Am I Over Reading in General, or Just Fiction?
The library books I've been trying to read...
Writing about Seattle's library made me miss library trips. So I went to my local library a few weeks back (while I was still pregnant...I figured a stack of books would be good for me as sick as I was feeling and as much time as I was spending in bed). I checked out the above books based on recommendations in the media/from blogs/from friends. Didn't do so well getting through the stack, which I read from the bottom up (most frothy to most literary). Here's how it went:
- Mini Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella. This series is so sweet and light, but this book I couldn't get into. Too repetitive? A totally bratty little kid? Not sure. Pages read: ~50.
- Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld. I think I just wasn't really into reading about high school students. Pages read: ~25.
- My Hollywood, Mona Simpson. Mothers who pawn their kids off on nannies and don't seem at all happy with their kids or their marriages. Pages read: ~100 because the writing was interesting, but I'm just not good with reading books whose characters I dislike.
- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen (and you can see the book's cool website here). A really sweet story, interestingly written with lots of footnotes, side notes, notes in the margins, diagrams, etc. Got it because of this blog post. Best thing I've read in a while. Would love to write a book like this. Pages read: All.
{Miscarriage happened about here.}
- Loving Frank, Nancy Horan. A woman who leaves her husband and kids. Could not get into it, but that may not have been the book's fault. Pages read: ~15.
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro. Couldn't even start, my record with all these other books was so dismal. Pages read: 0.
I used to read voraciously, and now it's so very hard for me to get into anything. I think it might just be novels that I'm having such a hard time with, though. I'm going to get a stack of nonfiction books and see how that goes. I'll report back.
Anyone want to recommend a good nonfiction book I could pick up?
XO
