Talking About Books

Earlier this year, I spent Memorial Day weekend up in Cleveland visiting family and friends. That Sunday night a group of friends and I went out to a bar to watch the Cavs game. We were sitting around on a holiday weekend eating nachos at the bar watching the game, so naturally we started talking about… books. Yes you read that right, book talk at the bar. I didn’t even bring them up; someone else started talking about needing to create their summer reading list since summer was approaching. Then somehow that led to a much longer discussion on who was reading what lately and what they liked or didn’t like about it.

I love talking about books so I was quite happy with the discussion topic, but it still struck me as odd that in the last place I’d expect to be talking about books, we suddenly were. When you are out with a group of friends do you ask what they are currently reading? What books are making up your summer reading list this year?

Current Read: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
I really love this book! It is a set of essays written on pop culture and a fairly easy light read.

Read On

Since I started working for the library almost four years ago, I never feel like I’m reading enough. Books have always been a big part of my life but during college I never seemed to find the time to read for pleasure. During the school year I was reading only textbooks and then during breaks I never found the time to sit down and enjoy a book. I started working for CML my junior year of college and right away remembered how much I used to love to read.

The first few weeks I worked for the library, I was taking home stacks of books. I was still in school though so I wasn’t reading as quickly as I used to. At some point I came up with a system of keeping a list of all the books that passed in front of me that I wanted to read. I kept this list for many years and then last summer I found out about GoodReads. I’m constantly finding books I want to read, my GoodReads list of “to-read” is usually somewhere around 120. I love this website, it keeps all the books on my list organized and gives me a great place to find new reads. It’s also completely free! All you need is an e mail account, if you don’t have one you can get one through Gmail.

I’m not sure if I’ll ever get through all the books on my “to read” list. I do know I’ll keep trying and keep finding books to read. I just love to read. With the turn of a page you are taken away. Why do you love to read? What kinds of books do you like to read for pleasure?

Current read: Good Grief by Lolly Winston