After my Neurology appointment, I'm headed to Half Price Books with a slightly less ambitious list of books I'd like to purchase with gift cards from Christmas. While slowly battling my way through Middlemarch, I've decided to take some advice that Jessica Koebbe gave me. She recommended reading simultaneously books that are lighter, easier, shorter, and basically anything that is different. I'm going to use this with a rewards system. Every time that I finish a book in Middlemarch (Yes! Exactly! Would you believe that it has 8 books within the book??) I will reward myself by reading a different book. Currently, I'm almost finished with Book 2. I do find the plot interesting and look forward to the "future", but I have to read for at least an hour to really be into the book. In that hour, I tend to make little progress (very unlike my usual self) which leads to little inspiration and passion for hours of reading. I'll try to limit any further complaints about this book.
Back to my original point (in case you've forgotten already like me, my Half Price Books trip with a new list). My last list contained well renowned and classical works of literature; I felt like an intellectual snob with this large list of among others Plutarch, Aristotle, Plato, and Herodutus. This list contains more contemporary works, most from the 90s and 2000s. They have been bestsellers and/or I've heard great things about them from multiple people (btw, why don't we say persons anymore....). Since they are more current, I've made a large list in hopes of finding a handfull of them. I think that after exhausting those books I am able to find, I'll look at the library for some of the others. If they are really good, maybe one day when they have been in print for many years, I'll be able to find them at Half Price Books or on Amazon.
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I misspoke-our doctors appointments aren't next week but the following.
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