So, now, I'm 50, have a job that keeps me crazy busy, commute 30 miles each way, and am exhausted by the time the day is done. When do I read? Well, for a while, I wasn't. I was alarmed by my complete and utter lack of interest in reading, but figured I'd just go with it and it would come back.
It has!!! With a vengeance. I'm on this incredibly tight deadline at work, so this past week, amongst writing 4 different books, I read 4 books! Yea!
1. Rework - I read this book because I was told it was great. It was. This is not a "fun" book, it is a book about business stuff, and I swear to you, I read it in 2 evenings. It was fantastic, and I loved it. It was written by the guys who created Ruby on Rails.
2. The Art of Dancing in the Rain - OMG. Life lessons, words to live by, a story to put a tear in your eye. I adored this book. Positively adored it. Not telling you more, go read it.
3. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott - Seriously. I am the original Louisa May Alcott fan, so when I saw this title, I didn't have any choice. Again, adored it. It's a fictional story about Miss Alcott, based loosely on her biographies. I learned that she burned many of her notes and mail. She was that private. Wow.
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On the weight loss front, I'm in love with Nutrisystem. I've lost 16.5 pounds. Wow. I'm not even working at it, I swear! I eat my food, I sleep, I drink lots of water, walk some, and the weight falls off. How much better could it get?
That's my catch up for now. My friend Holly is doing this bloggin' thing. I guess I better get my own blog on and keep posting, huh?
A couple of weekends back, I went to Monterey with my camera and my friend Lyn. First road trip in the Mustang. Lots of photos, I'll share soon. (I need a bit of time to get them processed, and I'm SO tired of being on the computer by evening... with the deadline. but soon. I promise!)
-Make it a fabulous day and read a good book! (or a bad one, whatever, just read!)
I feel all...inspirational! I, too, have gone on TWO long "dry spells" of not reading. "Alarming" barely scratches the surface, when you've grown up an avid reader, and read like other people eat: regularly and in copious amounts. The first time, it was a vow to read Atlas Shrugged and a desire to catch up on missed childhood readings: Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird, that broke the floodgates and got me reading again. The second time I "quit" was when I quit smoking; reading had become so intrinsically linked with sitting on my back porch and lighting up, that I almost couldn't bear to do either, once I gave up the smokes. That was in 2006, and it was just this year I started to read lots and for pleasure, again.
ReplyDeleteInformation overload is definitely a killer. One way I combat an occasional aversion to "too many words" is to grab a camera and get out into the sunshine. Take some pictures and express yourself through what you choose to capture visually - how you choose to compose the shot and how you manipulate it later (if at all). There's still a creative urge lurking in there, but I think it just gets overwhelmed and drowned out by other things, like work.