reviving the ‘book worm’ in me
I have always complained that i haven’t done some decent book reading since I got pregnant with Raine. I mean reading to feed my soul or something, he he. I think all I’ve really read since then are stuff on parenting, pregnancy and babies. Then when I started blogging, it has gotten even worse! Who needs books when everything you can read online?!
But I really want to read books again.
(I am not counting 7 books of Harry Potter in this category, okay? No offense to JK Rowling. I soooo loved the way she turned around her life and wrote Harry Potter instead. Who would have known, right? Besides, my whole family loves HP, the books and the movies too. My younger brothers who I guess has never read a novel their whole lives, has picked up the HP books with enthusiasm and read all 7 from cover to cover. How can I not love JK Rowling, if only for that?)
I’m just hungry for some real reading. You know the kind that doesn’t include the words antioxidant, stem cells, flavonoids, metastatic or autoimmune in any paragraph or sentence!
Of course in the last 5 years, books are a luxury. I was buying diapers, milk, baby food; paying the nanny, the rent…you know, stuff — far more basic than books to feed my soul. Ha ha ha. Besides, I just couldn’t find a real quiet time all those years.
Anyway, my amazon shopping cart are filled with books I have been wanting to read. Ready for checkout. Then my PC monitor went kaput. I had to buy a new one. Again, goodbye books. Stay in the shopping cart longer. Maybe next month? I really hope so.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:26 am
ako din, miss ko na ang novels. before we moved here medyo nakaka-singit singit pa ako ng ilang pages from a novel before bedtime. ngayon? tambak na ang librong ditong di ko pa nababasa. bili pa rin kasi ng bili kahit wala namang panahong magbasa!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:30 am
i read at least one novel a day. di ko binibili. maganda ang library dito, high tech. unlimited and puwede mong hiramin. you can browse sa website nila, tapos , kuha ka na lang kuha pagdating doon para pick-upin at self-check out. Cloth bound pa. pag bago at best seller, 14 days no renewal. pag luma na indefinite.
pag-oras na ng soli, they e-mail you. am reading
now the novels of deavrey, the author of the Bone Collector which starred Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington. galing.
sa sf noon wala akong time magbasa, bili lang ako ng bili. isang volume ng agatha christie, pinamigay ko na.
buti na lang ang kapatid ko dito mahilig ding magbasa. scifi naman ang kaniya at mga computer books.
Kahit saang kanto may libro, pati sa bathroom.
tagal tuloy lumabas. nagbabasa. hehehe
June 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
ruth: i so can relate pag may baby, kung puede lang pagtulog ng bata matulog ka din. he he he.
cathy: INGGIT ako. grabe. hmmm…bago matapos ang 2008, I SHOULD be reading again. i’ll keep that author in mind. thanks. ganda yung Bone Collector eh.