Note #1: I was never a big Oprah watcher, no offense to her. I like my television with zombies or X-file aliens or people stomping around the woods scaring away Big Foot, but Melodye Shore posted on Facebook about this link, so I went there and I thought, "Okay, I will do this. I need to do something to get me to blog."
Note #2: I am totally anti edicts like WHAT EVERY WOMAN should do. Because I don't like being told what to do, but I am trying to overcome this, too, along with my lack of blogging
Yeah.
That was a lot of notes.
ANYWAYS...
The first thing on the list is to write down the current book you are reading and the last movie you saw. This is completely simple. I am reading THE AENEID and the last movie I saw was THE HOBBIT. I read Virgil out loud to my kid, The Emster, last night at her request while she drew amusing things about dead world conquerors. It is so weird to read Virgil aloud, honestly. But the opening sequence where all the ships of Troy are tossed about because the goddess Juno is pissed? Totally cool. The extended metaphor about bees? Not so much. I think I can learn a lot about writing from Virgil.
So, the Oprah website says the point of this is:
Keeping a list of all the books you have read and movies you have seen will help you remember where your mind has been and also, over time, will reveal your changing tastes and moods. Like any journal, the list will start to show you your own patterns. It must mean something, for example, that every 10 years you go through a vampire stage, then a poetry palate cleanser, before diving into some classics. And if you keep a list, you won't ever have to reread the first hundred pages o Finnegans Wake efore realizing why things seem so familiar
The problem with this is that I have no desire to see what trends there are in my life via books and movies. I think the trends that would occur are actually more about what popular culture is dictating is available than an actual reflection of my inner psyche. That seems grumpy though, doesn't it? It's just I am sure that when I was 12 I would have read a zillion vampire books, but they weren't available when I was 12. Stephen King and V.C. Andrews and Victoria Holt and Richard Bach were. So, I read them. You know? Plus, I am an all over-the-map reader. This week I read Virgil, The Practical Homicide Investigation book (again), A Matter of Days (end of the word, ARC, Amber Kizer), Sherman Alexie poems, and Ghosts of New England and some sort of mystery set in Bar Harbor (I can't remember the title. I suck at titles).Yeah.
Also, I'm kind of annoyed that they wrote "poetry palate cleanser" as if vampire books needed to be cleansed.
Imagine me stomping off here with my arms crossed over my chest acting grumpy. :)
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Did you see this post of mine? Prompted by a post by my friend Kiba. Here's mine:
If You Want to Understand Me, Watch/Read This!
http://slayground.livejournal.com/72282
Happy holidays, Carrie! :)
And then, my reading is all over the place, partly due to research topics. I have a weird variety on Goodreads already. :>)
My cousin invited me to join Shelfari, but her reading interests are a lot more mainstream than mine.
Glad to see you around, though. Says Kelly, who only recently resumed blogging.
I get that you don't like to-do lists; me, either, as a rule! But you've somehow managed to spin straw into gold... I saw glimmers of creative possibilities in O Magazine's article, which is why I posted it in the first place. (That's my excuse, and I'm stickin' to it!)
Edited at 2012-12-28 08:08 pm (UTC)
I agree with you Carrie-that I read whatever I feel like. As I librarian, I don't think it's fair to be ashamed about whatever you're reading. If you like it, read it. Don't be bullied to read "classic lit" if you don't want to.
I am so glad you're a librarian! xo
* shrugs shoulders*