I have unread books but all I want to do is reread things. I'm scanning my shelves for likely candidates. I have a half read book and two unread ones Right Here. But my brain is uninterested.
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cass - May 24, 2014 2:48:22 pm PDT #28406 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Jesse - May 24, 2014 2:54:55 pm PDT #28407 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I realized half the reason I haven't gotten a new library card since I moved in December is that most of the time, I can only deal with re-reading, so I'm not needing new stuff the way I usually do.
Beverly - May 24, 2014 3:15:16 pm PDT #28408 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, I am so glad to hear someone else say that. I have new books--stacks of them. And I keep reaching for the familiars. I don't seem to track well enough to retain new material when I'm tired. I can't believe how much new stuff I used to devour.
Steph L. - May 24, 2014 3:23:43 pm PDT #28409 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
All I have to do is hear a phrase that makes me think of a book, and I want to re-read it. Seriously. Or a song. Dusty Springfield makes me want to re-read Welcome to Temptation for the bajillionth time.
msbelle - May 24, 2014 3:26:35 pm PDT #28410 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I JUST read a book for the first time. A whole book! Ok a junior reader version of a book, but the whole thing. I shod have brought 2. This is one reason doing things alone sometimes rocks.
Connie Neil - May 24, 2014 3:27:35 pm PDT #28411 of 30000
brillig
I just went to the library to get copied of books that I know I own, but I think they're in the garage some where.
Cass - May 24, 2014 3:38:07 pm PDT #28412 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I read more new books when I could read the first chapter crouching in the aisle at Powells before I bought them. Although a few of those are still on my shelves too.
Amy - May 24, 2014 3:45:03 pm PDT #28413 of 30000
Because books.
I've made a real effort the past two years to only read new stuff because I was a serial re-reader for years. Even on really bad days I try to only reread absolute favorite scenes.
And yet more than ever I feel like I'll never get to read all of the books I want to. There are just too many.
-t - May 24, 2014 4:56:57 pm PDT #28414 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm struggling to just get through my fiction magazines lately. Novels and nonfiction = too much.
Keep buying books, though. It's a sickness.
Kat - May 24, 2014 6:14:31 pm PDT #28415 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have a big stack on my TBR pile -- Quiet and Sixth Extinction top the list. But I'm currently reading Burial Rites which is so damned depressing, while still being beautiful. I just don't want to read a Big Heavy after it. I also have The Girls of Atomic City waiting.