It has been six days since returning from our mini vacation to our hometown NYC. I've spent the week trying my best to read BlindSight and mourning the loss of a great entertainer Robin Williams. I grew up watching him on Happy Days and have been a huge fan since then. Finding out that he committed suicide made me really sad as I understand the darkness and pain associated with depression. I've suffered from depression and anxiety since I was a teenager without recognizing that it was depression until about 8 years ago. I could not bring myself to read. Let alone a book that I had no clue to what the hell was happening. So much so that I had to stop reading it. I was not pleased that I had to revise my challenge, then not enjoying my first selection, along with everything that was going on, I almost quit my August challenge. Then I realized that I was just in a funk and I can get myself out of it. I've enjoyed challenging myself each month and this month was not going to be an exception. Bad enough that I had to revise it, I was not going to quit. What I did quit was reading BlindSight. I just could not get into that fucking book. I decided to move on to my next selection which is Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Now this is a book that I'm digging. It's readable, to which my friend pointed out was because it was Young Adult. Makes me no difference, all I know is that I'm happy to finally get my reading groove back on. I thought I lost it while trying to read BlindSight. My friend an avid reader reminded it's okay to not finish a book just move on. Which I'm very glad I've done. I have two weeks to the end of the month and I need to binge read to meet my challenge. Besides my birthday next week, I do not have any immediate plans and am confident I can read three books in that time. Now off I go to try to read some more before the sandman visits.
Congrats on pushing through and not quitting this challenge. I am glad the 2nd book was a better read and kept your momentum going.
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