I know that in college we all had to read more than one book at a time, but do you ever do so willingly now?
It was not easy to obtain a copy of The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp (you know--what The Sound of Music is based on), but through intra-library loan, I got one. Only problem is that I can only have it until January 14.
Which wouldn't be a problem, but I have had George Orwell's 1984 checked out for several weeks now while I was reading something else, and my renewals on it have run out. It is due January 13!
And I want to read them BOTH. But I am a PROcrastinator.
Solution: Read one aloud to the children each day and the other one by myself, usually after kids' bedtimes.
Can you guess which is the "read aloud" book?
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Friday, January 6, 2017
Come read with me in 2017!
Happy New Year!!
Just like most of us, I have plenty of potential New Year's resolutions--lose weight, exercise more, eat healthy, etc.--but (also like most of us) I am not overly optimistic about keeping them.
So I came up with something that is not only good for me, but actually might be doable. READ more!
Not very original, I know, but it's better than just resigning my lazy self to giving up and wasting a few more hours on Angry Birds or Candy Crush. And my resolve to read more has made me decide to keep record of it here on my rather dusty blog. Which means I will WRITE more, too! Win, win.
So here goes:
The first book I am reading (or rather finishing, as I started it during Christmas) is Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein. Actually, I am re-reading it. I first read it about 25 years ago, shortly after getting married when I was on a Heinlein kick. It's a fast paced book and one of his best.
The odd thing about reading it now, as opposed to before the age of Internet and cell phone cameras, is how amusing the technology is. It takes place in 2007, and you have space travel with colonies that have lived and died on Venus, but recordings of interviews are on "spools." The communications between the federal government and state governments relies on local transmissions, thereby causing all kinds of mayhem when the aliens interfere. But cars can fly!
Next up: The Story of the Trapp Family Singers and 1984.
Just like most of us, I have plenty of potential New Year's resolutions--lose weight, exercise more, eat healthy, etc.--but (also like most of us) I am not overly optimistic about keeping them.
So I came up with something that is not only good for me, but actually might be doable. READ more!
Not very original, I know, but it's better than just resigning my lazy self to giving up and wasting a few more hours on Angry Birds or Candy Crush. And my resolve to read more has made me decide to keep record of it here on my rather dusty blog. Which means I will WRITE more, too! Win, win.
So here goes:
The first book I am reading (or rather finishing, as I started it during Christmas) is Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein. Actually, I am re-reading it. I first read it about 25 years ago, shortly after getting married when I was on a Heinlein kick. It's a fast paced book and one of his best.
The odd thing about reading it now, as opposed to before the age of Internet and cell phone cameras, is how amusing the technology is. It takes place in 2007, and you have space travel with colonies that have lived and died on Venus, but recordings of interviews are on "spools." The communications between the federal government and state governments relies on local transmissions, thereby causing all kinds of mayhem when the aliens interfere. But cars can fly!
Next up: The Story of the Trapp Family Singers and 1984.
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