So apparently I’m back in the business of reading books. For a while there I didn’t want to pick up a book, I didn’t want to look at a book, I pretty much didn’t want to hear the word “book” being used. For some reason, every time I picked up a book and started reading the very first line, I would involuntarily start yawning and occasionally make audible noises similar to that of someone groaning because they are completely and utterly bored out of their damn mind. Essentially I was. Even the most exciting of books that I have read before, the classics that I truly love, were doing nothing for me. I just didn’t want to read.
There came a point in time, somewhere between seeing the second Hunger Games movie and last month when I decided I couldn’t wait any longer and I needed to know how the whole thing ended. I hadn’t read the first two books, I have only seen the movies, but the next part to the movie franchise is taking far too long (in my mind) and I quite simply needed to know what happened next. So I bought Mockingjay and painstakingly pushed myself to read the whole damn book. Essentially the book is how I imagined it to be so it wasn’t an overly difficult read, it’s just because my mind was so closed off to reading that I had to push myself to keep reading. I’m almost certain there’s at least one page in that book that I just sort of glanced over rather than reading it properly.
Either way, it helped. Since reading Mockingjay, I went on to read Cecelia Ahern’s The Book of Tomorrow as well as Douglas Adam’s The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy. By read, I mean, I SUPER READ, because I managed to get through both books in 3 days. I’m not a fast reader, I never have been, so reading 2 books in such a short amount of time is an accomplishment.
To keep the momentum going, I’ve compiled a list of books that I have on my bookshelf that are yet to be read plus some books that I have just purchased (my birthday is coming up! It’s a present to me!) that I need to get through before the year is out!
First of all the books I already have:
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The books I have just purchased from Book Depository
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Does anyone have any other book-reading suggestions?
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