Books... check em out!
March 27th 2007 22:07
I am usually an avid reader, what I read though would probably make a for real intellectual vomit on his first edition Chaucer or something. I like a lot of different things to read, but nothing that will really make me smarter, unless I learn a new curse word or something. The types of books I love will never make me a refined person, and will never be accepted as a "good book" by anyone other than regular ole folks. Like me.
Sometimes though, man a book can just hit the spot. A book that you can't put down because it's just talking to you, and it's the most interesting thing that's talked to you in weeks. months years. A book that hits the spot like a box of McDonalds french fries. Like that bowl of baked beans I just polished off. (I needed the fiber ok?) Sometimes a book scratches an itch you didn't even know you HAD until you are done reading it.
I had stopped reading for awhile, reading had become almost a chore to me, and if anyone knows me... I hate chores. I belong to a book club, and the books I would get weren't very interesting (although I had chose them myself) and nothing called out to me. So, I stopped. This was when I got my laptop around Christmas time, and that has got to be one of the longest stretches of not reading I've ever done. Three months.
What's funny when you're an avid reader and then you go on a holiday from reading, is that you have to kind of start off slowly. Whet the appetite if you will. So, you pick something frivilous. A chick lit type book is what I usually go for. This will be enough to get my back into the swing of things. Then I'll start back up.
I also love when you go and pick out a book say because you're going on a trip. Like I did this past weekend. I saw a book by a guy that wrote the book that one of my favorite movies is based on (Nick Hornby... About a Boy) and picked it up (A Long Way Down) I was sure I would enjoy it, but in a read a bit here and there kind of way, not in a must stay up until three am sitting on the toilet in my hotel room, as not to disturb sleeping Tony with the light kind of way. As I'm reading, I am feeling full. By the end of the book, I feel satisfied, complete, the book going down like a good meal cooked by someone else.
Sometimes though, man a book can just hit the spot. A book that you can't put down because it's just talking to you, and it's the most interesting thing that's talked to you in weeks. months years. A book that hits the spot like a box of McDonalds french fries. Like that bowl of baked beans I just polished off. (I needed the fiber ok?) Sometimes a book scratches an itch you didn't even know you HAD until you are done reading it.
I had stopped reading for awhile, reading had become almost a chore to me, and if anyone knows me... I hate chores. I belong to a book club, and the books I would get weren't very interesting (although I had chose them myself) and nothing called out to me. So, I stopped. This was when I got my laptop around Christmas time, and that has got to be one of the longest stretches of not reading I've ever done. Three months.
What's funny when you're an avid reader and then you go on a holiday from reading, is that you have to kind of start off slowly. Whet the appetite if you will. So, you pick something frivilous. A chick lit type book is what I usually go for. This will be enough to get my back into the swing of things. Then I'll start back up.
I also love when you go and pick out a book say because you're going on a trip. Like I did this past weekend. I saw a book by a guy that wrote the book that one of my favorite movies is based on (Nick Hornby... About a Boy) and picked it up (A Long Way Down) I was sure I would enjoy it, but in a read a bit here and there kind of way, not in a must stay up until three am sitting on the toilet in my hotel room, as not to disturb sleeping Tony with the light kind of way. As I'm reading, I am feeling full. By the end of the book, I feel satisfied, complete, the book going down like a good meal cooked by someone else.
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Al Brunswick
Romance Writers
Comment by Tracy
Movies and Life
I love this phrase:
Sometimes a book scratches an itch you didn't even know you HAD until you are done reading it.
Tracy
Comment by Sandi