Day 3
Write about your favorite books, magazines, etc. (anything you read)
I have to admit, I don't read as often as I would like to read. I am a poor reader. I get a book, start the first page, and with any luck at all, finish the 1st chapter and put down the book and never pick it up again. I have to have a books catch my interest in order for me to finish it. and very few books have done that. If I try to finish a book by forcing myself to read, I fall asleep with my eyes open while I skim through the last chapters. Don't ask me how that's possible, it just is with me. So if anyone recommends to me a book or lets me borrow one, don't think I'll read it just like that. just tell me to find it in my own time and if I decide I want to read out of the blue, I will. My mind is strange sometimes. But again, I have to have a really interesting book steal my attentions. And only I can find out for myself how interesting it is. You can recommend to me a book to read that's like some other book I read and is a lot like it but I doubt I'll read it because, I might be afraid it doesn't have the same taste as the one I read. But enough about my confusing reading habits. Here's a few favorites of mine that I've actually read without sleeping through.
1. Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
2. The Orphaned Anything's by Stephen Christian
3. Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman.
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (only the first one, I've yet to read the rest of the series)
5. The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
6. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
7. The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald
8. A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
And there are probably some others I'm forgetting but this is enough for now.
Believe me, I have read more than this without falling asleep. Like I said, however, it's story has to appeal to me. I'm also kind of a picky reader as well. but my mother tells me it's good to be picky sometimes. so here, I believe this is good for me to be.
At the moment, of course, never really finishing or working on finishing any of the books, I have currently started a few. One book in particular I'm eager to finish is Surprised By Joy by C. S. Lewis. Somewhat his auto-biography. and the only reason why I've not finished it is because of a quote I read somewhere by C. S. Lewis. I can't remember exactly how it went but it went along the lines that, before you start a new book, read an old book in between. I don't know if he meant to read an older book or just a book you've read before. I like the idea of reading one I've read before. In any case, I go by that rule. and I barely started Surprised By Joy when i remembered that. and so...I've been meaning to start Till We Have Faces again. One book that has been, and always will be, a favorite of mine.
If anyone couldn't tell already, C. S. Lewis is one of my heroes. I have not read all his books but from what I have read, (various quotes, Shadowlands, documentaries, etc.) I find him to have been one of the rarest found sensible men to have existed in this world. (I think I put that correctly) He admits his mistakes, explains them, and explains how he feels about them and shares the experiences he has had with God or whatever else he shares it with. He's a Christian but he's not the kind of Christian who puts you down. He told you like it was, Christian or non-Christian. In fact, he drank. He went to old pubs with his friends and talked about books and smoked pipes and just talked. Shared. was human. I like that idea very, very much indeed.
In any case, I like these books, feel free to check them out at your leisure. and I hope i can read more of your recommendations as well.
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