Book Issues
January 19, 2006 2:25 a.m.

I know this seems a lame topic for an entry, but I can't help it. I have issues, I tell you! Issues!

Okay, so what are my issues. Well, first off I'm neurotic. I can't go to bed without reading. Well, okay, I can if the boyfriend is here, but that just means we get in bed, and have cuddling and sex. But the point being, I can't just get into bed and decide to sleep. I have wind down a bit, then get in to bed, get settled and then go to sleep, so usually this settling is reading. Now, I'm very particular about bed time reading. and don't ask me my criteria for bedtime reading because I can't explain it, all I know is when something doesn't feel right.

I've been reading the Cheese Monkeys, and it's fabulous! I love it! .....but it's and afternoon book. I could go to a coffeehouse and sit for hours and finish it. I think that's really what I need to do with that one. it is fun, hysterical, and very light and fast to read, but I don't want to be that mentally stimulated before bed, I want to relax. But that doesn't mean I want something boring, it's a very fine line.

I've been reading Narnia and I just started a new book and I haven't really gotten into it yet and I'm a little distracted from it.

And really, The Tyrant is fantastic, but it's not something for light reading. It is very dense and requires me full attention. And I don't want to ruin my reading experience or disrespect that book by reading it when I'm tired and not all that focused.

Now, I've been reading the most of Harry Potter. Which I've read a few times before, and it is great. But I've read it before, and I'm not entirely interested or focused,....but it's best fit of everything.

I also want something in my reading level. I don't want something dense and demanding, but I don't want to read youth fiction.

Most of the books on my shelf that I have yet and are for an adult reader are very dark, very heavy, and I just don't want to go to that place right now. I need something light, but not too light. Something relaxing, but not boring. Something not exceptionally difficult but not to simple....Nothing dark, but nothing to fluffy.

So then I go to the bookstore and I wander around and I can't find anything to meet my criteria. I don't want lame historical fiction. I don't want a bodice ripper, I don't want a book about the problems of an insecure modern woman and her search to find herself and love along the way. Yes, I love watching sex and the city, but I don't want to read that kind of thing, it's trite and annoying and makes my ass tired. I don't want a horror novel or a thriller. Not a coming of age story or a fantasy novel. (I don't think....maybe I do.....but wait, the light ones are easy to read and the more complicated ones are dark. fuck there’s the rub)

I'm not too keen about reading non fiction before bed...again would like to be alert and reading in the afternoon.

Honestly, Fuck! I'm having book issues.

I have the fantasy book "Forever" in my car that I think I will start, but I really don't want to start another book, I want to finish the ones I'm reading, but damnit, I'm just not in the mood. Fuck! Ass!

anyway, I actually am in the mood for Harry Potter tonight (curious to read Percy's letter again. Oh the things I know just by rereading book 5 after reading 6. Muwahahaha!).

so reading I shall go and then with the sleep. heh, I guess this might be a call for suggestions.