Yesterday while at the library, I saw a display for Romances for Summer and thought "Hey, what better way than dulling my brain (ok, duller than it already is)! Maybe I can jump start things again..."
So I randomly picked up two books. Last night I started reading one; after the first "juicy" 50 pages, it turned out to be the story of a woman who marries the "wrong" guy and gets physically abused and her attempts to get away. :-/
Now I am seriously depressed.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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That's a shame, Scher - no escapism in sight.Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I get this way about books in spells. This has been one for me lately. I had started "The Rainbow" then put it asside. I probably will have to re-read what I had when I start again. I also started a biography, got into it about 50 pages and put that asside. I don't normally do this. Are the planets lined up in a strange way?
I also started 2 books and could hardly get throught them - I don't like abandoning books, so I just persisted - at least they were short.
Now I am still plodding through Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and I have to say again - it is pure struggle - actually a torture. I just can't seem to read it but a few pages a night. I am totally bored with the story and finally when a male interest came into the picture, I am still bored (thinking it would pick up now)....thing is I think now it is very predictable. I think I did make it to halfway so no doubt I will finish it, just to get onto something else.
Probably when you come right down there to it, I don't feel like reading anything presently. I would rather watch a good movie instead. I hope this dry spell does not last long for me, because I picked up some new books recently and have been dying to get to them.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Sounds like something i'm writing!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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funny, Niamh...
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I have a secret tryst with books, for they unwrap an ocean of mysteries.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
oh scher...
This is a known feeling.. i have it all the time..
i have my reading frenzy times when i read like crazy.. and there are the times (like now) that i havn't touched a book in months.. (comics doesn't count)..
but i'm ok with it.. cause i know some day soon i'll get back on the wave.. and read again.....
so dont worry be happy
Worry not my friends! The book picked up again later on (yes, there was romance for her at the end after having met this devastingly good looking guy with the best character ever and loads of money). Finished the book with a grin and now I am onto the next one, which seems equally brain-dulling.
Niamh> Domestic violence is, of course, a very serious issue and I am sure your book is dealing with it more seriously and deeply than the book I read. Maybe you would let us read some parts of it?
Janine> It is surely an attempt to escape... myself. I usually read to escape life in general but sometimes I feel the need to avoid even myself and such fluffy books (romances and mysteries) seem to do the trick for me. After a while, I feel refreshed and carry on as usual (of course, meanwhile I start dealing with the issues at hand too, which is the main thing that helps me move on, I guess, rather than the books).
Hey, Willow! Nice to see you!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Well i havent even gotten to that part yet. but if you want i'll post the first thirty pages in the story section and you can let me know what you think?
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Feeling changes. They fleet every second
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Apparently I love to read books rather than newspapers,for newspapers chiefly cited about business and monetary,sigh...now we talk all of monetary...Books are rather indulging and stimulating to me now.I am conscience-stricken of my idiot demeanour.I detest myself,coveting God will help me in my anguish.
Loving feelings come and go, they are not static.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
I also do. But I have no choice! I need to read the lessons to be discussed for the next day...hahahahaha.... Kidding aside, if I'm very busy with my school paper works, I set aside reading book/s.
I goes for ever and ever eternally ad infinitum
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
perhaps life has just become more interesting than books?
"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."
Precisely.Life cannot wholly and explicitly to be written.Life cannot be shown publicly,but solely private,which is inside your heart.It is concluded that it is more stimulating than books.Unless,your life is in the book already.
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