Kari Brooks

this is not news to anyone… but, i love to read.
it is one of my most favorite hobbies.
since i was a little girl, i have loved to read. (although a few of the book series that i was obsessed with during high school are a little embarrassing… ahem, v.c. andrews.) people have such a hard time with the idea that derek and i do not have a tv in our house. no one can comprehend what we must do with our time. i read.
by far, my most busy reading time is the summer. naturally this is because of teaching, i have a few more hours in the summer of my own time. because i teach at an extended year school i have about 5 weeks of “summer break.”
and it is fair to say that i spent about 90% of that time sitting in the back yard, with the dog, just reading. i love it.
in fact, i am pretty sure that in that 5 week time frame i read about 25 books. which is not an insane amount by any means, but is a considerably larger amount than the 13 measly books i have read in the past 24 weeks.
this past summer derek suggested that i create a google document, inventorying what books i have… kind of like my own little on line library.
(OASN: it would have been heaven if i could have just filled out a form, by hand, inventorying my books, with a fresh blue ballpoint bic pen… but i typing into google documents was slightly satisfying as well.)
in the process of that inventory i decided that my top 5 favorite books of all time are:
the red tent
atonement
the birth of venus
educating esme
the story of edgar sawtelle

also, in the process of that inventory, i came across a book i bought this summer, no one cares what you had for lunch: 100 ideas for your blog.
obviously i was too busy reading to actually do anything that book suggested…

here’s hoping for a new balance of the two.