I’m taking the day off to read. To just sit around and get lost in someone else’s story. Zorba the Green or Chronicles of Narnia. Nothing practical, but there’s something eminently useful in indulging in the impractical now and then.
There will be no errands run, no showers had, no self-help readings, self-promotion or ticking off of things on a list. Just a luscious day in bed with the kitties losing myself in words written by anyone else but me.
Feel free to suggest the books you lose yourself in when you do. And I strongly urge you to schedule a day off to lose yourself in one of them….
Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume or Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth. I’ve read Jitterbug perfume at least 5 times and it’s one of the few books I’ve ever read more than once. I’m generally not a Ken Follett fan but I saw him talk about this book(which is Michener-ian in scope) and that he had written it to show how the early church used religion to keep the poor and uneducated, poor and uneducated. Not sure I got that out of it but it is the only book I’ve ever read than had me crying like a baby.
@Juel, My “re-reads” are always To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies. But this time around I needed something…lovely, rather than thought provoking. Chronicles of Narnia are perfect. I can’t believe I never read them as a kid.
Chronicles was not on my reading list as a child either. My parents were perhaps a bit too permissive in my choices. I read Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels when I was 11. I had to keep a good dictionary close by. I vaguely remember Lord of the Flies and never have read To Kill a Mockingbird all the way through. It was a bit too close to home. Are you familiar with Joe R. Lansdale? He’s my current favorite writer, both the absurdly funny things and the very serious (The Bottoms)
Enjoy the rest of your sick day.