I use to adore reading when I was younger.

I owned every Goosebumps and Animorph book that was released at the time and I've read everyone at least once. Also read the entire Harry Potter series and those I had to read for class. Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, The Pearl, The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, among others.

When I moved in with my mother during the first year of high school or so, I kind of stopped reading. My mother and sister are fairly loud people and even while they're being quiet, they still walk around the house endlessly. Very distracting so I stopped reading. Read some of the books I mentioned above for school but outside of that, I read a book for leisure about once or twice a year.

Never picked the habit up again but I'm trying to.

In November, I picked up a book called "Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How it Changed the course of Civilization" by Ian Wilson. Finished it about three days later. I'm no stranger to the the Black Sea deluge theory (and I do believe it is the actual flood in Genesis) so I enjoyed it. The author does go a little to much in to speculation without hard (IE: Archeological) evidence to support his theories on how it changed Civilzation. That part of the book felt more like historical fiction than anything else.

After I finished that, I started reading "American Desert: A novel" by Percival Everett. Theodore Street is a man who thought life was dead and while on his way to commit suicide, dies in a car accident. Only to wake up at his funeral three days later. Dead. In death, Theodore finds value in life. It is a satire and one of the funniest novels I've ever read. I couldn't put it down.

This month, I picked up "Fight Club" which I previous read and enjoyed it just as much as before. I started reading "The Robe" by Douglas but the vocabulary makes it quite difficult for me to follow. I might just stop reading it. Out of 450 pages or so, I'm about 50 in.


I need to find something I can enjoy.