Back to basics
2006.05.22I admit I haven’t been updating this blog as much as I want to. Maybe too much alcohol intake in the past month has finally fried all the good brain cells that I have left. So what’s a sloth like me got to do to keep this blog going? I got forced myself to go back to the basics — back to reading books that is. It’s what spurred my writing enthusiasm some years back so I think it’s a great way to refresh my already depleted brain.
There are a lot of available books at home that I can choose from. My father has his own collection but they are more on the serious and “based on a true story” side — that’s too much for my brain to handle right now. My mother has a handful of books but they are too holy for my current state of mind. My sister’s collection is better, ranging from love story novels to those of inspirational calibre, you know like the Og Mandino stuff. But since I have read most of them (the Og Mandino books that is), I am left with only one recourse — ask my friends what they were reading (or have read) that could possibly be of interest to me. Fortunately for me, a friend responded to my pathetic predicament and she lent me a book. Before she did, she warned me that it was of “girly” stuff and you probably know what that means. But, hey, if it doesn’t kill me then I’d give it a shot — to which I did.
I have actually finished reading the book (hooray, I am not a total sloth after all) but since I think that it warrants another blog entry, I will leave it hanging here.
I haven’t been into reading books for months now. The last book I read was Rick Warren’s PDL, (which I haven’t finished actually since laziness struck me all over again as it normally does) if I am not mistaken. I have become a total sloth that I prefer watching movies than reading books. But if ever this laziness wears out, which is kinda impossible as of the moment because of the impending influx of great movies which I am sure you already know about, I am eyeing on the “Who moved my cheese” book. Well, if ‘it’ ever wears out.
Comment by denzity — 2006.05.23 @ 13:17
I haven’t finished reading a book lately. The last book I started reading without finishing is “If You Want to Write” by Brenda Ueland. The last book I finished reading was… Hmm… What was it? Can’t even remember. Perhaps it was “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl. I read it prior to seeing the movie, which was a big mistake. But I’m not sure if I finished reading another book after this.
Comment by carlmans — 2006.05.24 @ 7:13
I’m on the second book of Narnia now.
It’s one of my summer projects.
I read a lot - i mean a lot, as in a lot that i’m blind - as a kid, but fantasy wasn’t my thing then.
As my best friend put it..”God…of all the books you have NOT read…”
*pulls sleeves up for personal challenge* :)
Comment by claudzki — 2006.05.24 @ 19:42
hey thx for leaving a comment. glad to know that i’m not the only one with that predicament. ^__^
so a bookworm it is.
Comment by sherry — 2006.05.25 @ 14:31
Reading, and I mean serious reading, is one of those simple pleasures that I seem to have all but forgotten, no thanks to the internet…
I think this calls for a separate post in my blog.
Comment by snglguy — 2006.05.25 @ 19:54
We are what we read, and there is a quote that says, “What we will become 5 years from now depends on the people we associate with, the trainings we attend and the books we read.”
I’m curious about that ‘girly stuff’ book. =)
Comment by carey — 2006.05.28 @ 10:51