Reading books ( Archived) (20)

I used to read books.

I used to read 1 book of an average size a week in Russian. The same size in Swedish or English takes 2 weeks. So it was between 26 and 52 books a year, depending on the language.

If you assume life expectancy of 85 years in Sweden for women and the fact that I started to read at four, then it's 81 years of reading and during this time I can read from 2106 to 4212 books.

That's it.

(Then, cancer runs on the female side of the family and 85...)

And I stopped reading books on 24 feb 2022. I know I'm missing something that's not possible to catch up later.

Time is sieving though the fingers and my books are waiting for me. I want to return and pick you up.

They say that relocating takes 5 years from your life. It is indeed true. They never said that a war takes everything from your life. Your past and your presence.

And your books.

What book would beat a view from a copter showing how the said copter is dropping a kind of deadly munition on a human being? And the said deadly munition is exploding over the head of the said human being? And the said human being is stopping to be alive in the real time while you are watching the sad video?

And the sad human being is an occupant who came to other people's land in order to kill them.

And the said (sad) human being is an occupant who came to other people's land in order to kill them and at the very same time he is your country man.

And you are just there waking at night checking news.

What books can prepare you for that?

Thank you!

I also did a lot of reading. I was in the middle of reading a book but when Covid-19 happened I panicked when told I had to stay in the house. I have lived many years and was never told to be afraid of getting sick by touching something or breathing the air that I breathed everyday. I closed the book and haven't picked it up where I left off. Then the war in Ukraine and I was shocked when I saw buildings bombed leaving elderly people with no home, no food, hardly any life left, very small children with dirty faces clinging to anyone who would hold them.

I have a couple shelves full of authors that I like but still can't get back to them. The shootings in the U.S. has extended into other parts of the world and now I'm not only worried but deeply saddened for how little people think of each other.

The book is still on the table gathering dust.

The only support I can offer is hugging. It' virtual. If you want it.

Thank you. Very kind of you. Back at ya

Too many books and not enough lifetime. I used to sit down and read a book in a couple hours or so. Now lucky to have time to read before bed and a book takes a month. Reading is a way to turn off the brain. Think about a plot that you have no influence or chance of changing it. I write too. Even though I am book crazy, at the same time I wonder why. Why do humans write. And why do I care to read their ideas? In the over all scheme of life, what good is reading fiction. Yet humans have a passion for putting thoughts and ideas on paper for others,