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Writer's picture: Justin H. BriggsJustin H. Briggs

While this is important to me, what it means to you is that I have not written in some time. This is my first post in months and it is not artistic; it is therapeutic. I have to vent.


I once read early and often. Somewhere soon along the way I began reading a title a day. Twain, Hemingway, Steinbeck; the voices of American literature for a young man at the end of the 20th century.


See what happened was I lost it. Gone fled the ability to read several hundred pages per day. I blamed it on many things. There were a few indicators as to why it was what it was.


You can read all about it, of course, if you fancy a few hundred pages of insanity, or any of my other titles. There were reasons beyond my immediate diagnosis as well, such as lifestyle issues of both work and play, both of which I now do little. Minimal distractions.


I know so many people such as myself who agonize over the loss of reading for pleasure. I struggled slowly when I lost the ability to focus on a book, but when it was gone I rarely thought it would return, no matter the effort to restore my literacy to its former capability.


This is not meant to perturb or disturb but I can read again. Of course I could always read to get through a task or project but I am, for the first time in two decades, reading a book or more a week for fun. Remember the word fun? I write this not as a writer but as a reader.


With the end of summer I began reading again. Clarity returned in force and I grabbed on like a life preserver. Gone was the haze after consuming a sentence, paragraph, page, chapter.


You will see some of the fun fall titles below; mostly rereads, some new to me, and a couple of which I have been attempting to digest for over a decade. The whole experience is refreshing, rewarding, and inspiring.



If any of the titles above strike your fancy, and you wish to discuss, please reply in the comments of send me an email!

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