Books

I just finished reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and now I need to find a new book to read. I hate doing this because it's such a long commitment for me (it usually takes me a month to read a book because I only read on my train rides) and I don't want to choose a shitty book (I also never stop reading a book even if I don't like it because I want to know how things turn out).

So tonight while I was trying to think of what to read next I realized that I made some really poor reading choices to go with my state of being when I first arrived. From September to November, my infant months in Chicago, I felt very awkward and depressed a lot. Correspondingly, I read Lolita and Americana, both very well written novels but not what I'd call uplifting hey there keep yer spirits up let's make it through this media (I also spent some time reading The Artist's Way, a book that is supposed to inspire you creatively). From December to February, I started to gain more confidence, meet more people, and feel like I was fitting in more. Books during that time: Breakfast of Champions, Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Choke. Again, not pure uplifters, but not dark either. March-present, I've been super busy, very happy with the work I'm doing, and have made a lot of very good friends. Reading: Love in the Time of Cholera and Midnight's Children. They speak for themselves.

I also bought an almanac that I take with me to the john to learn facts.