This week has not been the most productive reading week of my life, but somehow I have still managed to read daily. The week started with a nasty stomach bug that knocked me flat and had both me and my physician expecting a positive COVID test result. Thankfully, that was not the case, but I experienced extreme fatigue all week long as I tried to recuperate and navigate professional development meetings at week’s end.
I did manage to complete one audio book this week, finally bringing the story of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to its thrilling conclusion this morning. My plan was to listen to audio books while doing some crafting each day. It worked well before this week, but with the illness, I simply wanted to enjoy some silence when I could to stop the throbbing in my head.
I have several other books in progress at the moment. As part of the research for one of my lectures, I did some reading in Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. It presented some fascinating material, but I don’t anticipate that I will finish reading the work. During professional development, the keynote speaker was a C.S. Lewis specialist. I have always been fascinated by Lewis, so when the recommendation was made to read The Great Divorce, I grabbed a digital copy that evening and began reading. I haven’t made much progress, but I don’t think I was really in the right mood to tackle the fable.
The remaining book that has my attention at the moment is Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer. As you may recall, I read the Clifton Chronicles over the past few years and really fell in love with Archer’s story telling. While I have not gotten very far in Sons of Fortune, this seems to be another marvelous story featuring twin brothers who were separated at birth. Currently, both boys are studying at boarding schools and have hopes of dating the same girl. Yep, that’s a sure formula for drama and sibling rivalry — although neither boy knows of the other’s existence. Sons of Fortune is right at 500 pages in length, so I expect to be living with this novel for a while. I’m hoping that my reading juju will return and I’ll begin to make some headway into the book in the week ahead.
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