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Well hello there. This has been sitting on the back burner of my life for quite a long time. I’ve had a difficult time sorting my thoughts out about books lately. For months I literally couldn’t concentrate enough to get through a page of a book, much less a whole book. No matter what I picked up my mind would just flutter around and I would realize that I had no idea how far my eyes had read down the page, but my brain was off in lala land.
So. I stopped reading books. For months. I swear I could feel my brain shrinking and my entire being getting stupider by the day. Please, PLEASE don’t take that as a personal insult if you don’t like to read. I know many, many people who are much more intelligent than I am who do not enjoy reading. But for me, reading is like breathing air. I felt like I was suffocating. I thought to myself one day: This must be what writer’s block feels like in a way. Gahh. That’s horrifying.
We went on vacation with my family in June and usually that’s when I can burn through many, many books. I didn’t read a single book this year. I started a LOT of new books and put every single one of them down in frustration.
Then I decided sometime in the middle of July that I was determined to get through a book, so I picked up an old favorite. Books that I’ve read over and over. That way if my mind did wander off in the middle of a sentence it didn’t matter, because once my brain caught up with my eyes I still knew what was going on. Then I read another old favorite and another until we are caught up today.
Light, easy, fun and entertaining reads. That’s what I’ve spent the last month and a half reading. Things that I’ve read over and over. That’s definitely not a complete list of my favorites, but it got me started again and now I can breathe.
I actually picked a new to me book from my ginormous to be read pile and I’m about halfway through, so I’ll tell you all about it next week! That’s all I’ve got. If your brain is stuck in neutral and you can’t bring yourself to finish even one paragraph of a new book, pick up an old favorite and just immerse yourself in it. Your lungs will thank you.
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:
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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