tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post5752523194208819931..comments2024-03-26T21:23:44.804-07:00Comments on Bibliomama: Mondays on the Margins: Reading: It's Possible I've Been Doing it WrongBibliomamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11825424183978181238noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-51823486331276668262015-09-25T06:07:42.683-07:002015-09-25T06:07:42.683-07:00I would stockpile books, too, if my husband hadn&#...I would stockpile books, too, if my husband hadn't banned me from buying books. This ban is a very good thing for our lives. Now I just keep a long list of recommended books. I'll never have time to read them all, but I like savoring the list. And I have also put off reading a really good book because I am just saving it for later, for when I really deserve it. Or for when I have no other obligations. Common Household Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03715969218648104267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-85563673935391608382015-09-22T20:13:25.500-07:002015-09-22T20:13:25.500-07:00^ not that boots replace jeans, because they don&#...^ not that boots replace jeans, because they don't. Of course.clarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12944084489177974511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-51575642487847748402015-09-22T20:12:23.259-07:002015-09-22T20:12:23.259-07:00Oh this is nice! I'm happy for you. The things...Oh this is nice! I'm happy for you. The things you enjoy can just be enjoyable, without making them a reward or a punishment. I decided recently that life is too short to buy clothes I think are cute but sort of outside my scope of style, put them on and then take them off in favour of jeans every single day. Yesterday I wore my new boots, and it was good. It was just boots.clarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12944084489177974511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-44367962061911552592015-09-22T15:03:34.866-07:002015-09-22T15:03:34.866-07:00You Read Girl! AND enjoy. I have a similar thing w...You Read Girl! AND enjoy. I have a similar thing where if I have an amazing book I don't let myself pick it up till the end of the day. Even if I have nothing to do.<br />That's ridiculous isn't it?Ms. Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15688062262144014969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-47520679326407727622015-09-22T09:04:16.649-07:002015-09-22T09:04:16.649-07:00YES. Life is too short not to read what you want e...YES. Life is too short not to read what you want exactly when you want. I have a tendency to stockpile books - my MIL gives me basically everything on my Christmas list - wait, by that, I mean I make a list of books and she gives them to me for Christmas - and for some reason I think I need to make those eight books last all year. So I don't just read them all at once, I hoard them. I need a book for vacation, I'll think. I need one for this or that. Apparently I forget that I have a library at my disposal and I don't need to squirrel them all away. <br /><br />Semi-related tangent - that "you've been doing it wrong" is such a hot thing these days I bet you're going to get tons of pageviews. I have a recipe like that and it's constantly getting pageviews and the kind of controversy you'd expect from a tomato sauce recipe.Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15212465957211363245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-14946812977267367672015-09-22T08:15:04.587-07:002015-09-22T08:15:04.587-07:00Yay! I totally support this. I am at the stage of ...Yay! I totally support this. I am at the stage of life now when I want to read stuff I *like*, and I just do not see the point of wasting time on stuff that I do not really enjoy. I should want to sneak my book to the dinner table, or waste away precious hours when I should be sleeping or working because I couldn't put it down. I've learned that if I get a book from the library and it doesn't grab me - I just JUST RETURN IT. Unread! Totally unthinkable in my youth.Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07478446000443341527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-67486043352269843712015-09-22T07:59:31.450-07:002015-09-22T07:59:31.450-07:00Ok, so first of all, because I can't write any...Ok, so first of all, because I can't write anything without including at least one completely irrelevant tangent, I just had to tell you that after clicking on your post in Facebook I flipped back to find that FB had helpfully offered up these "related links":<br /><br />How to Eat Sushi: You've Been Doing it Wrong<br /><br />This is everything you've been doing wrong your whole life: What connects packing, cooking bacon and flossing?<br /><br />I never fail to add something to my reading queue when I come to visit, and look! Now I have three new things! (I also added The Cricket in Times Square to GoodReads. I can learn about sushi AND bacon while I wait for the elevator). <br /><br />So, um, what was I going to say? Oh yeah - YAY for epiphanies! Yay yay YAY! I've recently (almost) stopped beating myself up for re-reading favourites about a gazillion times. Because frig, it's your (reading) life, do what makes you happy. I've never been good about reading things I'm not enjoying. I don't think I managed a whole chapter of The Great Gatsby in highschool. I recently dragged my ass all the way through The Goldfinch, and let's just say that the Pulitzer committee and I will have to agree to disagree (I think you liked it too... oops, sorry). I envy the people who loved it, it's nice to love things. I would have loved to have loved it. Especially after having spent so much of my LIFE reading the damn thing.<br /><br />I think I had a point, but I can't remember what it is now. <br /><br />But yay!Sashahttp://ramblingnotebook.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-5066026099977388492015-09-22T07:46:47.848-07:002015-09-22T07:46:47.848-07:009/14/07, if you're interested. It's a favo...9/14/07, if you're interested. It's a favorite of mine.StephLovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03888019478250380270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-61446685246300005712015-09-22T04:11:00.677-07:002015-09-22T04:11:00.677-07:00When Noah was in first grade he pitched a tremendo...When Noah was in first grade he pitched a tremendous fit one day when he thought we'd read too much Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ("a book I like so much") on a day when it didn't count for reading log. He thought he'd run out of books he liked before the end of the school year. I wrote a blog post about it.StephLovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03888019478250380270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102491209284064200.post-76721838301911224452015-09-21T16:16:47.362-07:002015-09-21T16:16:47.362-07:00It's so strange when you realize your own twis...It's so strange when you realize your own twisted subconscious reasons for doing something. And by "you" I obviously mean "me," because today at therapy I realized that I refuse to treat myself when I'm depressed and anxious, like I don't deserve it because I'm a bad person for feeling that way. Huge lightbulb moment. <br />I totally understand the "hoarding books in case I really NEED to read them" impulse, though it isn't mine. I get upset looking at my TBR pile when I'm not doing well because I can't enjoy almost all reading then, and I get upset that I won't be able to read all those lovely books that are too dark for Those Times. Time to remind myself that I couldn't read All The Books anyway, even if I read 8 hours a day.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374802587322217417noreply@blogger.com