Reading Room

When I was in High School, I enjoyed reading books, all sorts, from a variety of authors. I would stay up way too late on a school night, reading, just thinking, I will finish this chapter and go to bed. Only to realize, it was almost time to get up and get ready for school. But for some reason, when I got to college, my attention span for books went the way of the Dodo. I would pick a book up, and be bored by it about an hour later. I have tried a few different times, and a few different types, from Glenn Beck's book, which I thought I would enjoy, since I liked his show. Got bored with it. I then tried John Daly's auto-biography. I figured, it was about a golfer, who liked to drink too much, and made a spectacle of himself, surely that would be a good read. It was, for the first half, then I lost interest, and have not picked it back up. I had all but given up, on what used to be something I really enjoyed.

But in the airport last week, I decided to pick up a book again, I had not read a fiction novel in years. I had gotten tired of just reading magazines, that take about 20 minutes to go through. Since I really don't have the attention span to read articles more than a page or two long. But I picked up the new John Grisham book, The Appeal. I read over 60 pages between the time I got to my departure gate and when we landed in Pensacola. Then I read another 60+ pages on the return trip home. It is a good book so far, and I have enjoyed it. I will probably read a little more tomorrow.

Then, a friend, who is not a book reader at all, hands me a book he says I should read, Crashed & Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver you Never Saw. AN autobiography about a racing driver, that my friend knows. And with Motorsports being a recent infatuation of mine, I thought, if he can read it, so can I. So I am going to start that one tomorrow, he says it is a quick read, and I am looking forward to it.

I am hoping this trend continues, it sure makes those flights seem shorter. And it feels like my brain is getting a stimulation that it has not gotten in years, that of reading something other than a car magazine. Great as they are, they just pass the time.