smartyjones Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 my kids signed up for our library summer reading program. this year they are having an adult version. you rate books you've read and for each rating entry, you're entered into a drawing for a color Nook. i assume it's fiction books and not the rating of my usual reading list. could i possibly do an entertaining book ? right now, i've got jenny mccarthy and her dr, how to heal autism and i just picked up one i ordered on auditory processing disorder. could i actually read a fiction book?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaesMom Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 this post made me laugh! I have two fiction books that I really want to read -one from the library & one from a friend. Both are sitting untouched on my counter because I feel so quilty just thinking about the time I will spend enjoying myself and escaping from the day to day reality of life. I mean how could I be soooo selfish to even allow myself to think about doing something for myself SHAMEFUL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimballot Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 I indulge in audiobooks on an MP3 player - I can download them free from the local library and I listen while I clean or do outside work. I actually look forward to the annual garage clean up knowing I can be entertained while I do it... AND I am able to have conversations with other adults about popular books. I don't admit that I did not actually sit down and READ it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philamom Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 (edited) delete Edited June 7, 2011 by philamom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffany_v Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 This post makes me smile, I am going through the same thing! I am part of book club and had been looking forward to reading our books each month, and meeting with girlfriends to have dinner and talk (about the book and other things), however as this months book sits on my counter, all I can think about it reading more about PANDAS and when the book Saving Sammy: The boy who caught OCD will show up in my mailbox! Maybe someday I will get to my thoughtless fun fiction books again! ;o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomWithOCDSon Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 I hardly ever read fiction anymore. Even when I'm not reading about kids or immune disorders or processing disorders or OCD, I find myself picking up nonfiction books like "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World" or "Reality is Broken." Just this week, though, I decided to read one of the two books on my DS14's summer reading list for entering high school while he reads the other one. He's reading "Rules of the Road" by Joan Bauer, and I'm reading "Twisted" by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's fiction, but anything but frothy or light, summer reading. I'm a little concerned, frankly, about DS reading it, as I'm certain it'll set off some scrupulosity issues over the very bare, teenage issues it addresses (alcohol, sex, bullying, selfhood, parental vulnerability). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterflymom Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 (edited) = Edited October 8, 2015 by tampicc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EAMom Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 I do audiobooks (transfered onto an ipod) from the library too. I listened to the whole Twighlight series, a few books by Barbara Kingsolver, Room, a James Patterson detective novel, and The Help in the past year. I mainly listen when I walk the dog, and sometimes when folding laundry etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airial95 Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm part of a book club as well.. it was actually started by a girlfriend of mine who decided she agreed with my husband that I needed more "me time" and started the book club with the intention of getting me out of the house once a month and giving me an outlet to relax (since I love to read any chance I get - but like you, my reading lists have been limited lately!) It's been great!! We're not lmited to specifcally non-fiction, but that's what we gravitate to. We've even started reading books that are being turned into films so we have an excuse for another girls night when we all go see the movie!! Our whole group now has kindles/ipads, so I'm thinking of suggesting "Out of the Fog Into the Light" as one of our upcoming selections...I think they'd all be interested in just a tiny glimpse of life as a PANDAS parent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartyjones Posted June 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2011 (edited) okay -- i'm losing it! today i picked up ds9's The Strange Case of Origami Yoda -- kind of like a wimpy kid book. i read it and laughed and laughed out loud -- at 4th grade boy humor! don't think that's going to win me a Nook either! i'm putting The Help as my goal. Edited June 9, 2011 by smartyjones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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