I have read so many books in the past 6 months. I really love mixing up genres especially chick lit and memoirs. Once a week, I pick an unusual book and because I am budgeting I have been buying books from op shops and outside bookshops in their 50c or $1 sections.
Reading helps, I've really enjoyed looking for work and then going to a park or beach to read. It also keeps me interested and when I read a memoir or a book like Traffic, I research the information and try to learn more about it.
I also have spent a lot of time in my local library reading about marketing and communications and I am doing an online marketing course at the end of November.
Here are some of my more memorable reads of late:
Cleo
Twenties Girl
Where Underpants Come From
Remembering the Bones
I Am The Messenger
Blind Submission
Straight Up and Dirty
Traffic
Textbook Romance
Everything Must Go
The Illustrated Man
Some Kind of Wonderful
The Last Anniversary
Date Expectations
The Sad Truth About Happiness
The Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman
The Last to Know
Things I Want My Daughters To Know
The Bedroom Secrets of the Masterchefs
and The Fashionistas
What books have you read lately?
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Sunday, November 15
Friday, July 3
In a moment ...
I've been reading and reading.
It seems that most of the books I have been choosing have been about choosing. About meeting someone and making choices. Or trying to figure their lives out.
It's interesting that all the books I have been reading and choosing are simply about moments. And relationships.
Like Perfect Day which is all about one day. A couple who are no longer sure about each other and in one day have to choose what they want from each other and their lives.
And The Make Up Girl who has to decide how to pull her own life together and stop living in her fantasy world and has to stop lying to everyone around her.
Or Vintage Alice which is about Alice deciding what she wants and what she is willing to leave behind.
Even though this are all light books and are very chick lit, the lead characters are all introspective and are looking for some kind of clarity and meaning in their lives. I picked these off the shelves because I am looking for clarity and meaning in my life. While job hunting. And trying to put my life into perspective.
It seems to be that our lives are made up of moments.
And that in a moment everything can change. Things can become clear and that the decisions we make are based on moments. It's easier for me to read it in a book.
It seems that most of the books I have been choosing have been about choosing. About meeting someone and making choices. Or trying to figure their lives out.
It's interesting that all the books I have been reading and choosing are simply about moments. And relationships.
Like Perfect Day which is all about one day. A couple who are no longer sure about each other and in one day have to choose what they want from each other and their lives.
And The Make Up Girl who has to decide how to pull her own life together and stop living in her fantasy world and has to stop lying to everyone around her.
Or Vintage Alice which is about Alice deciding what she wants and what she is willing to leave behind.
Even though this are all light books and are very chick lit, the lead characters are all introspective and are looking for some kind of clarity and meaning in their lives. I picked these off the shelves because I am looking for clarity and meaning in my life. While job hunting. And trying to put my life into perspective.
It seems to be that our lives are made up of moments.
And that in a moment everything can change. Things can become clear and that the decisions we make are based on moments. It's easier for me to read it in a book.
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