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autographedcat) wrote2004-03-08 07:48 pm
autographedcat) wrote2004-03-08 07:48 pm
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Reading
Well, I didn't get much reading done last week, for a variety of reasons. I've decided that I'm going to set aside one hour every weekday, from 6:30 to 7:30pm, as my designated reading time. I won't be on the computer or watching TV or listening to music during that hour, for so much as I can help it.
Continued working my way through Bill Bryson's excellent Short History of Nearly Everything, reading several passages, and indeed one entire chapter, aloud to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitanzi. She's joked by the time she gets to read the book, which is of interest to you, I'll have already read most of it to her. :) I've got a little less than 150 pages left in it. Also continued with Dan Savage's Savage Love, which is currently in the bathroom and being read two and three pages at a time.
Saturday, I was in need of comfort reads, and so idly picked up an old favourite, John Christopher's The White Mountains. This is the first book in the series of novels that the BBC television programme The Tripods was based, though I first encountered it as a serialized comic in Boy's Life magazine as a kid. I read the entire book in pretty much one sitting, and would probably have continued on to the second book in the series, except that I don't actually have a copy. Must remember to go check out ABE Books after payday.
As I mentioned elsewhere,telynor gave me a spiffy hardcover copy of Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale, which reminds me that it's been about a year since the last time I read it and I should add it to the queue.
When you're feeling down, or distressed, or lonely, or out of sorts, what are your favourite comfort reads?
Continued working my way through Bill Bryson's excellent Short History of Nearly Everything, reading several passages, and indeed one entire chapter, aloud to
kitanzi. She's joked by the time she gets to read the book, which is of interest to you, I'll have already read most of it to her. :) I've got a little less than 150 pages left in it. Also continued with Dan Savage's Savage Love, which is currently in the bathroom and being read two and three pages at a time.Saturday, I was in need of comfort reads, and so idly picked up an old favourite, John Christopher's The White Mountains. This is the first book in the series of novels that the BBC television programme The Tripods was based, though I first encountered it as a serialized comic in Boy's Life magazine as a kid. I read the entire book in pretty much one sitting, and would probably have continued on to the second book in the series, except that I don't actually have a copy. Must remember to go check out ABE Books after payday.
As I mentioned elsewhere,
telynor gave me a spiffy hardcover copy of Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale, which reminds me that it's been about a year since the last time I read it and I should add it to the queue.When you're feeling down, or distressed, or lonely, or out of sorts, what are your favourite comfort reads?