Reading and listening
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I continue to have trouble focusing on reading. I mean actual reading from a book.
In an attempt to re-corral my attention and recover some of that pleasure, I've
- Sworn off social media (we'll see how long that lasts...)
- Joined a silent reading party where twice a month we get together on Zoom and just read for two hours (a form of accountability)
- Got at least four very different books going (so that when it's reading time, I can pick what I'm in the mood for)
- Established a couple of comfortable and well-lighted places to read.
- Natalie Goldberg's Three Simple Lines (a lovely memoir and rumination on haiku)
- David Mitchell's Number9 Dream (long novel; I'm aiming to read all his novels in 2022)
- Ken Mogi's Awakening Your Ikigai (kind of a little philosophy/lifestyle guide)
Currently in progress:
- Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle (a caper/heist novel)
- Richard Tarnas's The Passion of the Western Mind (a huge survey of western philosophy)
- Sean Russell's Moontide and Magic Rise (a really long fantasy that I've been picking at for several months)
- Matthew Salesses's Craft in the Real World (on correcting some of the faults of the American MFA writing program)
How do others keep themselves reading?
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