I don't think there are any 12 step programs for my ailment.
But then, I doubt I'd deem myself in need of rehabilitation if there were any programs, so it's probably a good thing they're not available. Without rehab, there can be no interventions. So, I'm safe to read to my heart's content.
Even when that means I'm completely ignoring many other obligations - like sweeping, mopping, dusting, laundry, etc.
Yes, sometimes I get into a really good book and pretty much couch potato until I've finished it (betcha didn't know you could use "couch potato" as a verb, did you?).
Over the past six months, I've taken part in two reading log swaps on Swap-Bot. It's the first time I've ever actually kept track of my reading. I've always said that I read to escape and my logs sure showed that! I had a grand total of one nonfiction book during six months of reading!
For kicks, here's my log (sans all of the descriptions):
| Title | Author |
| False Memory | Dean Koontz |
| Confessions of a Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella |
| Shopaholic Ties the Knot | Sophie Kinsella |
| Cold Case | Stephen White |
| The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials Trilogy) | Phillip Pullman |
| Desperate Hours (The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria) | Richard Goldstein |
| Murder Suicide | Keith Ablow |
| Breaking Dawn | Stephenie Meyer |
| Blaze | Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman |
| Manhunt | Janet Evanovich |
| Everyone Worth Knowing | Laura Weisberger |
| Power Play | Joseph Finder |
| A TV Guide to Life (How I Leaned Everything I Needed to Know from Watching Television) | Jeff Alexander |
| Confessions of a Nervous Shiksa | Tracy McArdle |
| Murder in Volume | D.R. Meredith |
| Too Late for Angels | Mignon F. Ballard |
| Breach of Promise | Perri O’Shaughnessy |
| Unfit to Practice | Perri O’Shaughnessy |
| Hush | Anne Frasier |
| The Host | Stephenie Meyer |
| SisterWife | Natalie R. Collins |
| Then We Came to the End | Joshua Ferris |
| I Am Legend | Richard Matheson |
| The Woods | Harlan Coben |
| | Dennis Lehane |
| Killer Instinct | Joseph Finder |
| Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt |
| Teacher Man | Frank McCourt |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| Nobody’s Safe | Richard Steinberg |
| Daddy’s Girl | Lisa Scottoline |
| Brotherhood of the Rose | David Morrell |
| Creepers | David Morrell |
| Saving Fish From Drowning | Amy Tan |
| Are you There, Vodka, It’s Me, Chelsea. | Chelsea Handler |
| Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns |
| Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister | Gregory Maguire |
| Ender’s Game Speaker of the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind | Orson Scott Card |
| Hide | Lisa Gardner |
| ‘Tis | Frank McCourt |
| Every Boy’s Got One | Meg Cabot |
| After Sunset | Stephen King |
| Change of Heart | Jodi Picoult |
| Retribution | Jilliane Hoffman |
| Veil of Roses | Laura Fitzgerald |
| The Hour I First Believed | Wally Lamb |
I've decided to keep a log of everything I read this year. Maybe I'll try to sneak in more than one nonfiction!
1 comment:
Wow, that's alot. I have never been much of a reader, though this year I decided that my New Years resolution would have absolutely nothing to do with weight loss, but instead would be about reading more. My daughter's read alot, my oldest has read all the classics for High School, my 11 year old has read the whole Twighlight series, and The Host. I'm starting off kind of slow, by the time my day ends and I curl up with a book, I'm so tired I fall asleep by the second page.
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