There just isn’t enough time in life to read all the books I want to read. There are so many that are already on my lists (actual written lists in multiple places and that ever-evolving one in my head) and yet I seem to add more to these lists every day.
I’m a fast reader, but I’m not fast enough.
I think I need to go on a vacation where I just bring a crap ton of books, and plow through them. On a beach. With a cocktail.
No, a drink (several, preferably). Not the movie.
That sounds like a recipe for getting a lot of quality reading done. (<– sarcasm)
Anyway, given this long list of books I have, it is doubly frustrating that I’ve been in a bit of a book funk. Nothing I have read in the past couple months has really grabbed me. Nothing has been terrible either, so that’s even more frustrating.
But, I think I am finally back in the game.
I finished another book on Monday, so I headed to the library yesterday. When I was checking out that book on the bottom there, the woman saw that I had THREE books on hold that I’d requested recently.
SCORE!
Yes, I was tempted to start the Casual Vacancy instantly, but the 503 pages kind of scared me off. My mood wasn’t much for starting in a hefty book like that, so instead, I opted for a smaller one.
Ahem. That’s graphic novel to you. It isn’t merely a comic.
I haven’t read many graphic novels. In fact I’ve only read three and they were a trilogy and I only read the first one for a book club I was in.
I wasn’t happy about the selection and I was embarrassed to read it in public but the first was so good I read the second and the third and then thought I’d get all into reading more. But I never did until yesterday.
Read my review of Anya’s Ghost here.
Quickie review: It was awesome. It was fast. It was exactly what I wanted to read. And I’m still thinking about it 12 hours after finishing it.
The book I finished on Monday was Catalyst. I’ve read a couple other books by Young Adult author extraordinaire, Laurie Halse Anderson, and even though I said I was taking a YA break…..I lied.
Read my review of Catalyst here.
Oh, right. The graphic novel is also a Young Adult book.
Maybe it’s time I suck it up and start that 500 page book that just a couple weeks ago I couldn’t wait another second for.
I’m on it.
What’s the last great book you read?
Wow- I’m envious of your book line-up! I’ll be interested to hear what you think about “It Starts With Food” That is one of the ones on my to-read too…(say that sentence 3 times fast) Our libraries here in Knoxville don’t seem to get the paleo books very often. I may have to buy it.
Happy reading.
Oh- last great book I read? It has been quite a while- I think that I am in a book slump too. Right now I’m reading Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell and it is interesting- I just can’t stay awake in the evenings so I read about 2 paragraphs and then crash!
we don’t have a beach, but we do have a lake and it’s 80F. just sayin
Just finished The Cutting Season (Attica Locke) today. I don’t usually go for thrillers, but this was a really good book.
I just picked up the Age of Miracles from the library yesterday. I’m like 873 on the list for the Casual Vacancy…
confession: i enjoy graphic novels and i don’t really read anything else. however, it’s been a long time since that has happened too!
You impress me so much! I’m an insanely slow reader, so I don’t love it as much as I should!
I guess I can’t judge you for reading young adult novels; I’m reading Little House in the Big Woods right now. Back in Mackenzie I read The Hidden Life of Otto Frank; I really enjoyed learning a lot of details I never thought about while reading the diary of Anne Frank. When I get more settled I will have a lot of books lined up.
That first sentence – YES.
I just finished The Yellow Birds; please read it. Also, Still Alice.
Also Blankets. It’s a graphic novel. About adolescents coming of age IN THE MIDWEST. Built for you girl!
I’ll be interested to see what you think of It Starts with Food. I read it over the summer and liked it…mostly. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking for me as I’m sure it won’t be for you either.
I finished the second book of The Hunger Games last week and loved it. I’m so bummed that I can only get one Kindle book a month with Prime so I have to wait until November for third one. I may break down and spend the $5 or $6 for the third one. I mean when a book ends with “There is no District 12″ how am I expected to wait full two weeks. And what about Peeta?!?! Yes, I’m going nuts over a teen fiction book!
I’ve read a few graphic novels..I like to read them on the basin.
*shrug*
little snippets.
ANY – one of the last good books I read (I’m in a weird streak) …i liked Drop Dead Healthy. Fast. Humorous. Interesting. I really liked it.