Book of the Month… Time Flies!

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I love reading. The idea of not being able to put a good book down, finding a new series to dive into, swapping stories of great reads with complete strangers… I love it all.

When I came up with the idea of blogging about doing something new every day this year, one of my categories I cooked up that got me the most excited was the Book of the Month. Unfortunately, now I am being reminded…  daily… why I never read very much anymore. It is just a hard activity to wedge in daily, even just one monthly book. I am lucky to be part of many fabulous groups- family, extended family, church, schools, neighborhood, etc. Wonderful people and a home that all keep me hopping. I can’t complain, I can only praise and be thankful.

But, I do miss reading.

I sat down for the first time this month to start to read my book for the month“Hild,” by Nicola Griffith. Several chapters in, and this is proving to be a good read. I could use a good dictionary of Old English/Old Scottish/Various Other Lost Languages of the Island…

This novel could use a glossary. Correction- this novel has a glossary, and it also has a fabulously responsive author! Nicola Griffith, thank you for commenting that not only is there a glossary in the back as part of the author’s notes, but there are extras available on your blog here on WordPress- NicolaGriffith.com/2014/02/24/hild/

May Read: C. S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”

CS Lewis The Screwtape Letters
CS Lewis “The Screwtape Letters”

Ever start a good book but never get around to finishing it?

“That’s just crazy talk,” say all the bibliophiles. I know, I know…crazy!
The first time I picked up C. S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” life just got in the way of my finishing it. I still have the book and intend on starting over from Chapter 1 tonight.

This time I picked up the book, I noticed to whom it was dedicated: J. R. R. Tolkien.

Happy reading, all!

CS Lewis
CS Lewis “The Screwtape Letters”

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough
or a book long enough to suit me.”

“You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.”

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”

C. S. Lewis