Well, besides the usual housework, cooking, errands, shopping, and so on, the answer would be reading. I love to read, but over the past few years I’ve been easily distracted by other things, such as TV and surfing the Internet and such. Evidence of my failure to keep up with my reading is apparent in the stack of unread magazines and loaned books next to my recliner.
So, as I explain on another page (see the tabs above and check the one entitled “Reading 2012″), I’m trying to read more. On the Reading 2012 page, I mention a reading challenge. Our little group was given a list and we are to find a book that meets the criteria given in that list. We’re to be as original as we can. This is a bit more difficult that it first appears! The criteria:
* a book with a direction in the title (example: up, down, left, right, north, south, east, west)
* a book with a wild animal in the title (no house pets or farm animals – must be wild or in a zoo animals)
* a book with an extended family member in the title (example: grandparents, cousins, aunt, uncle)
* a book with a weather condition or event in the title (example: ice, rain, hurricane, tornado)
* a book with a profession in the title (example: doctor, lawyer, Indian chief)
* a book with a medical condition or illness in the title (example: menopause, cancer, vocal cord polyp)
I’m currently reading the “direction” book. I have the “weather” book, the “extended family member” book, and the “profession” book. When I have time, I plan to head to our small local library and browse the shelves for the “wild animal” book and the “medical condition or illness” book. I found one for each of these, but they’re both for purchase and not for check-out, and one is an ebook…and I don’t own an e-reader.
Fortunately, since we’ve been swapping around so many books among ourselves and our “TBR” (to be read) stacks are growing, we have a year to find, read, and report these challenge books.
That’s what I’ve been doing.
How about you?
