I am obsessed with reading. It is my absolute favourite thing to do. The only problem I have with this obsession with books is that I always feel like I am in a rush. As soon as I start to read a book I start to think about what book I might read next. It’s as though I am in a race with myself to read as many books as possible but in the race sometimes I forget to enjoy the book. So sometimes I can’t decide if I didn’t enjoy the book I am reading or if I just did not concentrate on it enough and this has happened with the book I finished yesterday.
I think I have mentioned before that I read a book before bed on my kindle and another during the day on Audible. The book I finished yesterday was on Audible and it was the Booker Prize Winner 2024 Orbital by Samantha Harvey. I obviously wanted to love it but I just didn’t. It was only a 5 hour listen which is pretty short compared to lots of others I have read but it still could not hold my interest. Don’t get me wrong the descriptions of earth from space are pretty amazing and I feel like now I could probably go to space as a trained astronaut because she gives so much insight into what it is actually like to travel into space but I couldn’t find the story. It jumped from random information about the astronauts lives to beautiful descriptions of the views of earth from high above, to explaining the feeling of floating in a no gravity space station but never actually grabbed me and told me a story. I am left feeling like Samantha Harvey is really intelligent and I am not because I just didn’t get it.
I am also listening to The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod slowly, a chapter or two a week with The Shelf Help Book Club and Songs Of Love And War by Santa Montefiore on my Kindle. This is the first book I have read by Santa Montefiore and so far I am enjoying her storytelling, this one is the first in a series so I may possibly read them all if I do enjoy this. It is based in Ireland in a castle and is the beginning part of a chronicle of the Deverill family so I assume follows Kitty, Bridie and Jack as they grow up.
Have a lovely Saturday and see you tomorrow.
NJ x
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