Mom & Pop Culture

reading mode

I've been doing a bunch of reading of late.  It's what I do when I get writer's block.  I grab a bunch of good books, and I swear that GOOD WRITING inspires me to write.  It opens up the block in my head.  Unfortunately, it sometimes fills me with murderous rage as in "why the hell can't I write like that?" 

Recently, I've devoured Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone, Jennifer Lauck's memoirs -- Blackbird and Still Waters, and a very disturbing memoir called Sickened by Julie Gregory.

i heart reading

No, seriously, I could literally read all the time.  Which is one of the reasons why I had such a hard time with babies --

1) I never found time to read and
2) When I did find time (aka on the toilet) I generally couldn't make sense of the written words on the page and
3) any quiet time with babies generally meant I took a nap and DID NOT pick up a new book.

But now that my kids are 7 and 5 my reading ability has come back with a vengeance.  I read all day -- blogs, magazines, scripts, books, etc.  I read in any spare moment I have (on the treadmill, during my children's gymnastic's classes, on the before mentioned-toilet).