A Reader

Confession: I am a reader. According to Goodreads, I have read 39 books so far this year. That’s pretty good for me. I like to read all types of books, with mystery type books probably leading the way. I’ve begun to read more non-fiction as I’ve grown older, but I’ll need to step that up as I progress through this year.

I was an early reader – with 4 older siblings, I wanted to be as grown up as they were, and pushed myself to learn some of their skills so I could be like them. They were very helpful in teaching me words and figuring out how to sound out words – to get meaning in what was on the page.

That learning led to a love of reading, and I have immersed myself in books ever since. It’s a great learning tool. Many times I’ll toss out a fact when speaking to people, and they seem amazed at how i know certain things. When they ask me how I know something, I usually reply, “Oh, I read it some place.” I can pick these facts up even in the fiction I read: I’ll get an excellent description of a place or task or object, which may lead me to learning more about that subject, and it becomes knowledge. It’s pretty scattershot, so I know a little about a lot, and not a lot about any one subject. I am a dilettante – I’ve always known that.

Music may be my deppest subject (used to be baseball) – and I’ve got a podcast that looks at a lot of different music for today. So let’s listen to
Jacqueline Taieb, the Raspberries, Badfinger, Todd Rundgren, Luscious Jackson, the Bees, Buzzcocks, the Stranglers, the Pretenders, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, the Cash Box Kings, Charles Brown, and Lurrie Bell while reading a good book for the summer.

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