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autographedcatWell, 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?
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Date: 2004-03-08 08:10 pm (UTC)Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and parts of Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
The Callahan's Bar and Lady Sally's Place by Spider Robinson
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum. Getting back to basics solves many of life's problems.
Love by Leo Buscaglia. A reminder to myself about how to get mine out there when I really need to.
Diana Wynne Jones. Almost anything, but especially Archer's Goon, Deep Secret, and Howl's Moving Castle
Add a vote for the Garrett books by Glen Cook.
Almost anything that will make me laugh
And that usually takes me through a day or two of depression; GOT to expand this list, I see :-}
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Date: 2004-03-08 08:12 pm (UTC)All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum. Getting back to basics solves many of life's problems.
Oh good, I'm not the only one! *hug*
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Date: 2004-03-08 08:18 pm (UTC)