Reading Material
The one good thing about taking a lot of time going to and from work is that I have time to read again. I have been trawling second hand bookshops, charity shops and table top sales looking for anything interesting. Of course, 90% is chick lit and Dan Brown novels but occasionally you find something really interesting.
I found another copy of Maya Angelou’s I Know Where The Caged Bird Sings which I was forced to read at school and again at uni… and which now 10 years later I am reading and it speaks to me in a different way. I’m still trying to figure out why the caged bird sings but I’m pretty sure I’m getting closer to the answer.
In my other hand I have William Manchester’s The Death of a President which is a meticulous account of the assasination of President John F. Kennedy. I love historical accounts, I love American history, I love non fiction and I love finding out about the alternative point of view. It seems that the Oswald shot JFK’ theory has become the alternative view in the maelstrom of theories about a shooter on the grassy knoll or the FBI/CIA/aliens from another planet etc etc did it.
The calm and methodical way he writes the horrific things is numbing for me at the moment and I have stacked up books to continue the effect… Avoiding? Me? Oh very much so.
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One of the many things on life that I don’t do enough of that I want to do more is read. But like those other things, I passively find ways to not have enough time.
I think today I’ll blame it on the interruptions. Yeah, that’s a good reason. Too many interruptions. I can blog and comment on blogs because I can do it in 2-5min chunks.
Real reading requires 30m or more at a time.
Right?
Comment by whall — October 6, 2008 @ 12:30 am
whal - Those damned interruptions! I get my reading on in 25 minute chunks but 30 is the desired amount!
Comment by bec — October 6, 2008 @ 10:21 pm