Readings

I wanted to post about this in ages. It's just that I got busy, went through different phases where I did not have the patience to read as sometimes I feel I need a calm period to really get around a book. So if I was reading, I would get bored of the book and then start another and then another, and I would be left with unfinished books, which I hate cause then they feel like homework. I get excited about finding a book and then getting it on my nook and have that feeling that I have it there to read, it's waiting for me, but when it really comes down to reading it on a daily basis I get discouraged.
I still love my nook, my precious nook.

Finished
I had finished a few months ago Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. It was fine, but a bit depressing and long and boring at times.
Also a few months ago finished, but enjoyed more than The Bell Jar was The pornographer by John McGahern. I don't know how I stumbled upon this book, but I did and it was engaging. It's about a writer who writes erotica and he meets this woman and gets her pregnant and then wants to get rid of her. At the same time his visits his grandmother in the hospital, where he meets another girl, and so on...It's good.
Just Ride, A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike by Grant Persen is exactly what it seems, just a nonfictional guide about bikes and riding them.
Finished ages ago, Fear of Flying by Erica Jong, was engaging, sad sometimes, funny most of the times.
Delta of Venus, erotic writings by Anais Nin. Some stories were short and interesting, others creepy, long, boring, so many names appear from nowhere. I would not reread this, nor recommend it.
Finished Ignore Everybody, And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod which was also interesting and maybe fun.

Started/ currently reading/ hoping to finish
I've started Alain de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of work, which at first was a bit boring and too formal, but then it got OK. I still have to finish it, but I'm not loving it.
Prime of Life, Simone de Beauvoir did not finish, but it is interesting and will.
The Gift, Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde is difficult at the beginning, most of part I as he talks about gifts and gift exchange and gratitude, so I'm looking forward to the second part. It's interesting, for sure.
The beginning of Autobiography by Morrissey is a tad boring, but we'll see.