This blog is an attempt to get some of my feelings down onto paper and hopefully, help me make my way through this very big maze. I have moved to Australia with my family to start a new life and I confess it is hard. I don't know whether I have hit an impasse or if it is a crossroad. Maybe with your help, I will work that one out.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Books..........
Reading and more reading - that is where I am at after a pretty long day tending to the daily demands of everyday living..Can you ever read enough? I read so much during my University days and then very sadly, left all that behind and found it replaced by work, or rather a career. We won't bother focussing on that but needless to say, I am back where I was in my mid 20's!!!! Yah for me and all those who can relate...So, something very light-hearted but with intrinsic messages hidden between the lines..The Idle Parent by Tom Hodgkinson. I have laughed so much..Thank you Tom!!!! A parenting book, if I dare call it that. A rejection of so many imposed ideas and it is simply refreshing. Ok, so some of it, in my opinion, is tongue-in-cheek and maybe some ideas are just not very feasible with our particular characters, well at least mine.. But I just love the way he so flippantly casts so many things to one side and thus relieving the pressure off without all that ridiculously self-inflicted guilt!!!!!!!!!!! Read it..I don't think like-minded people will disagree with much of what Tom Hodgkinson has to say..And for the ever-curious..read it anyway..Another book to your repertoire..
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I think you should May Contain Nuts by John O Farrell, its a wonderfully funny book. I think O'Farrell gives great insight into the workings of a mother's mind, whilst also mocking the lunacy of the middle class.
ReplyDeleteCan you ever read enough? No, I don't think you can, and I aslo think it doesn't matter what you read. When we read to ourselves, it is a special, quiet moment of escape. To torture me would be to imprison me and deny me access to any writing. I would go insane. Keep writing Little Luz, keep writing.
Thank you for the recommendation!!!!! Always open to suggestions..Forever curious..And a man with a great insight into the workings of a mother's mind - how incredulous is that? We are our own worse enemies, I am sure of it. Will keep writing, thank you!!!
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