apparently, there is a genetic component to this, so thanks to the Sommers side and the long line of just-for-fun readers. i can remember as a kid i would read after "lights out" by scooting to the end of my bed, getting just enough light from the hallway to barely see the printed words ("sneak reading"....call me a rebel). and after getting married and falling head over heels in love with Newport Beach Public Library, i would read each and every day over my lunch break and while my graduate student husband was doing homework. All this to say, it was a loss after having Sadie and realizing that any extra moment i had would be spent drooling into my pillow trying to catch up on sleep and NOT diving into a great book.
enter one of my favorite kitchen appliances:
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| Kitchen CD player/radio |
not exactly earthshattering, i know, but thanks to a great selection of CD/audio books at the library, i'm officially back on the booklovers bandwagon. i spend hours in our kitchen, and can finish GIANT biographies (my favorite) in no time at all. love it.
currently, finishing up a biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt. if you think Obamadrama is a socialist, you should check out this dude. :)
any other dorks out there, willing to offer up a good book suggestion?? (Jenniken, i know you're reading this, and i expect a good one!)
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that's not what your kitchen looked like when we left!!! excuse me, you owe us an update look of your house!!!
have you read John Adam's biography? I listened to it on tape driving cross country in the summer of 2003 and it was very interesting.
I love books on cd! They are great motivation for getting things done you don't want to do -cleaning, exercising, etc!
i don't know how high-tech this device is, but i love to listen to npr's "this american life" when i drive long distances. you can get the podcasts for free. they're not books, but they're hour-long themed vignettes. anecdotes, interviews, interesting stories. i love it!
I highly reccomend anything by David Foster Wallace, especially anything from his collection, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." He is a spectacularly funny and sensitive writer and finds fascinating ideas about humanity in the most seemingly inane subjects (like getting sent by Harper's magazine on an all-expenses paid cruise, or going to the IL state fair). He is my favorite author in the whole life.
Good grief, you have a BLOG? We seriously need to catch up.
It has been my largest goal since Kaylie was born to get these two on the same schedule so that I can READ again! I think that in 20 years that is the thing I will enjoy most about my new 'free' time :) Because of Kyle's recent ventures into China I've been reading a book by Peter Hessler. I'm reading his first book he wrote while in China teaching English lit at a college in a town where they hadnt had white people for at least 4 decades. Interesting. He is a great writer, fun to read and super informative. That is my latest :)
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