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Do You Love To Read?

No Mineral King today – I haven’t been for a couple of weeks because I went to Hume Lake.

I love to read. Do you?

Some of my favorite podcasts are about books and reading: What Should I Read Next, By the Book (the one with all the cussing), Just the Right Book, From the Front Porch. While listening to several podcasts recently, I learned of a PBS thing called The Great American Read. It is a book popularity contest, seeking America’s favorite novel. You can watch the 2 hours of the program about the books, and if you love books and reading, you will enjoy this program. Then you can vote for your favorite novel, which any reader knows is an impossible task. No problem – you get to vote once a day until the contest ends in the fall.

I didn’t vote because it requires a sign-up, either through FaceBook (not happening for this little gray duck) or via email, and I don’t want to put myself on another list. However, you might. Or maybe you want to do what I did after watching the program: read the list and count how many of the books you have read. I have read 36 of the 100, and a few of them are on my To-Be-Read list.

What does this have to do with being an artist in the Central Valley of California?

Nothing.

Will you tell me 2 things? 1. Which ones you would vote for and 2. how many you have read off the list. Inquiring minds need to know. (I am an Enneagram #5 and a Questioner in Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies – you may need to do some reading to understand this stuff.)

Here is today’s painting: Reading Rabbit, AKA “Salt & Light”, an oil painting on board. It isn’t for sale, because I like it too much to sell.

Salt & Light, or Reading Rabbit, oil on board, 11×14″, Not for sale

2 Comments

  1. I’ve only read 13 of the books listed, and I would vote for Pilgrims Progress.

    What book would you vote for? (And I’m with you–no voting if you have to provide personal information. Nope, ain’t gonna happen!)

    • Sharon, thank you for persisting until you found the comment button! My mom read “A Child’s Pilgrim’s Progress” to us when we are kids, so I counted it. But my memories are fuzzy, so I would be voting for The Help, To Kill A Mockingbird, Anne of Green Gables, Gone With The Wind, Pillars of the Earth, The Joy Luck Club, and The Shack. These aren’t my favorites now, but they really grabbed me when I read them, and I read most of them more than one time. Now that I am over the hill, I’ve realized life is too short to be rereading anything (except the Bible and a few other instruction manuals).

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