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Hello again! Over the past couple of weeks I read not one, but two books that I’ll tell you about today. Yay! Life is so, so busy (I hate that expression) and things encroach constantly, but I try to find tiny pockets of time to fit my reading in. Anytime I’m standing in a line, I’m reading a book. I also discovered audio books again. Who knew that you can read with your ears!! Seriously, I used to listen to audio books when I was a courier for one of our hospitals. I loved them, and it got my fix in for reading in a BIG way. When you spend eight hours in a car alone, you can fly through a lot of books.
But it does create confusion for people, when you walk into a place of business with your eyes swollen shut from crying after listening to four straight hours of
The Chamber by
John Grisham. Have you read it? It was excellent from what I remember…..Anywho, that’s not what I wanted to talk about today.
I discovered that now that I’m
older, I most definitely cannot multitask. This includes listening to audio books. I have to concentrate and pay attention, else my mind wanders off and when I tune back in I have NO idea what’s going on. I hate multitasking anyway. I have found that if I concentrate on one thing at a time, I get it done quicker and I don’t get it wrong after three tries. Ahem. But some things I do are what I call brainless activities: loading the dishwasher, changing the bed sheets, scrubbing the toilets in my house. Things like that, that need to done, but that don’t necessarily need my brain along to accomplish them. Those are excellent times to also “read” a book. ANYWAY. I “read”
Me Talk Pretty One Day by
David Sedaris over the past two weeks via audio book.
Let me get out all of my adjectives for this one: This book was hilarious, heartbreaking, shocking, tender, sad, and laugh out loud funny. I had no idea who David Sedaris was when I picked out this book. I knew somewhere in the recesses of my brain that Hayden had one of his books that we had picked up on one of our
book hauls. But beyond that, nothing.
I highly recommend it on the fact alone that he narrates the audio book himself and he kind of, sort of, not really, but slightly sounds like me when he talks. Also, I would love to meet his father because I would bet real money that David Sedaris has his Dad’s voice down pat.
I also read
Eat That Frog! by
Brian Tracy. I wanted to read this because I hear so, SO many people reference it all the time and I’ve never been a fan of the concept. I understand where they are coming from, but I have found that I don’t deal well with things in this way. Example: The point of this book is to take your most dreaded task and get it done first thing. This is to keep you from procrastinating. I have discovered about myself many things over the years. One of them is that if I have a dreaded, monumental task set before me, I’m going to avoid completing it like it’s the plague. Which is the very definition of procrastination. So I feel like, by doing things in this manner, I am absolutely setting myself up for failure from the very beginning.
I need to break things down into manageable chunks of time, so that I can get a sense of accomplishment along the way. I feel like if I used the Eat That Frog method of doing things, it would go something like this: I decide to clear out my closet all in one go; it takes me three days; I have a complete and utter disaster on my hands; and Denton and I would be sleeping on random piles of clothing for the duration. Not fun for anyone.
But, if I do things in small manageable chunks – clear out the dresser today and just the dresser – I can get that done in a reasonable amount of time, and I can feel good about the whole thing without my bedroom looking like the Goodwill exploded, to quote my Mama.
I guess it all comes down to what kind of a system works for you. I enjoyed reading the
Marie Kondo books too, but I work better with the
FlyLady system on a day to day basis. Of course I’ve been
decluttering my house for about six years now, but that’s another story entirely.
It was a good book though, full of other great tips and I’m glad that I read it.
You can see a list of all of the books I read in 2018 here. Just scroll to the bottom of the page.
Books I’ve read in 2019:
Novels:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Cookbooks:
Baking with Mary Berry: Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Pastries from the British Queen of Baking By Mary Berry
Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy by Damaris Phillips
Weight Watchers One Pot Cookbook by Weight Watchers
Non-Fiction:
Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave by Joanna Gaines
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Backyard Orchardist by Stella Otto
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But I didn’t want to leave you empty handed in case you need a new to you book to read, so I’ve decided that I’m going to tell you about books that I have read before and loved. I can’t re-read every single book I’ve ever read (oh how I wish I had that many hours in my day!), so it’s unlikely that I will get to tell you about all of them unless I just tell you about them. Did any of that make sense? When I haven’t read a new, never read before book, I’ll just tell you about a book that I’ve read in the past that I think you might want to read too. Okay? Okay.
This is another book from my favorites pile. Have you read it? If you keep yourself under a rock like I do most of the time, you may not know of this series. I first read it when the kids were in middle school. And I loved it.
