i am currently reading three books - - a sure sign of the apocalypse
I have not been a reader, really, for many years. Until last Christmas, I would have said "I'm not a reader", but since I've been reading in the last 7 months, I've had to change it. Really though, the only things I would read were
ESPN The Magazine and
Reader's Digest (which I have loved since I was a kid and my dad gives me a subscription every year, so don't make fun!).
At this very moment, I have bookmarks in these books:
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Trumpet, by Jackie Kay
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
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Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Yes,
Middlemarch, the bane of my existence, the embodiment of why I left grad school oh so many years ago. So, why on earth did I check it out of the library, especially when I have 1800+ pages of Neal Stephenson books sitting on my coffeetable, unread? Well, my friend Mel settled on it as
her favorite book to teach. I figured after 12 years, I'd give it another go. I have an ulterior motive for trying to get through it, though. More on that, later.