My Freedom: Prompt Seventeen
Today's Blog Prompt says: "What's your favourite reading material? Like the kind of favourite you would take to read if you had to cut off the rest of the world for years and years?"
Words, that's what I read. I was going to say that I read anything but that's not true. I don't like horror or blood and guts war stories and to my amazement I cannot read fantasy at the moment.
It appears that I am selective about the words I read now and this has only happened as a direct result of the deppression I suffered after caring for my parents for four years. Difficult to believe that two years after they have both passed on I am still feeling the effects - difficult but not impossible to believe.
What sort of reading material would I take with me if I had to cut off the world? Well it would have to be something I can read and then read again. I would not try any of those "classics" I couldn't read them twenty years ago so I am not going to waste time trying again. I have Bill Bryson - all of his books - I have Deric Longden - all his books - I have several by Alison Weir that can be read again. I have Alan Bennett Writing Home and Untold Stories, I have Garrison Keillor. Ah, I see a pattern here. All the books I can read again and again are non-fiction. I can't think of any fiction that I have read that I would want to read again, although I might find in a couple of years that I can happily read any fiction and not remember the story so I can re-read them.
Hmmmm perhaps the encyclopedia Brittanica should go on my list too, I would certainly find that interesting - oh and I am not going without Mr M. He'll take the lord of the rings with him and all the other books he has stacked on his Mount-to-be-Read.
Words, that's what I read. I was going to say that I read anything but that's not true. I don't like horror or blood and guts war stories and to my amazement I cannot read fantasy at the moment.
It appears that I am selective about the words I read now and this has only happened as a direct result of the deppression I suffered after caring for my parents for four years. Difficult to believe that two years after they have both passed on I am still feeling the effects - difficult but not impossible to believe.
What sort of reading material would I take with me if I had to cut off the world? Well it would have to be something I can read and then read again. I would not try any of those "classics" I couldn't read them twenty years ago so I am not going to waste time trying again. I have Bill Bryson - all of his books - I have Deric Longden - all his books - I have several by Alison Weir that can be read again. I have Alan Bennett Writing Home and Untold Stories, I have Garrison Keillor. Ah, I see a pattern here. All the books I can read again and again are non-fiction. I can't think of any fiction that I have read that I would want to read again, although I might find in a couple of years that I can happily read any fiction and not remember the story so I can re-read them.
Hmmmm perhaps the encyclopedia Brittanica should go on my list too, I would certainly find that interesting - oh and I am not going without Mr M. He'll take the lord of the rings with him and all the other books he has stacked on his Mount-to-be-Read.