It's been creeping up on me for a while and I finally have to admit defeat - I've lost the art of reading. Maybe it's the process of getting older and not having as much time as I once did. But it's more probably the other entertainment available factor - computers, Internet, TV, mobile phones, digital cameras, et al. I've lost count of all the books I bought with the best of intentions but only read a few pages of and ditched all forlorn on their dusty shelves.
And it's not just books but magazines as well, some just silly magazines with more pictures than texts. What's finally brought up the white flag is that just last Wednesday I'd borrowed three Archie comics from my niece that I'd have finished off in a day a few years ago. I only managed to get done with one today.
I hang my head in shame.
"when we heed a certain call when the world must come together as one" ... first words that came into the head on reading the title.
ReplyDeleteI am so guilty of the same thing, not only should I hang my head in shame, I should be beheaded and fed to the vultures. I still manage to read the occasional book every two or three months, but only with a lot of struggle. Just yesterday I bought four books, which will have to wait a loooong time for their turn to be read.
Et tu, ambs? More food for the vultures, hey? You make me feel ever so much better and less guiltier. Me I have some books that I bought about 5 years ago that I still haven't finished reading. Ow.
DeleteOh, and by the way, the title comes from Neil Young's Comes a Time.
DeleteI have to admit that I too am reeling with the same problem.I bought a whole load of books at a book sale ten days ago and I haven't gone through even one. TV and the internet eat up ALL my time!
ReplyDeleteLOL I'm so glad I'm not the only one with this problem, phew :)
DeleteDon't give up! All of you. Please don't give up reading books. Just shut off your TVs and PCs for an hour and keep your handy on silent and the book reading habit will come back. Also get a good book to read. Not some boring book but something that you really like to read about. When I can't find anything I just go back to my all time favourite, PG Wodehouse.........god knows how many times I have read the same thing about Bertie Wooster or Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth.
ReplyDeleteYes but Loch, you're supposed to venture out into fresher pastures et al even with reading, right? So what's the point in reading and re-reading the same books?
DeleteRe-reading is a stop gap measure love! So that you don't fall out of the reading habit that all of you seem to be doing.
ReplyDeleteI always try to venture into new pastures with reading......currently I am reading Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel. Next book is already lined up so I don't have to re-read. But if it came to a situation where I can't find something appealing I just re-read a book that is well written. Like PG Wodehouse.
Ok, point taken. But I prefer rereading a good read with some nicely spaced time in between. I get a little more out of it that way. Although the way I'm getting so forgetful these days, rereading something I'd read just the previous week would probably be like reading it for the first time all over again :D
DeleteIf You have stopped reading books, then the rest of us can be excused :) Atleast you update your blog!
ReplyDeleteHaha guess I do - though pretty sporadically. And I've read a couple of books recently. Like I'm currently reading Haruki Murakami's After Dark - though his books are always kind of depressing.
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