I am about done with winter. The first Polar thingie was somewhat exciting but being cooped up indoors is about to drive me crazy. I think it is worse now that I have a fitbit and I get like 600 steps a day. I feel like the biggest sloth ever but there is only so many times I can do laps around the house without making myself dizzy. I will be going back to my apt in NE Ohio on Friday. I know more north more snow but at least there I have IRL friends and you have to admit, Ohio has a library system that can’t be beat. True story. I found out that my library here in KY DOES have ILL system but here in a rural area you have to tell the librarian what books you want and they will order them for you. So I was all excited. I was like I will test it with a book I want to re-read Getting Things Done by David Allen. So I told the librarian and it took forever (compared to Ohio) for the book to get to my library. My mom was went to pick it up since I don’t have a car here and wait for it…..it was A BOOK ON TAPE! I am profoundly Deaf. I am so Deaf I can’t even hear a jumbo jet right next to me let alone a book on tape. The librarian KNEW this as I was using paper and pen to communicate with her. At first I was confused. I was all like, wait, you ordered a book on tape for a DEAF person? Then it hit me people out there confuse deaf and blind all the time. I mean in airports they have brought me a person to lead me to my next plane and wheelchairs so why wouldn’t a librarian get confused? It all got straitened out and yesterday they called and said my book (on paper) was ready to be picked up. Yippie!!!
I made a spreadsheet of books read this year. I wanted to track more info than what was on GoodReads. So far I have been painstakingly putting in all the info that I wanted to track. Now all I have to do is learn how to add and stuff on Google spreadsheets and I can really delve into the information.
I have not read as much as I would have liked so far this year. I blame The Goldfinch. I bought into all the hype surrounding the book and read it for 12 looooong days before I gave up. I only had like 200 pages to go but I was so pissed that I couldn’t bear to give it another page of my time. I wonder what all the people were hyping on that book about. Action happens every 250 pages. I know, I charted it. I was like PEOPLE IN THE BOOK, DO SOMETHING! I have read better accounts of people doing drugs and getting high and whatever else the author was trying to do. I would have been even madder if I had actually bought the book but it was a library book so I tell myself to calm down it is just a book.
Have you ever been mad over a book you expected to love then feel like you got duped?
Yes. Usually it’s a book that’s much too long too like The Goldfinch and why I tend to prefer shorter books. I don’t have as much invested in them. 🙂