I've been doing more fiction reading this year than I have in a while. Amazing what a library card can do for a person.
The only problem is that the library only allows two-week loans and sometimes I don't have as much time to read as I'd like. Or I'd rather unwind at the end of the day by doing something else.
As an example, I returned a book today that I felt stressed about reading because it was due! I finished the book. I liked the book. But reading isn't supposed to be filled with deadline anxiety. (That's for writing.) Someone was on the wait list for the book, so I couldn't renew it. It was either finish it or get back on the wait list myself.
I have another library book on my eReader, but I have 12 days before that is due, so I can just enjoy it rather than stress read. :-)
And I can't talk about reading without discussing my book journal. I like the opening pages that I created, but the individual book pages don't look cute. I don't know how some people can just put together these outstanding spreads so easily. It must be because I didn't get the artistic gene. It makes me sad because I enjoy having a book journal.
I'm behind on filling in my thoughts on a ton of books. During the May Readathon, I was reading too fast and furiously to fill it in. Afterward, I forgot a lot of details. The biggest problem is all the Jayne Castle (JAK) Harmony books I glommed during the month. I have them all confused in my head and now I need to review them so that I can fill in the notes sections. Of course, I also read these books out of order, so I'm thinking maybe I should just reread all of them and do it right this time.
Only I have library books to get to. I've already delayed holds on multiple books, some of them more than once, because I have other books already checked out.
