bookstores

[silverflight8]

Can I say, I don't really enjoy bookstores? Oh, I quite like nosing in and looking at what's on display and seeing all the shiny, new, unbent and perfectly formed books and all. They are so perfect! Most of my reading is library so they've often been well-cracked, or modified with plastic and such to make them last a little longer. Plus bookstores always have interesting knick-knacks and general atmosphere - but all it makes me feel is that I should go home and read the books piling up there. I feel, guiltily, that I have so many books on hold at the library and as well as on the to-read-later list on the library website. That I have the real TBR list (on paper), the vague TBR list I keep in my head (which consists of things like "eventually, read all of Shakespeare's plays, Milton, the four Chinese classics, etc" - you know, very ambitious projects).

And what do I do when I get home?! REREAD SOMETHING I LOVE. I am making so little headway!

I'm presently about 30% through A Tale of Two Cities. I've read a lot of British literature and decided (completely ignoring all of the TBR lists previously mentioned) abruptly a few weeks ago I was going to stop avoiding Dickens.

flist, what are you reading?

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[pipisafoat]

I mean, I'm also reading lots of fanfiction! But I'm learning audio, so I'm reading about it, book loaned by my "boss" to read. And I'm trying to improve my mental health, so I've been keeping a book on rotation for that, too. And I always have a dog training book at hand, as well, but this one I'm reading now swear to god I am reading it out of SPITE. It's not very good. There has been legal advice that has been glaringly wrong, for example. So I'm not sharing that title because it's so horrible, but I am reading it. Out of spite. I keep thinking it'll get better! And it's had some good ideas (honestly nothing I haven't used with past dogs), but it keeps saying horribly wrong things.

Also it subscribes to pack theory, which ... no. And purely positive, which literally isn't possible and I don't understand how these purely positive trainers don't see their own hypocrisy. Also, it keeps mentioning Cesar Milan, which is not the best thing to me.

So. Yes. The more long-winded answer.

[silverflight8]

I do the spite read, spite review thing >_> it makes me feel better!

Yeah, if it's not purely bad it can keep you going. Which is true for a lot of things, unfortunately.