I have decided that I spend WAY too much time watching TV when I get home from work. The usual routine goes something like this:
6:30-6:45pm: arrive home
6:45-7:15pm: eat dinner
7:15-7:30pm: clean up
7:30 - ???: sit on my butt and watch tv
The last part of that schedule varies sometimes depending on the cleaning or organizing that needs to be done or depending on our workout schedules since joining the gym. But I usually end up watching tv at the gym on the eliptical anyway. Therefore, I have decided that I need to fill my evenings with something with more subtance. I need to start reading again. I miss reading. I have read tons of books in my lifetime, I was one of the nerdy people in school who actually read all the assigned books (and enjoyed them too!). So now that school is long gone, I need to start making myself read again. I need suggestions. I enjoy most any book. I have re-read and re-read some of my favorites time and time again:
Jane Eyre
Catcher in the Rye
Great Expectations
anything by Roald Dahl
The Devil Wears Prada
... just to name a few. So as you can see I can enjoy a vast array of books from dramatic to comedy. What should I start reading next?
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I think you should read The Kite Runner. It's an interesting read.
also the following series of books are must reads:
A Child Called It
The Lost Boy
A Man Named Dave
Boy, I'm getting out of hand, but here's another book I loved:
The Secret Lives of Bees
I'll leave you alone now. I just love to read so thought I would pass on the most recent books I've read.
You should join a book club. I have a couple of friends that started a book club and they read a lot of books, and few they never thought they'd read.
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. gooooood stuff.
The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers
uhm i'll stop at two, but it is requiring GREAT will power.
hooray for catcher in the rye.
mom always has tons of books that you could read. i personally was enthralled with the davinci code. i also tend to enjoy anything by maeve binchy (the glass lake is one of my favorites). i also read helter skelter which is the story of charles manson, really creepy! but very informative.
ooo... i loved the davinci code, too. didn't maeve binchy write circle of friends? the book was so much better than the movie!
i would have to say i support jimps on his suggestions. they are all great books!
i would also support the da vinci code. it's fun and empowering if you are a woman!
also good reads: the red tent, tales of a female nomad, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, till we have faces, and city of god (by e.l. doctorow, although the one by augustine is good too).
those are some of my favs.
my husband reads "red badge of courage" as if it were "catcher in the rye" and he was mel gibson on "conspiracy theory." but you might have to be male to really get into that one.
if you like civil war history "the killer angels" is a good book to add a bit of humanity back into the dry facts.
nytro: yes, maeve did write circle of friends. the movie did suck, but i still enjoy the book. i love all of her stuff, they are a nice easy read if you are just looking for something to take your mind off stuff.
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