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Looking
at a stack of papers and magazines (just from this week) I have come to
the conclusion that just as I am 'downsizing' my life, and 'things', I
will also have to cut back in that area. I just finished reading the
Sunday Sun-Sentinel and am going to 'attack' the magazines including 2
issues of th New Yorker. As it comes time to resubscribe I plan not to
on many of those listed below.
I read:
Weekly magazines; Time,
EW, New York, Basics, Hot Spots, Real Simple, TV Guide, The New Yorker,
Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reprter, The New York Times Book
Magazine
Weekly newspapers: New Times, City Links, Indepedant, TWN, The Observer, Variety, South Florida Gay News
Daily papers: Sun-Sentinel (and on the Internet), The New York Times, Daily News, NY Post
Monthly
magazines; Taste Of The South, Now Playing, Theatre Arts, Wired,
Mother Jones, GQ, Health News, ConsumerReports On Health
In
addition I use to read a minimum of 4-5 books a month but have cut back
on that, not to forget writng my next book and rereading and editing
it.
I'm going to assume reading blogs fit in there somewhere not
to mention the 8 web sites (Talkinbroadway, Conures & more,
Broadwayshowbiz, GayWriters, gaythinkers2, and Bravenet plus) to read
(and respond to) posts everyday, though I am definitely cutting way back
on those.
And what do YOU read?
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SOME QUOTES ABOUT READING
constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable
exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensation alism,
hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A
newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue.
That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation
depends on.
someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife.
Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
David Byrne
“When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” — Philip Pullman
“If
one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s
chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” — Sherman Alexie
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helpl essly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates
“You
should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter!
Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior,
or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate
on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say,
“I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the
truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too,
stupid.” — John Waters
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
“What
a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper
unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort
and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we
are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they
show us how to live and die.” — Anne Lamott
“I am simply a
‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that
liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” — L.M. Montgomery
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” — Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)
“I
think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If
the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what
are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good
Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of
books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had
to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us
deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like
being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book
must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” –
Franz Kafka
I dislike. My favorites are Veranda and House Beautiful and I read a book
a day on average, usually an English novel. I get my news from TV.