Slow Reading

These strange past few months, I've embraced a slower reading pace than in the past several years. Instead of  just blasting through fast-paced sci fi, YA fantasy, or contemporaries, I've added a group of slower reads that I now have the time, perhaps need, to process. This does mean that I'm again reading multiple books at the same time--which I have the bandwidth for again, like I did back when I was in school. Sometimes, I need to read about mindfulness before bed, practice a meditation, and journal my thoughts about it. Other times, I want to be reminded of what's happening in the world and what I can do about it as a writer, in a constructive way. Other times, I need to think about this world and my place in it, or experience what it was like for some nineteenth century women.

Here are my current, ongoing, "slow reads," some of which I've been reading for months. Let me know what you think!

1. Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
2. Middlemarch by George Eliot
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
4. Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders