Addicted to Sound

I think worse than eating the fundraiser cookie dough straight out of the cartoon is my addiction to noise.

Radio in the morning (weather, basic news, music to help me track time in the shower). Radio in the car (love love love NPR). Talking people at work. There's rarely five minutes where someone doesn't walk by and say hello. But even if there were a gap between visitors, I talk to myself enough to fill in the silent space. That's probably not a good thing. At home the ipod is play or the TV is blinking. And then I get in bed at night and wonder why my brain is buzzing.

Noise addiction is not a good thing. My to-read stack is taller than it has been for 18 months. At that time I had eight weeks of summer to read my way through it! I've become a big fan of my job and have started checking out more books from the library. An awesome thing, but they're piling up! And the bookstore. Oh the bookstore that I love. I have willpower, but not in great quantity.

I think I need to take back the quiet moments and find some hours to crash on the couch with a book instead of Project Runway (which ends soon--so see? An extra hour!).

If you need a book recommendation, I have many. I've read some truly fabulous books this fall, which is why I'm so bummed about my stack. So far I have a great reading record and I can't wait to see what else I picked out!

Here are some of the great ones I've read this fall. Most of them fall in the teen category, but a few are great for adults as well. Impossible by Nancy Werlin: amazing and a fairly fast read. Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins are masterpieces and jaw-dropping books. Fire, and prequel Graceling, by Kristin Cashore are wonderful adventures if you like fantasy. Okay, all of these are fantasy, but Fire and Graceling are in kingdoms.

Less TV, less wasted noise. More books!