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Why not just devote all of your attention to a single book? Do you believe that reading more than one book may take away from some of the nector you may get out of devoting all of your attention and thoughts to a single work? Hey, if it helps... maybe I should be getting started on one or two more books.
I read two books at once. I have an upstairs book and a downstairs book.
I read in bed, of course, don't we all? Unless, it becomes a very gripping book, then I read it upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber.
I sometimes become so gripped,that I read whilst I'm ironing.
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Sometimes I go on streaks where I read all the books by an author I have decided to like that I can find, or parallel streaks with two or three favorite authors' books going on at once. Right now I have three parallel streaks of authors.
I am on maybe my fifth or sixth reading of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. I usually think it is my favorite book by her, and although I have read it several times before, I still had to set it down last night and laugh out loud for a minute over Catherine's exclamation to Mr. Tilney, "Your housekeeper is not really Dorothy!" a line that will crack me up no matter how many times I read it.
Streak two is Sheri S. Tepper. I recently finished Gibbon's Decline and Fall which I enjoyed even more than I had The Gate to Women's Country or A Plague of Angels. I'm not one hundred percent certain that I would always agree with her about everything, but her books leave such gracious space for that within them that I don't care.
Streak three has just begun so freshly that I am going to have to look up this author's name to get the next book because I've forgotten it already. The title of the first one was Death Comes as Epiphany and it is a murder mystery/romance set in the contemporary France of Heloise and Abelard. I think her name is Sharan Newman. The historic setting and plot aren't completely the way it was, I'm afraid, but interesting and vividly good enough a story for me not to care about that, either.
I will probably be reading books by these three women for a little while now.
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I have to say I adore Sherri Tepper. The first book of her's that I read was Gate to Women's Country. I read it during a patch of watching my women friends get run over by the men in their lives and Tepper became a touchstone. I haven't read all of her stuff but so far I think I have liked The Fresco best. I have never been able to think of "ugly disease" without laughing.
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Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
As an author I read for three reasons. Pleasure, pure escape and Ideas. Sword Song is the fourth in Cornwell's historical fiction series on the Saxons and the period of formation when the Saxons were trying to expel the Danes and Norsemen. You may know Cornwell by his Richard Sharpe series. I highly recommend them all.
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I have to say I adore Sherri Tepper. The first book of her's that I read was Gate to Women's Country. I read it during a patch of watching my women friends get run over by the men in their lives and Tepper became a touchstone. I haven't read all of her stuff but so far I think I have liked The Fresco best. I have never been able to think of "ugly disease" without laughing. _________________
I've always found it rather exciting to remember that there is a difference between what we experience and what we think it means.
And I have to say I am growing to adore Mary Lupin! Where have you been all my life? I think you and I have many a pleasant and stimulating book and life discussion in our future. (At least I hope so.) I have been catching up on your posts here that have been taking place while I was inactive and I am convinced that you have much to teach me. I also have had several life-changing dreams, like the one that caused you to choose your user name, an account I thoroughly enjoyed, so I feel a distinct sense that we might share other affinities. What books are your favorites that I might not have read yet?
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I finished the Hitchhiker's Guide and am now reading Riptide by Preston and Child. It is pretty good so far. Usually I read non-fiction but am on a run of fiction right now. I need to escape--lol!
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My mother will have to tell me to stop reading and come eat. Since I'm like this I have a hard time reading 2 books at once. Right now I'm reading A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly and The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
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I also have had several life-changing dreams, like the one that caused you to choose your user name, an account I thoroughly enjoyed, so I feel a distinct sense that we might share other affinities. What books are your favorites that I might not have read yet?
Goodness. Bet you hug people too.
I was taught how to interpret dreams as a young person and have been involved in that since so I tend to have a very strong dream life. I think it is the original source of my love and admiration of metaphor.
As for books...I am 52 and have been reading voraciously since I was about 4. It would take me a very long time to remember all the books that have been important in my life. I also read a rather diverse set of things. For example, one critical book in my childrood was Abbott's primer on Geometry. I also loved mythology. And Mao's Little Red Book. My "imaginary friend" was Van Nostrum's Scientific Encyclopedia (I was 7 I think). Then there is ethnography and aesthetics and cognitive science and poetry and evolutionary biology and the history of ideas...
Give me some limits. What books (movies, TV shows, etc) make you really, really happy right now? That's what matters I think. That it gets to you where you live.
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Finally reading All the Pretty Horses, hard to get at my library, got lucky Sun. Also, Joyce Carol Oates, collected stories about famous writers. In my nightstand drawer, The Soprano State, I live there.
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