I finally recaptured my reading cojones after pregnancy and childbirth stole them from me.
You see, I had all these grand delusions of ploughing through scores and scores of books I’d always wanted to read while I was breastfeeding, figuring I’d be feeding 8 or so times a day at a stretch of maybe 30 minutes each.
Four hours a day of reading? What bliss I thought.
The reality was actually quite different.
Breastfeeding had a wholly soporific effect on me and my partner will vouch that I often looked like a junkie on the nod. A result, I understand, of the release of that lovely hormone oxytocin. I say “lovely” because it had a number of wonderful side effects I wreaked the full benefit of when I wasn’t near my daughter, but in the course of feeding her I couldn’t do or understand anything that didn’t directly relate to her wellbeing, such was the effectiveness of that hormone’s influence.
What cuts even more is that those feeding sessions were much more frequent and longer than I had anticipated. Doh!
The upside obviously is that it allowed me to create an incredibly strong and close bond with my daughter. Those thousands of hours holding her, looking into her eyes, singing her lullabies and working together to bring her nourishment is an experience I would never trade.
But damn, did those books collect dust!
And finally, 2.5 years after I stopped breastfeeding the hormones have finally decided that I can now read again. I always could, but the mind was just never in it.
YAY!
Which brings me to my very first “Breview” – a collection of which will be kept on “AK’s Breview” page above.
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The Road – Cormac McCarthy
A thoroughly modern novel. Emotionally gruelling in every sense, this book is still with me a week after I finished it. How would you prepare your child for the inevitability of your loss, in a world that has ended, as we know it? Sparse, yet utterly evocative prose.
A masterpiece.
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Glad you reading again
That sounds like the kind of book i would like.. i may have to check that one out..
Hi Being Brazen: Me too!
Slyde: Check it out, dude. But don’t expect rainbows and inspiration or look forward to the joy of reading it a second time…
Does it have a lot of pictures?
I once owned 7,000 books, Talk about dust and hell when moving.
DrZibbs: Yep. Post apocalyptic boobs galore.
Alan: Hi! 7,000? Are you Bill Gates? Where do you possibly get the time to read them? Or space to store them?
i’ve heard good things about this book, look forward to checking it out …