Comments on OCTAMOM ©: It's a Classic

Ugh, I wish I had the ambition to read like that! ...

2009-10-25T22:45:47.086-05:00

Ugh, I wish I had the ambition to read like that! Lately all I read are cookbooks, magazines (scouting out coupons), sales ads, and blogs (some for sales and store deals, etc., some for entertainment -- your kiddos keep me entertained!). I am thinking of asking for an ipod or something like that for Christmas (I know...I'm archaic...don't have one yet). Do you know of any good sites to download free audio books? I find that I don't mind listening to a book or sermon if my hands can keep busy. I listened to a Voddy Bauchum (sp?) sermon last week while cleaning and it was wonderful (baby was sleeping and the other kiddos were watching a short video)! Multitasking at it's finest! Any suggestions?

Thanks for your inspiration!!

Hugs!!

I agree with Suburban C. I think a big part of inc...

2009-10-23T10:28:53.545-05:00

I agree with Suburban C. I think a big part of increased enjoyment comes with wider experience and a deeper maturity level. I get so much more out of books than I did as a harried and grubby college student!

Sorry for late comment--my VPN had you tagged as a p*rn site! I told them you don't even post diaper pics, so they let me back on ;)

I have re read a lot of Jane Austen over the years...

2009-10-23T08:33:13.775-05:00

I have re read a lot of Jane Austen over the years...I will have to check some of these others out...I've forgotten...

You know that this book worm and lover of classics...

2009-10-22T15:44:20.109-05:00

You know that this book worm and lover of classics ate up every word you just wrote. It does make a difference to read literature at your own pace and enjoy passages that strike you........have you read Violette?

Now that I read for pleasure, I find there is a ca...

2009-10-22T13:16:50.804-05:00

Now that I read for pleasure, I find there is a cadence to a good book. How do you explain cadence to a high school student? It just is.

My favorite book to read DURING school was Jane Eyre, as I was reading it in a hostel on the English moors. It spoke to me.

As an underachiever in the birthing category (only 4 children), I became much more connected the author who, like me, suffered from hyperemisis. This I discovered years after I fell in love with the book.

The connection ends with me getting a pic line to stay hydrated and her dying of dehydration.

I love medicine.

I wonder though, although I certainly get a lot mo...

2009-10-22T11:17:02.610-05:00

I wonder though, although I certainly get a lot more out of the books I've reread, is that due to my increased age and experience or because I can read the books more slowly? Because some of the books are rather dull, even though they are also brilliant. And I think the deadline would help me finish them again. Or maybe I'm just feeling that way because I've been rereading Dostoevsky and Tolstoy ...

I do like the classics though. I hope that I can teach my children to love them too. Some of these writers were brilliant in writing and in thinking (or maybe the two are very much the same).

There's a difference between wanting to read and h...

2009-10-22T11:00:19.316-05:00

There's a difference between wanting to read and having to read. You gain so much more when you want to read. Your heart and head are in it. When you have to read....all you're thinking about is twenty other things you'd like to be doing besides reading. I remember it well.

It's not just the fact that you are reading them f...

2009-10-22T09:54:25.041-05:00

It's not just the fact that you are reading them for pleasure (as opposed to for class). It's the fact that you are older and more mature.

Classics are wasted on the young.