Books are so Wonderful!
Woman in the Middle | June 25, 2012I love books and I love to read. My idea of heaven is every book I could ever want to read and reading until my eyeballs pop our of my head! But it was brought home to me again yesterday how wonderful books are when you are trying to take your mind off of something unpleasant. I am warning you right now that the following may be a bit “TMI.” Sorry about that. I can’t help that it isn’t my arm or my foot that is bothering me….
I woke up yesterday feeling fine. But by 10 am I realized I wasn’t so fine. By 11:20 I was headed off to Urgent Care. That is how fast a bladder infection hit! Fun times! I dragged a nice thick book with me, thinking that it would see me through. Ha! I was in urgent care three hours before I saw a doctor and, as my bladder reacted more and more violently towards the infection that was taking over, I became less and less enamored with my book selection. As a distraction a book about the Bush family dynasty, even a gossipy one by Kitty Kelly, just didn’t cut it!
Fast forward and I finally got home at about 3 pm. I was happy as can be to be back to my own house, my own bed, and my own bathroom. I started taking the various drugs that Hubby rushed out to get me from the pharmacy but I still needed a distraction while I waited for them to work their magic. That was when my eyes fell on a book that Youngest Daughter gave me for Mother’s Day. It was called “True Mom Confessions” and it was just the kind of light, humorous, and easy to read book I needed at that moment. I read the whole thing yesterday afternoon and about the time I got done the medicine kicked in and I felt….better. Not fantastic, but better.
I will be keeping that book around for a while, if for no other reason than out of grateful appreciation for its help yesterday afternoon. Thank you, “True Mom Confessions.”
I just read a book that was great at first, but then it got SO BORING that I skimmed the last 200 pages. Yes, you read that right, I skimmed the remaining 200 pages! This book has 727 pages in it. I don’t know WHY it is considered one of the best books ever, but what can you do? Have you ever heard of The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand? It was recommended to me, but I wonder if the people who recommended it actually made it to the end!
Yeah…no…if is is considered a classic I tend to run awy from it as fast as possible! Which distresses my English major daughter! She is currently reading some obscure Jane Austin novel for fun!
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