Reading, Reading, Reading

Recently I've been reading again. Now this might not sound complicated or special but for me it is and here is why. As a kid I was a bookworm. I'd read every spare moment I got. However as I got older my friend/s (one in particular) would get more and more annoyed at me and my Mum and then my Dad told me to stop reading and go out instead. So I changed to TV and by then they'd given up and I was hooked on TV.

However...recently I've been watching old episodes of the Gilmore Girls. This show is one of the few I missed the start of and have been watching the old episodes and loving them. Watching the daughter is a little like watching myself if people hadn't told me to stop reading and we hadn't moved house so much. So I've begun reading again.

I started with Anita Shreeve of whom I've read a book before, about two years ago, and quite enjoyed. The book before was called Light on Snow which I quite liked.

This new one however a couple of weeks ago was called Sea Glass. 

 

Now both of these were very nice (although I wanted Sea Glass to end differently so the main character would be happy) but it got me started on Isabelle Allende's Daughter of Fortune.

Daughter of Fortune was also quite good (although again I would have liked an extra chapter to tie the stories off more neatly). But this one and Sea Glass have done is get me reading so when I had the chance to borrow another book from my Mum I did.

This last book I've read was called Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (pronounced “Lee Schwin Sing” according to his website). It was wonderful. The book was a mix between a bit of a historical look at China through a child's/teenager's eyes and an auto biography. I made up my mind as soon as I'd finished it that I would never complain about running out of Milk ever again.

I felt such appreciation for what I have grown up with and shock when I read about some of the poverty for my parents generation. What changes those of my grandparents generation must have seen!

Now I am on to another book and am loving this world I am finding of new books, ideas and authors. When I stopped reading I'd read the same authors over and over and over. Now I'm enjoying the fun of discovering the joy of a new author and highly recommend Mao's Last Dancer. It was truly a wonderful book.