Reading for Me

As readers, we know the power of words to adequately describe emotions and feelings. That’s why I have carefully chosen my words when describing the past week. This week has SUCKED! Perhaps I will explain more in a future post, but right now my emotions are still too raw and I continue to process events.

Because the week has been so bad, reading has not been a priority nor a source of joy. I could not focus on anything, so I attempted to reduce the expectation for daily reading to just completing a chapter. Still, this brought no peace or respite. I think part of the problem had to do with the novel I had chosen. This week, I began reading Small Treasons by Mark Powell. The premise was interesting and Powell’s writing was quite good. The topic of terrorism and the unnatural obsession with it was simply too heavy for my mind right now.

I will be returning Small Treasons to the Unger Library shelf later this weekend and find a lighter read in my personal collection. Right now, I need to read of happy times and the joys of friendship when things are right in the world.

Things have been extremely busy in west Texas this week. Once I got home in the evening, the only thing I really wanted to do was go to bed! Still, I managed to do a little reading each day to keep my reading streak alive.

Early this week, I decided that I needed something a little different from the typical books that I have lying around my apartment. So I headed to Unger Library to pick up a couple of novels. I’m currently working my way through the next installment of the James Patterson Women’s Murder Club Series. I’m over halfway through The 20th Victim, but I just ran out of reading steam this week. Hoping to have a completion in the next few days though. While I was in the library, I decided it was a good time to select another book from My Library Shelf to see if I can get closer to reading my way through the chosen shelf of the local library. The next book I plan to dive into is Small Treasons by Mark Powell.