The idea was to pick up the chosen unread book- the one I kept saying I wanted to read but never quite got around to it - and read a certain number of pages each day. How simple would that be? I decided 12 was the number of pages for me. It didn't seem like a lot and I knew I'd make some headway and perhaps get deep enough into the book that I'd want to read more. As long as I felt the book was worth reading, I'd continue on until it was finished.
Well, it worked!
I finished reading Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson today, using that method. To be honest, I didn't read from it every day, but keeping it by my bed reminded me that it was there.
No, I wouldn't call it one of my favourites, but it was definitely worth reading, even just for some of the prose and description. The story grew on me and I read more than I needed to today to finish off the book, because I wanted to know what was going to happen. It's a book that lends itself to slow reading, and even rereading some passages to ponder the meaning.
Now, if there's book you'd like to get sucked into that's pretty hard to put down, try The Mother In Law by Sally Hepworth (I borrowed this one from my local library). I dare you to stop at 12 pages!
When I'm reading a book to review, I always try to read a certain amount of it daily. I'll break it up to chapters or sections in order to get it read at a reasonable amount of time. I just finished The Mother In Law. I get my books from the ebooks at the library so I put on hold several of her other books that looked interesting. In thinking back about the Mother In Law, such an interesting plot. You wonder if she had lived would she have changed her will after she was no longer suicidal? but in the end the money was put to good use and helped so many others. Truly I'm grateful for the relationship I have with my DIL (okay they are divorced but living together LOL and its complicated but we spend a lot of time together). I had a complicated relationship with my MIL. Mainly because of something she said about my mom and the minute she said what she said I was like "I'm done with you" and basically I was. I didn't want to have much to do with her after that. Words really do matter!
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Words sure do matter! Wasn't that an interesting read? The main character was sure an interesting person! Glad to hear you have a great relationship with your d-i-l. Sure makes life easier!
DeleteI have so many books on my TBR pile but like you I often get more books from the library and the TBR pile grows. It sounds like you have more than one book on the go at a time if you opt to read a certain amount of a TBR book each day. I find I need to concentrate on one at a time.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do have several books on the go all the time. It drives me a little crazy sometimes, but I read certain books depending on my mood :) Thanks for stopping by!
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