I was just reading “Trailblazing Physicist David Bohm and Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard on How We Shape What We Call Reality” on the Brainpickings blog by Maria Popova (as I mention on my homepage) and was reminded of a moment which occurred earlier this afternoon while sitting in my living room.
I was sitting watching my partner play Xbox and it occurred to me how many of the books we have that I haven’t read, but want to. We only have two small bookshelves in our modest apartment; one of which is filled and the other nearly filled with books that we brought from our separate collections when we moved in together. I have read a few from his bunch and most of mine, but there are a good many that I haven’t read at all.
Now while writing this and reading Popova’s article (because I’d like to read Ricard and Thuan’s (The Quantum and the Lotus), it occurs to me how many other books there are that I want to buy, fill my house with or borrow, and read - but never seem to have enough time to. I know that that sounds like a bad excuse, but it is also true right now for me. Or maybe I am just not exercising enough discipline with my time management (that is probably more accurate, if I’m honest).
I am currently reading (among required texts and articles for my grad classes, which I will not bore you with): Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair, by C.S Lewis (which my partner and I are reading out loud together), I am listening to The Fellowship of The Ring, by J.R.R Tolkien on audio-book, and I also just started A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway.
It has always been my behavior to read several things at once like this. Generally I’ll read something heavy or dense which takes longer to get through, and then I start other lighter works while I’m working on that. I also take notes on everything I read, from blogs to fiction. I write down quotes I like or words I have to look up, or just anything I find interesting in general.
Tell me what you think!
-B
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