Life has been slightly difficult lately. I might go into more detail over on the other blog, but here I'll just say that my busyness is so continual that when I get a break (as in the last 2 weeks), it's really hard to get back into the right mindset for my daily duties (getting up at 5am, seminary, planning tomorrow's lesson, work, and using the weekend to catch up on rest--except this weekend that won't happen because I'm going out of town).
However, even with this level of busyness I still manage to make time to read. I'm tearing through books that I've been meaning to read for years (emotional health sure can help the attention span)!
You may have seen the 2015 Reading Challenge that's been making the social media rounds. At first my goal was to repeat books in as many categories as I could, but based on my progress, I'd be done by June. Here's my progress so far:
| A book with more than 500 pages | Declare | Tim Powers |
| A classic romance | War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| A book that became a movie | Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
| A book published this year | The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| A book with a number in the title | 1984 | George Orwell |
| A book written by someone under 30 | Hyperbole and a Half | Allie Brosh |
| A book with nonhuman characters | Dogsbody | Diana Wynne Jones |
| A funny book | Hyperbole and a Half | Allie Brosh |
| A book by a female author | Dogsbody | Diana Wynne Jones |
| A mystery or thriller | The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey |
| A book with a one-word title | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| A book of short stories | Impossible Things | Connie Willis |
| A book set in a different country | Declare | Tim Powers |
| A nonfiction book | Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
| A popular author's first book | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie |
| A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet | Impossible Things | Connie Willis |
| A book a friend recommended | All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot |
| A Pulitzer Prize winning book | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| A book based on a true story | All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot |
| A book at the bottom of your to-read list | Blue Moon Rising | Simon Green |
| A book your mom loves | At Home in Mitford | Jane Karon |
| A book that scares you | The Road | Cormac McCarthy |
| A book more than 100 years old | War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| A book based entirely on its cover | The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey |
| A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't | ||
| A memoir | Hyperbole and a Half | Allie Brosh |
| A book you can finish in a day | Calamity Jack | Shannon Hale |
| A book with antonyms in the title | War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit | ||
| A book that came out the year you were born | Witch Week | Diana Wynne Jones |
| A book with bad reviews | ||
| A trilogy | Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake |
| A book from your childhood | ||
| A book with a love triangle | ||
| A book set in the future | 1984 | George Orwell |
| A book set in high school | The Catcher in the Rye | |
| A book with a color in the title | Blue Moon rising | Simon Green |
| A book that made you cry | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| A book with magic | Witch Week | Diana Wynne Jones |
| A graphic novel | Calamity Jack | Shannon Hale |
| A book by an author you've never read before | The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey |
| A book you own but have never read | Declare | Tim Powers |
| A book that takes place in your hometown | ||
| A book that was originally written in a different language | War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| A book set during Christmas | 101 Dalmations | Dodie Smith |
| A book written by an author with your same initials | Mary Higgins Clark | |
| A play | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt |
| A banned book | 1984 | George Orwell |
| A book based on or turned into a TV show | All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot |
| A book you started but never finished | War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
See? I'm already halfway done! The gray lines are books I haven't read yet, but plan to. War and Peace and Gormenghast will be top priority this summer. Now my goal is to complete the list without any book being listed more than twice (War and Peace may be exempt from that--it's worth 3 novels). I didn't know if I'd enjoy this reading challenge at first since I have a hard time reading books that are chosen for me (even book club books), but this is the perfect way to read a diverse set of books, many of which have been gathering dust on my shelf, instead of just sticking with Vorkosigan and Diana Wynne Jones books for the rest of the year (not that a few of those haven't already been squeezed in). Some of the books I probably wouldn't have gotten to for years (All Creatures Great and Small, The Daughter of Time, and especially Gilead) turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
On top of this, I've been reading a lot about Romanticism, the Sublime, film, and theatre design theory for my research, in addition to the scripture study as I plan my seminary lessons. My body may be exhausted, but my brain has been loving these past few months!
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