Holiday Break Reading Broke a Pandemic “Curse”

Holiday Break Reading Broke a Pandemic “Curse”

What I am about to share makes me feel slightly vulnerable and yet, nonetheless, I want to share this message today as I hope it is relatable. 

🦋🦋🦋Sometime during the pandemic I stopped reading for pleasure one book every three to five weeks or so. I don’t exactly recall when or how, but my screen time definitely picked up. 

===> I used to co-lead a longstanding book club, read on my own all types of stories and nonfiction, and then suddenly nothing at all in my spare time. 

🏖️🏝️🌊☀️When my husband and I decided to go on a last minute vacation last month, we both brought books, six or seven in total and I had four I was determined to complete. 

****I had started and stopped all four of them before which frustrated me to no end. I couldn’t figure out why.

Now, I may never know exactly how I got stuck but I can tell you made time to read all four books start to finish and feel motivated now to keep reading at my pre-pandemic pace. 

🌞🌞🌞Thanks to Nelson A. Diaz for asking me to read and to my many peers who inspired me as well. Thank you! 

👓 In order, here’s what I read and I recommend all four:

📘 Nelson Diaz’s memoir, Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aquí ni de Allá

📗Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts, by Brené Brown

📙 World Travel: An Irreverent Guide (2021)

Published posthumously, World Travel is a compendium of Anthony Bourdain’s travel insights and advice, compiled by his longtime collaborator and associate TV producer Laurie Woolever

📕 Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778 by Norman E. Donoghue II