Read on Twitter
This is a weird thing to confess in a tweet, but I have not read a book - that wasn& #39;t a script - since...2016.
I read a TON, but all of it news articles or long-form stories from journalists or writers online.
No particular reason that I have been able to come up, just...stopped.
I read a TON, but all of it news articles or long-form stories from journalists or writers online.
No particular reason that I have been able to come up, just...stopped.
In an endeavor to remedy a litierary dry spell, I gave myself three options that had been bouncing around my head, thanks to Twitter.
(This gave me the out of being able to Tweet about them, so I can open Twitter after every chapter for a & #39;hit& #39; - I know myself too well.)
(This gave me the out of being able to Tweet about them, so I can open Twitter after every chapter for a & #39;hit& #39; - I know myself too well.)
The three books I& #39;m restarting my reading routine with are:
@BCDreyer& #39;s (titular) "Dreyer& #39;s English",
@TaNehisiCoats& #39;s "Between the World and Me",
and the book I& #39;ve been dying, but also incredibly anxious, to read,
@lyzl& #39;s "God Land" - the reason is as follows:
@BCDreyer& #39;s (titular) "Dreyer& #39;s English",
@TaNehisiCoats& #39;s "Between the World and Me",
and the book I& #39;ve been dying, but also incredibly anxious, to read,
@lyzl& #39;s "God Land" - the reason is as follows:
I had a separation from my understanding of & #39;faith& #39; while coming into my sexuality, which I have been particularly hesitant to revisit. I& #39;ve been very happy to keep those feelings shoved into the broom closet of my mind, so others wouldn& #39;t notice - nor would I.
But I enjoy Lyz as a person and especially her writing. It conjures that weird overfamiliar feeling you get when you connect to someone& #39;s digital thoughts but have never, ever shared the same physical space, ha.
Since I heard the conceit, I & #39;knew& #39; God Land would be the first book I read when I eventually broke the funk and allowed myself to pick up a book again.
And, that started this evening. I& #39;ll be tweeting thoughts roughly every chapter or so, feel free to read along and comment!
And, that started this evening. I& #39;ll be tweeting thoughts roughly every chapter or so, feel free to read along and comment!
I had finished the introduction before I started this thread, but already felt compelled to say something, because @lyzl& #39;s "desire to interrogate this idea of & #39;normality,& #39; already made me want to bawl.
I grew up as a completely askew soul wearing the shell of & #39;Midwest Normal& #39;.
I grew up as a completely askew soul wearing the shell of & #39;Midwest Normal& #39;.
It& #39;s basically the thing I asked of God most often - make me more like the people around me. In complete irony, it& #39;s actually how I honed many of my acting abilities - it& #39;s much easier to pretend to be someone else and shove my own thoughts and instincts into a pile of "not now".
Onto Chapter One, so I can actually clock some reading milage, ha. The desire to tear up has subsided with my tweeting.
