Since I returned from vacation, between catching a commuter train to Worcester at 7.15 AM at Back Bay Station to accampony one of the Residents to district court, accompanied another resident to Dorchester District court, attending workshops,hanging out at bookstores, working out at the gym, hanging out at the bookstore, work, bookstorehopping, watching all the season five Star Trek Voyager dvds(I'm a number wahid of SevenofNine and Chakotay fan and I'm getting there to complete my Voyager dvds collection.....dipidadipididu), hanging out at the booktores again and some more, and some more, prepared my dinner, out with friends and all that craps, I managed to read Love and Longing in Bombay, Mistress, Pomegranate Soup, Slapboxing with Jesus and The Last of Her Kind.
If you didn't crunch down the numbers and hours you'd probably thinking I'm busier than our prime minister, or is he busy? But trust me between those chai sipping and writing my journal at the book cafe', I still have plenty of time to see me in batik wrap swaying in a hammock on a sandy golden beach somewhere. I felt the salty air on my tounge, the heat on my skin, sands sprinkled back on the ground from my feet. Boy oh boy daydreaming is heaven.
I tried to read The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, but gave it up when I got to page 134. Not that I didn't try. I did. A woman at the gym and a man, a browser like myself at Rodney said all the wonderful things about Haruki Murakami's books, but somehow I couldn''t get myself to read past 135. To get to 135 was a struggle. I put aside. Perhaps I'll try some other time.
I'm going to have my dinner: lentils/sweet potato soup. I'll write about those books when I'm full.
Murakami is a good writer but I think not all his work would work the same way. Some are a bit ore stretched in his verbosity and some others sweet and rampant in imagination. I didn't quite enjoy the Norwegian Wood as much as I enjoyed South of the Border, West of teh Sun. In fact the latter must be one of the most poetic books I have enjoyed.
You sound like you are using your time wisely. Wise in the sense that you are doing what you love. Good for you!
kisses.
Posted by: Nina | January 22, 2007 at 06:51 AM