Week 11/20 through 11/27/2011
Thursday (11/25) (11:50 – 12:30pm) Still Life with Woodpecker
Sunday (11/27) (11:40 – 2:15pm) Still Life with Woodpecker
Total minutes=195
An easy continuance of reading Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins: The family went on a road trip for Thanksgiving. For the first time in my fourteen years of marriage, I let my wife drive. It’s not so much an issue of being a stereotypical male (if one exists), as it is a matter of anxiety. I simply do not enjoy being a passenger and out of control of something moving so fast. In fact, it doesn’t have to be something moving fast. I am extremely uncomfortable riding horses – They have a brain and I can’t predict what it’s thinking, or might do.
So, off on the road trip, I intended to read for coursework only (at least on the destination trip). I had a book critique and needed to finish John Dewey’s School and Society. After finishing this halfway through the trip I decided to log some pleasure reading minutes. This was a difficult decision considering I needed to read two chapters in the text for my Action Research class, but with less than an hour I figured it wouldn’t hurt.
On the return trip, I knew I had to read for my Action Research class, but I couldn’t put myself up to it. I was actually enjoying not having to drive. This is one of those drives that a person does so regularly that two and a half hours might as well be eight, it seems like it anyway. So, I went back to my pleasure reading. This is book is so hilarious it’s hard to break it up into disconnected sessions, like watching a movie ten minutes at a time. The thing that I find interesting is its unpredictability. I simply cannot forecast what might occur, the plot is outright absurd-and I love it. Sure, the author is crude, but let my engagement speak for itself. I feel like I’m reading at novel pace (faster than a Kerouac novel and almost half way through the book in only a handful of sessions). Perhaps I need more pop fiction in my life…
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