in the three weeks I had it out from the library. So I renewed it. In the next three weeks, I read another chapter or two. I checked it out again, for my last shot at it [you can only renew something twice] and read another whole chapter. During that time, I had to keep backing up and rereading because it was so long between chapters that I forgot where I was. <br /><br />I cried.<br /><br />I didn't bother reading another book for years. When we went on vacation and I knew I would have loads of time to read, I tackled another book. It was lovely.<br /><br />Cheryl, what you said about having five minutes, but using several of those 5-min segments per day to make a half-hour for real reading, yup yup yup. I hear ya. But I don't seem to have the option of conglomerating those 5-min chunks into one 30-minute chunk. Maggie needs to ask questions. Bread must be kneaded; loads of laundry must be changed. I just can't seem to get it together.<br /><br />I did LOVE my picnic lunches at work. I read some books this summer. Nobody to interrupt. No tasks sitting there, waiting, stressing you out because you're neglecting them. Nothing to do on lunchbreak at work but STOP. Right now I'm catching up on some magazines, but I will go back to a book sooner or later.<br /><br />I feel your pain and share your loss. I can't put a big enough "ditto" onto this post.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16307213773466556564noreply@blogger.com