Reading Challenge Update
Aug. 10th, 2024 06:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngI vowed to read for 15-30min first thing every morning and by gods, I've managed it so far! Only one morning did I wake up too late to read, but I set myself down on my lunch break and did it instead. It's been very rewarding -- I realized I'd been using that time to wake up by browsing the tubes, so why not read, like, books?
I just finished Saint of Bright Doors yesterday, which was an astounding book. Definitely the kind of new, innovative, introspective and also socially critical kind of fantasy I've been expecting of a lot of other books that didn't quite hit all of those. A book to chew on, basically, and I can see why it's up for the Hugo Award. I love books that you can turn over and over again and find new perspectives, ideas, themes.
It's also why the next book I'm reading is a Scalzi one, lol. Starter Villain has an popcorn premise about taking over your estranged uncle's villain empire, and so far it's fun. It's definitely not a book with a lot of depth, but hey: sentient cats and explosions. I need something lighter after Bright Doors.
Once I realized this pattern of reading is actually working for me, instead of feeling like a chore, I set up a bunch of holds at the library for books I've been wanting to read. I feel so behind, which is silly but also very valid. It's hard to find time to read with kids, because they see you just "sitting there" and have to rescue you from a perceived boredom. And it's not that I'm not reading -- I have worked my way through all of Ursula Vernon's kid books and we're 4 books into the Animorphs series -- just not the ones in my genre.
I just hope I can continue this when school starts Monday. Not ready to go back to the 6am gauntlet. T_T But hopefully the kids will go to bed a little earlier...?? Who am I kidding.
I just finished Saint of Bright Doors yesterday, which was an astounding book. Definitely the kind of new, innovative, introspective and also socially critical kind of fantasy I've been expecting of a lot of other books that didn't quite hit all of those. A book to chew on, basically, and I can see why it's up for the Hugo Award. I love books that you can turn over and over again and find new perspectives, ideas, themes.
It's also why the next book I'm reading is a Scalzi one, lol. Starter Villain has an popcorn premise about taking over your estranged uncle's villain empire, and so far it's fun. It's definitely not a book with a lot of depth, but hey: sentient cats and explosions. I need something lighter after Bright Doors.
Once I realized this pattern of reading is actually working for me, instead of feeling like a chore, I set up a bunch of holds at the library for books I've been wanting to read. I feel so behind, which is silly but also very valid. It's hard to find time to read with kids, because they see you just "sitting there" and have to rescue you from a perceived boredom. And it's not that I'm not reading -- I have worked my way through all of Ursula Vernon's kid books and we're 4 books into the Animorphs series -- just not the ones in my genre.
I just hope I can continue this when school starts Monday. Not ready to go back to the 6am gauntlet. T_T But hopefully the kids will go to bed a little earlier...?? Who am I kidding.
