Joining the Spring Reading Challenge put forth by Seasonal Soundings :
For ChocLit Guild:
Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis)
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
I Dared to Call Him Father (Bilquis Sheikh)
Just For Me:
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare--multiple children's versions)
Hotel Pastis (Peter Mayle)
DailyLit.com:
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Evenings:
A Year with C. S. Lewis
Lord Bless My Child (William & Nancie Carmichael)
With Levi:
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)--get this one finished, finally!
The Cricket in Times Square (George Selden)
The Twenty-One Balloons (William Pene du Bois)
Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
The Saturdays (Elizabeth Enright)
My lists are a bit shorter than I would like, but I have to be realistic. This just isn't the season of my life for hours of reading by the warm fire. However, I am trying to be more deliberate about my time and what I want to accomplish. Reading is an investment that has lasting value.
Care to join us?
For ChocLit Guild:
Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis)
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
I Dared to Call Him Father (Bilquis Sheikh)
Just For Me:
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare--multiple children's versions)
Hotel Pastis (Peter Mayle)
DailyLit.com:
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Evenings:
A Year with C. S. Lewis
Lord Bless My Child (William & Nancie Carmichael)
With Levi:
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)--get this one finished, finally!
The Cricket in Times Square (George Selden)
The Twenty-One Balloons (William Pene du Bois)
Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
The Saturdays (Elizabeth Enright)
My lists are a bit shorter than I would like, but I have to be realistic. This just isn't the season of my life for hours of reading by the warm fire. However, I am trying to be more deliberate about my time and what I want to accomplish. Reading is an investment that has lasting value.
Care to join us?
5 comments:
ChocLit guild~~~I love it!!
I read _I Dared to Call Him Father_ not too long ago. Beautiful testimony. Let me know how you like it. Welcome to blog-dom!
Poiema
Thanks for the welcome!
Would you mind sharing how you fit in time to read so many books? I feel like it takes me forever to get through a book right now. I do read several at a time, but if you wouldn't mind sharing when you read throughout the day. I find I just get so busy with other things or get distracted when I try to read. Thanks!
I read when I really should be doing other things, LOL! I read while nursing. I read for a little while before I go to sleep. When I get toward the end of a book, particularly when it is a good one, I read during the day every chance I get. :) I do have a few books going at once right now, but I think I actually get more read if I do one at a time. I get into it more quickly and really want to read it. I also know that I have other books on my list to get to. It helps that I'm a fast reader. If the books are long, though, like David Copperfield :), it takes much, much longer to finish!
I wish I had more great advice. Just making my 'intentional reading list' and being more deliberate helps me. It always seems like something else is falling through the cracks if I'm doing well at one thing. Don't ask how clean my house is (or isn't)!! Can someone tell us how to get *everything* done well? :)
I am thinking that you are right about reading one book at a time. When I do that, I do seem to move through it more quickly so I can get on to my next book.
Being intentional about reading is another key. I am trying to do that and make reading more of a priority.
I think that sometimes I get caught up in wanting to do it all. That is not realistic. Like you wrote, there will always be something falling through the cracks. And as long as the important things are getting done, then that can be okay.
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