Reading Habits – June & July 2010

I’ve never really seen myself as a stubborn person, but as you’re reading another edition of Reading Habits, it seems that I’m actually as stubborn as a mule.  You can probably gather by this statement that I’ve not had a sudden road to Damascus style transformation and started reading again.  I’ve not even been to Damascus.  I should probably just accept that I don’t read any more and that I’ve joined the massed ranks of philistines.

Never! I will never accept this! I’ll carry on saying that I enjoy reading until my dying breath, even if I never read another book.  I certainly hope that I will read another book one day, but at this stage I’m far from convinced.

Anyway, in June I didn’t read any books, even though I only had 40 pages of a comic book to go.  This constitutes the laziest I have ever been in my life and I feel totally ashamed.  I did acquire a book through Bookmooch, though:  The Complete Short Stories by Ian Rankin, which now means I own all of the Rebus stories.  Whether or not I’ll ever read them all is another matter entirely.

July saw me finally get around to reading those 40 remaining pages of Amy Reeder Hadley’s Fool’s Gold Volume 1. As I mentioned in June, I bought this on a complete whim and so I didn’t actually know what it was about.  Perhaps I should have checked.  Fool’s Gold is the story of a high school girl (who is a talented dressmaker) who forms a club to identify all the cocky boys in school (the Fool’s Gold of the title) and to all swear never to date these dicks.

Ahem.  I think it’s safe to say that I’m not exactly the target demographic for this book.  As such, I don’t feel at all able to give any opinion at all without sounding like either a) an old man or b) really creepy.

And that’s all the book news I have from the last two months. I’m pathetic.

Result:  Match abandoned.