So today I decided to gather all the books that I either haven't read or have started but not been able to finish due to lack of attention span or sudden onset of inability to focus and concentrate. I figured I probably had about a dozen or so books kicking around my bookshelves that needed to be read or finished. And by finished I mean re-read since my ability to retain anything I have read is minimal at best. I can't even remember what I read where I last left off when I am reading a book on a daily basis. I have to go back re-read the last few pages just to re-fresh my memory and get me up to speed. Although I often blame this on my wacky brain biochemistry, the fact that I am a skim reader probably doesn't help this. But then doesn't this go back to my attention span? (You can see how easily my brain can get off track!)
Anyways...back to gathering books. My plan: gather books, clear a shelf, line up said books and there would be my little library so when the urge to read hits, I'd be sure to have a few good books to choose from. What happened: I gathered up all those books. All 41 of them. (How did I come to accumulate so many unread books?) I then had to clear three shelves to make room for them all. I then had rearrange all the books from those three shelves back into other parts of the shelves, messing up my whole bloody system of books! My estimated 10 minute project took almost an hour. I had no desire to start reading after this.
I have calculated that I will need to read almost one book per week if I am to read all of these books this year. I have now lost any excuse at all to go to Chapters. Unless I just go to Chapters and don't buy anything. But we all know I can't leave Chapters without at least 3 new books. Hmmmm. Is this how I have accumulated all these unread books in the first place? Aaaagggghhhhh! Still no desire to start reading. The feeling I'm having is more like the feeling you got when you were handed your reading list on the first day of a class, and after quickly calculating that it was literally impossible to read it all in one semester, you would toss it in your bag and head to the pub for a beer.
p.s. - 3 posts in one day...I may use this when I fall behind! :)
2 comments:
oooh, I see you have Jodi Picoult on your list! She would be an excellent place to start if you are having reader's block :) I just finished reading "my sister's keeper" which Ange, you would LOVE! Not to lure you back to Chapter's though...
My suggestion would be to turf the David Adam Richards book (Mercy Among the Children)...I think I may have passed it on to you. For that I am truly sorry. It was the most depressing story I have ever read. Ever. And not in a poignant moving kind of way. Just seeing it your pile makes me feel sad and empty. You know how sometimes you watch a movie, and then think 'Well there's two hours I'm never going to get back'..well the book is the same. Only worse.
On the other hand Sue Townsend's 'Secret Diary of Adrian Mole' is wonderful. I loved it. And she has written several sequels to it which were great as well. Fun, quirky, real, etc..it's a fun easy read. PBS made a tv mini series of it ages ago which was really quite brilliant.
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