I just found that WordPress has a “writing prompt”, much like Day One’s journal prompt. Today’s was “what do you want to read?”. Ok, I’ll run with that, in a manner of speaking.
I always want to read more than I find the time for. This has been a problem (is it really a problem?) for my whole life, though. I think I’d be happy reading for hours a day if I didn’t have so many other responsibilities. Not complaining — the other things I do are important! — but what it leads to is I always have a reading list that stretches out into an unreasonably long point in the future. The singularity of reading lists, so to speak.
I read in 3 forms: paper, Kindle, and Audible. And I usually have more than one going in each form at the same time. Right now I have going on:
- The Book of Joy (Audible)
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Audible)
- Oliver Twist (Audible)
- The Magician’s Nephew (Kindle)
- Introduction to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Kindle)
- My Antonia (Kindle)
- The DevOps Handbook (Kindle)
- Conan: Blood of the Serpent (paper)
- Once Upon a Time Machine (paper)
So yeah, 9 books: I have a problem. You understand, I’m actively working on (reading at least once a week) almost all of them. How many people do something like this? How odd is this reading style? One of the issues is I want to keep up with my kids’ reading from school, and since they go to a classical liberal arts Catholic school, there’s a lot of reading. Then I want to keep up with technical books, philosophical books, nerd books, and Important Books.
OK, time to put aside the keyboard and pick up one of the above books!
Columbia Gorge Dispatch 