Reading

I haven't been reading much lately. I blame school. I blame a lot of things on school, including this past too stressful Christmas. I can get away with it for the rest of the year, but by summer I need to come up with a better excuse for my apathy.
I did manage to finish a book of short stories recently. I had started reading it over the summer. I really enjoyed it, I just never got around to reading it. I don't pay attention to titles and authors. It's the same way with music, I never bother to figure out who the song is by. After I read the last story (except it wasn't really a short story, it was non-fiction) I wanted to find out a little more about the author so I looked for some information on her in the back of the book. While there, I noticed a story by Sedaris and one by Thom Jones. The Sedaris essay was one that I had already read in another book, and while reading it for the second time I thought to myself, "hm, this sounds like that Sedaris essay, but not as funny" I am such an idiot. TJ's was very good as well. I always like his voice.
I recently picked up a book on grammar and another book of short stories by Dave Eggers. I only bought it because I liked the title, "How we are hungry". I like it so far and I'm trying to read slow and enjoy it instead of barreling through like I usually do. The grammar book tries to use humor so hopefully I can use it in school.
Maybe I need to start a reading log like I make my students do. 20 minutes a day. No matter what.