Kingdom of Knuffel

I had nothing else to do lol. I actually did some cleaning before I made supper so I was like "what now?" because I couldn't watch anything since I stream 95% of my shows. So I went and read since I had taken care of everything that needed to be done.

Believe me, I know a LOT of people in my high school class (of like 40 people) have not touched a book since high school if it wasn't for school. Most people I talk to don't read. I bring up I like reading and people are like ??? Granted I live by myself with two dogs so besides taking care of my dogs and housework, I spend a lot of my time on hobbies. (as long as my sister don't need me to take my nephew anywhere)

I read more at college because the University library was open for such long hours...
So I would go from my classes to the library, and then they'd kick me out at 2am, and I'd stumble home, and then miss my morning classes from sleeping in too long...

But I got a lot of reading done. >.<

It took me a long time to learn self-discipline. Sigh.


Then when I first started living on my own, my apartment was situated such that walking home from work there was a used book store on my route home.
So I'd pretty much stop there at LEAST three times a week.
Got a fair bit of reading done when I lived there, too...

Then we had a family crisis and I ended up living with a bunch of the family Elders and my time for reading disappeared. Except for reading aloud to everyone, sometimes.

Then over the years we lost most of the Elders and only two new ones needed help, and then my cousin once removed sold his business and retired and he told me that he'd pay for assistance for the Elders and suddenly I'm able to go to work again myself (which is really good because at this point my savings are GONE) and have time for reading again... I feel guilty leaving things to strangers, but I'm SO happy to have more sleep again and feel like I'm not the only one who has to take care of everything for them, and being able to see savings slowly grow instead of shrink is a REAL relief. So on the whole I'm glad.

I barely went to the library at my school unless I needed 100% no distractions when studying.

That sounds like a dream. They would have had so much of my money.

I wouldn't feel too guilty. You have done a lot to help them and now it's your turn to relax. That is a big responsibility that I know I wouldn't be able to do comfortably. I know a few people that hired caretakers for their elderly parents and they would build such a good relationship that everyone was happy. Hopefully it will be the same for them.

Time to update my challenge!

Yep, I've finished the second book in my language, so that's something done.
Now I'm reading a sci-fi novel which does not fit in any of the categories, so I think I should start considering which book to read next - just to make sure it's in one of those.

Amura wrote:My aim is to read this year at least 2 books in each of the following categories:
- books in Galician language
- about feminism
- books related to science/maths
- any of the books that have been sitting on my to-read list for way too long.

Also I'm 1 book behind schedule in my GoodReads challenge.
It's not a big deal, I'm ok with being a little behind during winter and spring, as I usually have more time to read during summer holidays - but it shows that I haven't read as much as usual lately.

My mother said she was going to a fill a bag book sale at the library. I told her to grab a bag of books for me. It's cheap enough that you don't have to be picky. I told her to look for regency books. She said she didn't know what that is. I said like Pride and Prejudice. She said she didn't know what that is. I said just look for covers where the people look like they're dressed from a couple hundred years ago. She said she doesn't know what that looks like. I said look for long dresses and bonnets, sort of like Little House on the Prairie. So my mother calls me and says they had a ton so she got me 5 bags. Can you guess what kind of books I ended up with? Amish.

Dang, Sanssouci, your mom did you dirty

How is she so entirely unfamiliar with such an ubiquitous genre? You don't have to read them yourself to know what they are...
What does she normally read? Does she just stick entirely to non-fiction or something? I guess that could do it, maybe?

Much more surprising than that -how did she manage to make it through all her schooling without being required to read Pride & Prejudice at least once?

I was stuck reading that book five times over the years.
Matched only by "Hamlet" (which honestly was better in my view because there was more to write essays about in Hamlet; you could analyze the poetry as well as politics of the time -both the time of the initial audience and the time period that Hamlet was set in-, or discuss mental illnesses or how criminal justice systems evolved or whether or not Hamlet could count as one of the early examples of a "mystery" or not, or talk about the use of plays as propaganda and the play-within-a-play trope, or all sorts of things).
I think I ended up reusing two of my essays for Pride & Prejudice because I just couldn't face writing any more, and if the teachers were so uncoordinated they kept using the same books, I thought I'd be safe.
Honestly I should have done it for all five classes, ha ha ha.
Oh well.

Five times the same book? Isn't there an international education program or something? In Poland it would be unheard of. The ministry of education prepares a school program for books per school level. There's little room for teachers to put books of their own choosing to the list, and I think it would mostly be for extended Polish language programs in schools.

Akili Li wrote:How is she so entirely unfamiliar with such an ubiquitous genre? You don't have to read them yourself to know what they are...
What does she normally read? Does she just stick entirely to non-fiction or something? I guess that could do it, maybe?

Much more surprising than that -how did she manage to make it through all her schooling without being required to read Pride & Prejudice at least once?

I never read Pride and Prejudice in school. I don't know what my parents read in school, but neither of my parents read now. My father literally won't pick up a book, doesn't even own any. My mother will occasionally flip though something like a dog training book, but she'll just flip around to what interests her. She doesn't sit down and actually read a full book. And they both only watch fairly modern tv shows and movies that are set in modern times. So they're not even familiar with the movie versions of Pride and Prejudice.