So little pleasure reading...

Ahh...October was a sparse reading month. :( The evils of being in graduate school! Oh, so it's not evil, but...it leaves little time for reading whole books for pleasure.

And out of those 26 books in October, 2 were for a class!

I'm anticipating that November might be a bit better, reading-wise. I do have Thanksgiving Break coming up, after all. Of course, I also have 4 big papers (one for each class!) that will be due shortly after Thanksgiving Break... But I'm hoping to get some reading done. Or at least a big batch of picture books!

If November fails to be fruitful, there's always December. :) And the big winter break between semesters!

I have found some good book quotes in my various class reading. I should post those! I'll try. :)

Holiday appropriate books

I had purchased Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak some time ago. It was short, I knew I could finish it in a day. But I left it for awhile. I wanted to savor it at an appropriate time because I know how much I liked the first six-word memoir book.

About a week before Valentine's Day, I decided that was when I'd read it. And I did.

I actually read in the restaurant where my partner and I had reservations during the hour that he was late for said reservations. Kind of bittersweet, you know? And the book was good, as I suspected. There were memorable memoirs, but of course, I wasn't in the mood or place to write them down, so I'll have to read through the book again. And I even got him to read a bit of the book.

It also inspired me to write my own six word memoirs (again), but I decided to do them on my previous relationships--my own little zine of six-word memoirs on love & heartbreak. :) I'm working on it now...

It's the first time I've ever read a holiday appropriate book on the actual holiday. Well, maybe I've read picture books before, but... It was fun.