Kevin's Watch

I'm up to a mind blowing 1 book a year.
Believe it or not I still have 100 pages left of AATE and it's been that way for months. There are so many other demands on my time that I can't just sit and read a book. Now when I was 20 I could read anything anywhere. Now if there is a conversation going on nearby or the television is on or there is music playing (other than symphony) I find it hard to concentrate and end up reading the same sentence over and over until I have to quit.
However while at work I just listened to Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom and am beginning the sequel The Pale Horseman. I think listening to books may be my salvation since I can do it at work, in the car and anywhere else that I am able to wear earbuds and still function.

I apparently am at less than a book a year, unless you count audio books. I've been reading AATE as well for over a year. And I have more than 100 pages to go.

Cagliostro wrote:I apparently am at less than a book a year, unless you count audio books. I've been reading AATE as well for over a year. And I have more than 100 pages to go.

Heh. I feel better knowing I'm not the only one.
Of course now I'm going to have to make another attempt to get that book finished. Especially since I have George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons waiting for me to read.

aTOMiC wrote:I just listened to Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom and am beginning the sequel The Pale Horseman.

I like these...one of my favourite of his series. I just finished Sword Song recently...awaiting the next.

--A

I'm a couple hundred pages into my 2nd Robert Ludlum book- The Parsifal Mosaic (1982). Good action and psychology doesn't get old! I'm enjoying it, although it is seeming like you've read one Ludlum, you've read them all.

Also reading some John Piper, a good Christian writer (in my book that means someone who can take good, sound theology and make it fascinating, not fluffy).

What? Are you reading about hedonism again, Meredith?
(Just trying to keep to the tone set by the OP! )

Linna Heartlistener wrote:What? Are you reading about hedonism again, Meredith?
(Just trying to keep to the tone set by the OP! )

As you can see by my signature, I am BACK into reading, big time!! and loving it. So many books, so little time...

Of course, awhile after I'd posted that comment, I'd thought, "Hrmm, this becomes a lame 'inside joke' to people who don't know the reference.."



I like it how the guy devotes one whole appendix at the end to defending his use of the expression "Christian hedonism/hedonist" to people in churches who would find it off-putting.
Partly cause I was like, "Okay, I can see why there would be a need to bother with that."

Come on Cambo! Just the other day you were telling us how the day had passed wonderfully in the clutches of a beautiful woman. Remember the old adage my Son, "Man cannot live on sausage alone."

I think it was Andy Rooney who said that if a man need not buy the cow if he's getting the milk for free, a woman need not buy the whole pig just to get a little sausage.

*ahem* I am reading my buns off nowadays, but a lot of it is for work (teaching), so I actually am in that place where I have numerous books going at once.

I did manage to finish my re-read of The Illearth War last night. Still, not sure if I'm going to get my 50 books in 50 weeks in, unless I finish all the curriculum-related books...