I feel caught out by this article, but in a good way! 😊 My usual reading time is in bed just before sleep, so I tend to read a LOT of good but not very challenging SFF books--because I want to sleep after reading, not get myself worked up! But I should set aside some time during the day to read more nonfiction books. I have an Amazon list of them as long as my arm that I keep not getting to. Braiding Sweetgrass is definitely on there! Here are a few of mine:
Currently reading: Chokepoint Capitalism, by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Oh wow I am looking over them all....so many...and I want to start reading them now.... 📖 🥰
A couple of those titles are on my TBR list as well, Elnora!
Like you, I don't want to do a lot of thinking before sleep. It's hard enough to shut my monkey-brain off as it is! So I save that hour or two before bed for fiction, but make time for the more consideration heavy content earlier in the day. Either over supper or just after.
Balance in all things. Well, maybe not in social media...LOL
Hear you about the monkey brain. But hmmmm, you have made me think about how I don't love jumping out of bed in the morning, I like to take a half hour to wake up. I usually just read email or social media, but that could be prime nonfiction reading time...priming that monkey brain to get thinking and get me psyched to write for the day!
I feel caught out by this article, but in a good way! 😊 My usual reading time is in bed just before sleep, so I tend to read a LOT of good but not very challenging SFF books--because I want to sleep after reading, not get myself worked up! But I should set aside some time during the day to read more nonfiction books. I have an Amazon list of them as long as my arm that I keep not getting to. Braiding Sweetgrass is definitely on there! Here are a few of mine:
Currently reading: Chokepoint Capitalism, by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Oh wow I am looking over them all....so many...and I want to start reading them now.... 📖 🥰
A couple of those titles are on my TBR list as well, Elnora!
Like you, I don't want to do a lot of thinking before sleep. It's hard enough to shut my monkey-brain off as it is! So I save that hour or two before bed for fiction, but make time for the more consideration heavy content earlier in the day. Either over supper or just after.
Balance in all things. Well, maybe not in social media...LOL
Thanks for reading and commenting!
Teehee!! There is no balance in social media!!
Hear you about the monkey brain. But hmmmm, you have made me think about how I don't love jumping out of bed in the morning, I like to take a half hour to wake up. I usually just read email or social media, but that could be prime nonfiction reading time...priming that monkey brain to get thinking and get me psyched to write for the day!
Great idea!