It's been a long dragged out time for me. So many things going on, and I don't seem to be up for them, physically or mentally. I'm feeling better today, after a week of not quite being able to get myself together. I'm still nowhere near 100%, but I'm regaining my health, I hope, I'm here, but more in the way of a butterfly still in it's cocoon. With luck and determination I will break free of this shell when the time is right.
While I'm waiting, I'm also attempting to reorganize my reading. If you know me, I'm generally not a messy person, but my books end up everywhere. I start a book, put it down, start another one, put it down, and before you know it there are a dozen books scattered from the bedroom to the dining room to the bathroom, all in various states of completion. I'd really like to change that. I don't think I could read only one book at a time, but I should limit how many I am reading at once and make a point of finishing them.
So, my list for June is:
Christopher Hibbert - The House of Medici - Its Rise and Fall
Allen Ginsberg - Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties
Anais Nin - In Favor of the Sensitive Man
Oscar Acosta - Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Philippe Soupault - Last Nights of Paris
Perhaps a bit ambitious for one who has not maintained a reading list in ages, but I want to try for this summer at least. If I'm not able to write, I should be able to at least read. I'm also going to start marking up my books, something I've never done before. Underline passages that speak to me. Write in the margins. Learn to live with my books as living beings rather that something that should be preserved unmolested. Books want to be lived with, I think. I've always enjoyed reading a dog eared book that someone else has lived with, because it gives me insight into their minds as well. A stash of #2 pencils and a sharpener are on my list for today.
I wonder, what are your plans? What are you reading this month, or this year, or however you read?
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