Jaye Reads

While at a book club meeting a couple weeks ago, one of the members pulled out a book.  This shouldn't be surprising, as we were at a book club meeting and in the basement of a library.  It wasn't a reading book though.  It was a directory.  In this directory, she didn't keep track of people's names and numbers, she kept track of books and authors.  This tiny 90 year old lady wrote down every book that she read.

I was intrigued by this idea.  I tend to read in any moment of the day that I don't have anything else to do.  Whether that is lounging in the hot tub, sitting in a car while my husband drives or slowly waking up and getting ready to take on the day.  I wind down with reading.  I escape the pressures of house keeping, work and parenting by pulling out a book and letting myself be whisked away into another time and place...another story.  It's a distraction for me transporting from the here and now and into a reality that's different.

I get so involved with reading that I often follow up a book with reading about that book.  I look online for other peoples reviews, I watch the movie if it's available, I research events or things that stand out for me in the story.  I like to delve deeper and grasp on to a little bit more of the story before I let it go.

I love talking about what I've read.  I sometimes will do this with the husband, boring him with plots and frustrations or pleasures that I have taken out of the book.  He isn't a reader though and I like to mull things over with other readers, which is why I love my book club.  Even if I don't like the book they have picked, I perservere through it until I reach the end, Just so I can tell them how much I liked or disliked it and why!

So I figured this blog can serve a two-fold for me.  It can be an outlit where I can discuss what I have read, and my further inquiries into the books.  A chance to hold onto the story just a little bit longer...  It can also be a directory for me.  I can look back and see the books I have read over the course of a year or two and keep track of the ones I have liked or disliked, of authors I have liked or not.  I am a rereader and will often go back to an old book like picking up the phone and calling an old friend.

So here I go...