Reading

For those of you who don't remember, I was beyond burned out when I graduated college. Being an English major, my life was reading and writing. I loved it, mostly, but by the time graduation rolled around, I hadn't read for pleasure in a long time, and it was hard to get back into the swing of things.

Also, I was concerned with job hunting back then, and my fiance lived so far away from me that I felt like I was constantly driving. Then, I moved to Tuscaloosa, got a job, got very busy with that job, and was consumed by wedding planning. Then I was moving again before I knew it. Now I have lots of downtime and I've finally started reading again. When I say I didn't read before, I mean that I probably read what most adults read -- a little bit. I have always loved magazines, and I would read the occasional novel, but it took a long time. That's not normal for me. I used to devour books, and I'm finally there again.

Since I've moved to Prattvegas, I have read The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg, Wigfield by Amy Sedaris and various other authors, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, and am now working on Soldier's Pay by the great Faulkner. (To be fair, I started that one last winter but it somehow got forgotten.)

Now that's more like it.

What are you reading?