Sometimes I just can’t find anything good to read. That is a particularly comic statement for someone who spends every working day in a library. My colleagues always come up with suggestions, but nothing really gets me hooked. I end up reading political news magazines and suffering from an onslaught of current events. Then suddenly something clicks, and I am reading again.
Right now I’m reading several great books simultaneously. I’m listening to one in my car (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver), one that is a Hot Pick so I have to read it really fast since I think my week is already up (Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert), one that I had to put aside so I could deal with the Hot Pick issue (Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality by Pauline Chen), and one that I am reading because I am so entranced with watching the babies and toddlers at our Mother Goose on the Loose storytimes (What’s Going on in There: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot). Okay, so they are all nonfiction. Maybe I will read one of the El Dorado Hills staff picks and find a prolific fiction author that will keep me permanently out of my occasional reading funk.
Jeanne
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I'm with you. I love to have several books going at once. Usually I'll listen to one in my car as I go to and fro from work, I listen to another as I get ready for work in the a.m. and I have a special one that I read before I fall exhaustedly to sleep at night. Right now I am listening to Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs tonight by Alexandra Fuller and I'm reading an old favorite of mine, Peaceable Kingdom by Ardyth Kennelly. I figure why waste a moment's time with so many good books out there and not enough time in the day (or night) to read them all!!
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