Sunday, February 15, 2009

My drug of choice

So I just bought 7 new books in the last week. I read everything in sight and I have an impulse to buy new books at every opportunity. I am hoping that my ever growing queue of literature will keep me busy for a while, but one can only hope. I feel as excited and invigorated by reading as I did when I was a kid! I am thrilled to be back in this place and I am always happy to take suggestions. I think my safe guard should be to just put the new books I want up on my Amazon wish list and wait until a special occasion or gift certificate comes along. Goodness knows there are already enough books in my world to keep me busy for quite some time. I just thought I would share about how incredible reading is. It is the best way to learn new things - even non-fiction and novels can be intensely researched and have loads of solid, factual information in them. And of course reading leads to me doing some of my own research to learn more about the subject matter of which I am reading or research about the author. I love this upward spiral into the stars!

3 comments:

Mikey said...

I think I shot myself in the foot with this reading books thing by subscribing to magazines. I find myself reading them more than reading actual books, and I think it's because I can usually finish them in one setting. I really hope to get back into books once school is over; I should have more room for them in my life then.

Leah J. said...

I, too, am a book-a-holic. I would classify myself as a serial killer... I read all the books in a particular series before moving on to another series. It works for me, since I read on the train coming home from work and while I'm relaxing after a long day or on the weekend, so I generally go for something that doesn't require me to think too much. There's nothing like a big fat book to pass the time!

Lauren Parker Lasater said...

I chugging away myself - being sick as allowed me to enjoy bubble baths and reading novels...see you this weekend :)