Weekly Reads
My attempts to assign myself books to read is an utter and dismal failure. I start one book, put it down, and then start another. And then there are those “Come Hither” books that seduce you to reading them although they were not on your reading list at all. Damn you, Audrey Niffenegger and The Time Traveler’s Wife!
As much as I am enjoying Ms. Niffenegger’s book, I have set it aside. My list remains the same as last week’s:
- A World I Never Made, by James LePore
- The UnAmericans, by Alvah Bessie
- Men in Battle, by Alvah Bessie
- The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction, by Helen Graham
Rebeca Schiller is the editor of Alvah's Books. She reviews literary fiction and non-fiction.
You’re not a failure. You’re just human like the rest of us. I do the same thing. If you did anything else, you’d be perfect and everyone knows that perfect is b-o-r-i-n-g.
1That’s very sweet. Now I feel better. Thank you, Randy!
RS
2Why are you putting down Niffenegger to read something else? I say read it and you’ll get to the other books later. Book guilt is not a fun thing. =) Happy reading.
3Because I assigned myself the other books for this month since it is a tribute to Alvah Bessie. I’m acting exactly the same way when I was in grafuate school. All these assigned books to read for my thesis that have deadlines and then I get distracted and start reading something else. When it comes to books, I was suffer from guilt: I don’t read enough, I read junk, I read too much and ignore my husband, I don’t read fast enough, I read too quicky. The guilt list is endless.
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