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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Chi read Jobs' bio... 
After bad food one doesn't really have appetite for more. |
bah, read it 2 years ago :P very good book though. Recently read Walt Disney's bio as well, what a difference between the two. Both geniuses in their own field and with vision but one kind hearted and good to people, the other well, not so much.
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Originally Posted by Blithe
These 'reading slumps' happen at the worst of times, to the best of people, but they're nothing worth stressing over: it's perfectly natural for our interest in all things to wax and wane, often without any catalyst. I have four 'hobbies', I suppose, and I go through slumps with all of them: reading, knitting, miniature models and video games. Sometimes I go through a slump with all of them, at the same time! (It's usually then that I have my most thorough spring-cleans; what else am I going to do?)
I don't think that this is necessarily something that you need to 'do something' about, and it certainly isn't worthwhile calling yourself sick over it. Unless you need to read as part of your career, and you're struggling to find the will to do so, it really isn't a problem. These phases are natural. Find something else to occupy your time: I notice that you've said that you're not a 'watcher' (nor am I!), and that ready occupies 830pm - 900pm each day.
Would you consider listening to a podcast? There are plenty of interesting ones out there, both factual and fictional. I'm personally fond of history podcasts -- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is very entertaining and educating. If you want to do something with your hands and eyes, too, rather than merely sitting and existing (which can be very therapeutic!), have you considered needlework, scrapbooking or journalling? I've found them all very fun. Of course, as I earlier stated, I clean obsessively when I go through slumps that none of my hobbies can satisfy...  |
Nicely put Blithe. And welcome to MR forums. All I can say I will not go for a walk at 8.30 pm neither will I go swimming. Knitting bores me to death. For whatever hobby I have time between 8.30 pm and midnight and frankly sometimes I'm too tired to do anything and reading is the best. Anyway, I meant "sick" as a metaphore. It annoys me not to read. But it will pass.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
As Fosca sings, in Stephen Sondheim's Passion:
I do not read to think. I do not read to learn.
I do not read to search for truth
I know the truth, the truth is hardly what I need.
I read to dream.
I read to live. In other people's lives.
I read about the joys the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live,
To get away from life!
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That is lovely!
@cromag, yeah, I think I will indeed take a break.
And @hardcastle, well I bough really discounted children ebooks recently, ones I was reading when I was small, now to read to my son but maybe I should read them myself first
