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I have an ongoing fascination with the way things intersect in our lives — how you do a new thing you’ve never done but Oh! completely unexpectedly it overlaps or intersects or has some deep resonance with something else you just did. I am particularly obsessed with this when it comes to reading (see “Good Things Come in Pairs” on this page) — it always feels like you somehow came to exactly the right thing at the right moment when those resonances happen.
Right now I am reading The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit and yesterday I read this quote that just dug deep down into the heart of me:
The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we’re meant to love, barely find our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe everyday.
Today I was reading Lizzy House‘s blog and saw this:
Dang, world.
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I feel alone.
I don’t mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants twisted up around my waist. I feel alone as if it were an actual thing, seeping throughout this whole level like mist blanketing a field, reaching into all the hidden corners of my room and finding nothing living but me. It’s a cold sort of feeling, this.
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns
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I actually think I didn’t buy any other books in February except a couple for the classroom, which I don’t include on these lists.
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I decided I can only let myself buy two books a month thanks to the current financial straits. Therefore I have/had to wait until February to buy the final Wheel of Time book. That’s OK b/c I have very little time to read right now anyway as I’m not taking much public transit right now which is my #1 reading time. I have almost no free time even when I’m at home right now–teaching is almost a 24 hour job and then only hours I’m not either at school or working on stuff for school are when I need to be sleeping. Yeah it’s super exhausting.
*Technically I already own one of these as a stand-alone…but they just collected the first four to go with the new #5 that just came out and it was on sale at my local store for $20 with 10% off and that’s cheaper than buying a $8-$10 paperback of the three I don’t have…
And then I read this quote about his writing process
and now I love him even more.
I highly recommend his stories. Wicked funny.
date refers to date finished; i.e., just b/c I finished two books in a given day doesn’t mean I read two entire books that day!
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Slow month for reading. Mostly because I didn’t like the Eugenides very much so when I had reading time I didn’t necessarily use it. Also I wasn’t on public transportation almost all month which is my primary reading time.