Current TBR

My TBR list (To Be Read) is over 100 books long at this point. But that is A-okay. I like having something to look forward to! It is also a great list to send people for Christmas ideas.

Both my brothers went, "What do you even want for Christmas?" I sent them each three titles off my TBR. Easy solution, win-win. I sent one to my mom, too. But hers was a little more diverse. I asked her for some new stationary. I like sending letters to people. It's so fun. I've also taken to writing in a journal and it's getting down to the last pages, that could also be a Christmas ask.

To be Honest, I have not read as much as I'd like to have this semester. I am taking 18 credit hours (all English!) and, honestly, I get enough reading in those classes to put me off my own personal reading. I have fun reading what is assigned to me, and the blogs are fun (it's like peeking into a little window and seeing your personality), but I don't really want to read any more than that. My eyeballs are so tired after I read all the stuff Dr. Carnes assigns. I just can't with him sometimes, I have to take an actual break after I do his assignments.

I feel challenged this semester; in a way I haven't before. This is my first semester as an English major. I just switched from International Business to English. A big jump, but not as big as my dad's eyes when I told him what I was doing. It has been interesting listening to opinions on what I am doing with my education, something I didn't have to deal with before I switched out of Business. But seriously, who would rather fill out accounting tables and learn entrepreneurial jargon and business laws when you could be reading? I have read so many new things this semester, I feel like I have grown already, even only having made if halfway and a bit through my first semester. I feel exhilarated! Exhausted but happy!

My TBR might not be lessening (actually it's mostly growing as people reference texts and I go "ooh!" and add it), but I am satisfied that I am being challenged. And with all this research I have been doing, on the neurological influence of reading, I can quite confidently say that my brain couldn't possibly be getting mushy. It's a good feeling. Even if I am completely washed out today, I am striving for something great ahead of me, and that is enough.