I have a confession, but I think you can guess it from the title. I don’t read like I used to. I used to devour books, and I was always on the search for more. I would wake up early and read before school, read after school, and stay up too late to do more reading. I kept the habit up most of the way through college. I got pretty busy in my junior and senior years, but since I was a Lit major, I was still reading plenty of fiction.
Then I started grad school. For a long time, I used the excuse that I had so much reading to do for school that the last thing I wanted to do in my free time was more reading. I guess that was valid for a time, but you fall out of the habit, and then you’re just a person who used to read a lot.
I tried to get back into it last summer. I made it through The Grapes of Wrath and Catch 22. Both were good and Catch 22 is hilarious (and misogynistic), but they’re not the kind of books that really get me excited about reading. I also feel guilty when I read fiction for pleasure instead of studying for school. But, given the amount of time I waste on the internet, I have plenty of time to start reading again. And, I want to.
I decided that Me Talk Pretty One Day would be a good place to begin, because I love everything of David Sedaris that I’ve heard on NPR or read in others of his books.
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I’m getting back into that reading phase again, too. Somewhere I lost that bookworm in me, and I’m out to find it again! Baby steps, baby steps…
I wish I had more time to read, but I do miss it from high school. There are books that I read every year that I love so much, but new books always take some time to get to.
Summer’s always the time when I read for fun only and as we go camping each summer I usually get a lot of reading done. If you want you could let me know what type of books you like to read and I could suggest some titles?
I knowww, reading-for-fun in grad school is hard. It took me 7 full months to get through Anna Karenina. It’s a long book, but in undergrad I could get through a book that long in 2 months (well, in lit classes…when I had to…)!
Randomly stumbled across your blog from the “grad school” tag and just enjoyed reading a few posts. :) Just wanted to throw it out there that I definitely relate…grad school and even the undergrad years before it sucked out all my time for enjoyment reading. It’s really kind of depressing. But I loved “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (even as a Speech-Language Pathology student) and am currently trying to carve out some more time for “for fun” reading…we’ll see how it goes. Best of luck becoming a ‘current’ rather than a ‘former’ reader again.
Thanks for stopping by, caffeinerd. I finished Me Talk Pretty One Day, and I loved it too!