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darkemeralds) wrote2011-09-26 04:59 pm
darkemeralds) wrote2011-09-26 04:59 pm
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Finding time to read
Stress, weakened eyesight, busy-ness, online activity, sore hands, fanfic, annoyance at technology, an internet-induced attention deficit, and probably a few other things have all conspired in recent years to curtail my reading of books.
Lately, though, I've sort of taken it up again, this book-reading thing.ravurian has heckled me into a bunch of it, actually going so far as to send me books.
I was gonna list a bunch of them here, but then I got all knotted up over fiction vs nonfiction and paper books vs ebooks vs audiobooks, and then I realized that if you count audiobooks, I've never stopped "reading", and if things like lectures and podcasts count as audiobooks, my absorption of material has been pretty good all along.
And of course, if you count fanfic, which...why would you not, really?...well, I read more than I thought I did.
But still, I was sitting up in bed last night with a nice bright reading light on, and a cat nearby, and a real book* in hands whose achy joints I was completely ignoring, and it was really nice.
*Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Witi Ihimaera.
Lately, though, I've sort of taken it up again, this book-reading thing.
ravurian has heckled me into a bunch of it, actually going so far as to send me books.I was gonna list a bunch of them here, but then I got all knotted up over fiction vs nonfiction and paper books vs ebooks vs audiobooks, and then I realized that if you count audiobooks, I've never stopped "reading", and if things like lectures and podcasts count as audiobooks, my absorption of material has been pretty good all along.
And of course, if you count fanfic, which...why would you not, really?...well, I read more than I thought I did.
But still, I was sitting up in bed last night with a nice bright reading light on, and a cat nearby, and a real book* in hands whose achy joints I was completely ignoring, and it was really nice.
*Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Witi Ihimaera.