logovo | Notes on reading these past 6 months

Even as I find it more and more difficult to read fic (get distracted, bored, not in the mood, whatever) I'm enjoying reading original fiction and some non-fiction in huge, huge amounts. At least huge compared to what I was managing to read last year.

I read a couple of superduper weird and interesting fiction books (Infinite Jest and 2666), read some short stories, which I usually avoid, and managed to finish stuff like Children of Men (which was better as a movie, and less with PD James' creepy religious imagery) and just this month gave up very quickly on Under the Dome by Stephen King.

I feel very grateful to the hours of enjoyment I got out of King's writing while in high school and college, it was one way I learned to read in English. However, it seems that now everytime I pick up one his novels I feel like I've read it all before. I've liked King, his public persona, for a long time, what he has to say about books and writing and his own talent. I so wish he really did have in him something new I could enjoy, but I guess the gift is what it is and will just remember his stuff fondly.