It’s been a busy week here in Plainview, TX with final preparations for today’s piano competition taking much of my time. Still, I managed to keep up with my daily reading goal — and that makes me very happy!
This week I finished Pat Williams’ Read for Your Life and I continue to be moved and influenced by what I read. It is still amazing that you can return to a book that you read almost 10 years ago and the text continues to resonate and challenge.
I decided it was time for a little YA reading and picked up Dear Evan Hansen at the local library. I am aware of the score for this musical hit, but I didn’t know much about the plot — except for Evan Hansen’s arm cast. I’m a little over 200 pages in and completely mesmerized by the story. I should get it finished this weekend before diving into The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers as the next installment in My Library Shelf project.
Of course, I’m still working my way through the Brahms biography. Haven’t made much progress on this front this week. I just couldn’t think about investing mental energy into something so studious in this exhausting week. I’m planning to get back into the biography this week. I really want to make some more headway in that one.
I treated myself to a nice lunch in Amarillo this afternoon after the piano competition. Since I was so close, I simply had to step into Barnes and Noble to see if there was anything that I needed. My TBR pile is already huge, but I added three new titles to the stack today.
Some more light reading for when I’m ready to move out of fiction for a while. Of course, these will come after finishing the Brahms!
So, 2 1/2 weeks into 2020 and I have completed 3 books — only one of which was an audio book. I think I’ll have 2 or 3 more completed by the end of the month….assuming next week’s Piano Duo recital does not need massive amounts of work. It probably will, but I am still determined to do at least an hour of reading every day. I’m hoping for more than just 60 minutes. Any chance I can reframe my job to involve more reading time?
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