Good reads is a brilliant application on Facebook where you can share your readings with others. I keep track of my reading there as often as I can. As I have no doubt blogged about previously one of the books I am reading is The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin and one of my favorite ideas that I have taken away from it is to "be gretchen" as she puts it. Too often in life we do things that don't make us happy because they interest others and we think they should also interest us. I love books... all books... and I don't mind people thinking of me as bookish especially as I am sure to relate to Rachel coven's new female lead. She states: "I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler."Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. One thing I did mind until I read the happiness project was my tendancy to lean towards children's literature. It always made me feel like a silly little girl. I love fairy tales and as a college student I was expected to read literature all of the time and put away my childish endeavors so I read the great BFG with my son and smiled quietly to myself. However, from now on I plan to "Be Kari" and let my love of children's literature continue to capture my imagination for years to come...
As Gretchen quotes this was even the view of C.S. Lewis who said "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I become a man I put away childish things, including the fare of childishness and the desire to be very grown up".
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