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The horror! The horror! My New Year's resolution Posted: 01 Jan 2010 01:51 PM PST When I was packing for my trip to Indiana, I laid out two books that I'd checked out of the library for the journey--the Third Angel by Alice Hoffman and Home by Marilynne Robinson. Bob walked by and saw the books. He exclaimed, "OMG, you're going to read? You never read." Suddenly I was transported back to my previous life, my horseless and TV-less life, when I read 2-3 books a week. I maintain a core collection of about 300 books that I've treasured over the years -- Annie Dillard, Doris Betts, Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates, Irish Murdoch, Russell Banks, the whole lot of them. And now -- horror of horrors -- I've been labelled a non-reader. I love reading, yet there just doesn't seem to be time. I read 2/3 of Third Angel on the plane flight to Pennsylvania, and since then it has been languishing at my bedside. Evenings I care for the horses, do some chores, blog a little, and go to bed. The plot is slipping from my memory as I speak. I did manage to finish Home, but M. Robinson is a particular favorite of mine and read it in a sitting on my sister's couch. How can this be? So that is my New Year's resolution -- find time to read. Make time to read.

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