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Summer Reading

With school being out, and my return to the workforce, one thing I didn't realize I missed was reading. For fun. Okay, I'll admit, I didn't do a LOT of the required reading for school, but I never really had the time to do recreational reading, with the exception of a few magazines or graphic novels, since I was a full time student. But now I'm working full time, with a one hour lunch to fill, and what better way to fill it with, than by reading a book?

Well, I decided to go back, read some stuff I've read before, to get back in the swing of things. I've restarted Stephen King's Dark Tower, which I'm reading during lunch, and The Stand, which I started to read last summer, got about a quarter of the way in and never finished. I've read The Stand before, at least twice, and it's such a rich story, I enjoy every page.

It's really nice to get back to books - I've blinded myself too much by the technicolor screen of my computer. I'm getting my life back. And it feels good.

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