So without internet one would imagine that there's loads of free time for exciting things one never has the time for as every spare minute is spent online browsing the depths (well, shallows) of social media or watching films you've already seen on Netflix. Wrong. Instead of reading all the books I've bee saving till later (NW, Zoli, Life After Life, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle...) I've watched a lot of TV, even more DVD's, worked overtime and done who knows what with all this precious extra time on my hands.
Well, my time hasn't been completely wasted. I have spent a few afternoons in the sun as the weather has treated us to a heat wave which is pretty much unheard of in these parts of the world especially this time of the year. So that to me is time well spent. Now, while laying in the sun I've managed to, I don't want to say struggled, but worked through a couple of hundred pages of Freddie Mercury's biography I bought for a pittance a few months back. The book isn't bad, it's quite ok, but it just isn't gripping enough for me to want to gallop it in one go. So I keep returning to it hoping one day I'll finish it and can finally move on to something more interesting.
I'm still looking for a summer project but I guess this spring and early summer so far has been about biographies and musicians, and, incidentally musicians biographies. I've finished Steve Jobs' (now there's a captivating book) biography and Pete Townshend's and Diane Keaton's autobiographies (ok, I realize Keaton & Jobs aren't musicians...) and am almost through with Freddie, so we'll see where I go from here.
Probably the next book I read will be The Great Gatsby, which I (dare I say this) have never read. I got the book as a birthday present form a dear friend probably a year ago and I totally forgot about it. I only found it today as I started to update the blog and was looking at the books looking for The Next Book. Now, was it stupid to go see the film before reading the book? I think not. This way I was actually able to enjoy the film without any preconceptions. And hopefully can still appreciate the greatness of the book without Leonardo di Caprio spoiling the image of Gatsby. We'll see. The sun is shining, summer's just arrived and the world seems full of possibilities and books. And oh, the main bookstore has 20% off all paperbacks!
