I’ve recently changed my perspective in regards to reading. I used to treat books as sacred, and would not start a new one until I had finished the current one. Having multiple books on the go at one time was out of the question.
Now though, I’m more into encouraging the habit of reading itself. I used to get stuck at some point in a book I was reading and that would mean I would stop reading entirely, until I worked up the motivation to dive back in. In reality, I rarely feel like reading the same thing day after day, so I’ve resolved to break my reading up into a few categories and generally have one on the go from each category. This way, I’m always interested in reading something – and the habit lives on.
Categories
- Non-Fiction
- Philosophy
- Fiction/Biography
Currently Reading
Fiction/Biography
Grampian Quartet – Nan Shepherd
Philosophy
Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 1) – Marcel Proust
Non-Fiction
A Good Nose & Great Legs – Robert Geddes
On the Radar
Non-Fiction
Diplomacy – Henry Kissinger
Philosophy
Discourse on the Method – René Descartes
Fiction/Biography
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Recently Read
“Recently” is a very loose term here.
- The Bee Sting – Paul Murray
- Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- Nothing Venture, Nothing Win – Edmund Hillary
- Prophet Song – Paul Lynch
- The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Day Of The Owl – Leonardo Sciascia
- Along the Enchanted Way – William Blacker
- A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
- The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- The Bookbinder of Jericho – Pip Williams
- The Living Mountain – Nan Shepherd
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – Alan Sillitoe
- Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
- The Devil in the Kitchen – Marco Pierre White
- An Economy Is Not A Society – Dennis Glover
- Rebel Without a Crew – Robert Rodriguez
- Breath – Tim Winton
Jonte. 