mainsqueeze's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - I'm putting together a mini-book club for myself and some friends to participate in this winter. I'm doing this because I really need to meet some new people, preferably people who can string together a handful of words to form intelligent, coherent sentences-- or even incoherent intelligent sentences-- but also because over the past two years or so, I have fallen into a literary slump. I still read, but I read less, and I read the same things over and over. I would say that over the past two years, I have read about 150-200 books total, but maybe 60 different books. I view my favorites as safe places, so when I am searching my shelves, I'm probably more likely to grab Slaughterhouse Five or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland than Finnegan's Wake. I've read Garp (I've nicknamed a book, that's how familiar we are) about ten times since I was 20 or 21. I've read the entire Sandman series about five times in the same period. A Prayer for Owen Meany, about seven or eight. Breakfast of Champions at least twelve. See what I mean? I don't want to get to the point where the idea of reading anything new is so intimidating that I just lock myself up with my musty old favorites and refuse to read anything else. Input is so totally welcome. 7:07 p.m. - 2006-09-21 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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