It’s been a while since I posed anything up here, been going through a reflective phase about what to do next. As always I have lots of bright ideas for content, but lack the ability to get them actualised.
One thing I’ve been considering in my advancing middle age is the fact that I know the titles of lots of classic books (plus a few choice quotes) but I have so far failed to read them in my 48 years of existence on planet Earth. Now I have to spend 16 hours a week on dialysis I think I owe it to my brain to do something useful with that time and halt any decline. I still find myself deprogramming from my time in a cult, so it’s nice to read something other than the authorised texts, hence my first book choice.
I started dialysis with good intentions wanting to create lots of web content and to be fair I’ve managed to produce a good number of articles. Now, after a year of treatment, I’m facing the fatigue and general illness of kidney failure (which does little for brain power) and although dialysis is a great treatment it is not a replacement for a working kidney (fingers crossed I’ll receive a transplant soon), until things change my body and mind are not going to be quite right.
My resolution has been to start reading, so far I’ve purchased a couple of books:
1984 by George Orwell
Which I am currently engrossed in reading and really enjoying.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Apparently the inspiration for George Orwell, next on my list.
Here’s the rest I’ve picked so far (no particular order):
- Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
This should keep me going for a while, any further suggestions gratefully received.
I’ve also invested in a Kindle, as I’m finding page turning with one arm a bit of a faff, so I’ll be commenting on the pros and cons of an e-reader in the near future.
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