After my
last trip to London
(I spent it mostly in bookstores) and my huge pile of new books, which I amazingly
enough fit into my bookshelves somehow, I decided that I need to read some of
my many many unread books - they are all really cool, interesting, nice onces, so I really want to read them - before buying new ones.
I found a challenge
on a German blog where followers commit themselves to a book buying ban from
August 29th until October 9th. There is the option of
buying three books during this time when using a joker but you can only use a
joker after you read 3 unread books. Maybe I’ll join them.
This is why
I am standing in front of my bookshelf daily and cannot decide which book to
read. I started so many in the last days and they never felt right. Maybe it is
just time that university starts again. I really need a clear structure in my
day. If I don’t have that I tend to just lie around, doing nothing and getting bored,
which also leads to a major reading crisis. When I am bored I normally don’t
like to read. I don’t know why but unfortunately that’s the case. I start
reading my book and after some time I either fall asleep or start watching TV. Hopefully
this will diminish over the weekend but if not than it will take some time
before I will finish my next book.
Do you have
any tricks against a reading crisis?
On the
other hand I really love this time of year. I love the feel of a new school
year which for me resembles a start of a new year. I start planning my next semester,
figuring out which courses to take, getting cross with the university because
all the interesting courses I wanted to take are at the same time, I am able to
buy a new calendar without feeling sorry for my old one because it is the
beginning of a new year (kind of illogical, I know) and so on and so forth.
So right
now I am kind of feeling strange because I would like to plan and order my life
and on the other hand I am so not motivated to do anything.
I found the
following picture somewhere on the internet and I think it really fits my
situation right now:
So long and
thanks for all the fish!
