While posting my previous post, I realized I want to write a little about my reading habits.
I am usually reading a book and then interrupting it so that I could read another, but eventually I return to the first one to finish it, too.
I have this somehow chaotic routine with the books. Sometimes I am afraid that maybe I don't respect the book and the author enough and that is why I go reading another before finishing the one I have already started reading. I feel it's not fair. And still I keep doing it.
Anyway, my reading goes through (hopefully) all the possibilities, authors, styles and continents. I have read one Bulgakov, some Kafka, not enough Dostoievski, a lot of Gracia Marquez, a little Pamuk and many others since I have always loved reading! In school it was my secret power. I found it so rewarding that I preferred reading to many other activities.
Now I am reading Andrew Solomon - The Noonday Demon and Nicolae Steinhardt - The Happiness Diary. I started the first one and I found myself in it. It's about depression and dealing with it. I had never thought of myself as depressed, but I have some of the signs he describes in the book. On the other hand, I find The Happiness Diary inspiring since it's about finding balance and even happiness while spending time in prison (because of political reasons). So these two books are somehow connected and I feel that the Diary completes the Demon in a more spiritual way. So I paused reading the Demon so that I read the Diary :) You see? Now, as I describe it, I think it's not fair to read a second book while I haven't finished the first one... Hmm... Maybe I will change this! Read one book at a time!
Wait, I must confess that I have also read the Twilight series and the 50 shades books! These are my most shameful reads but I must confess to having read them!
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