davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

At first glance I thought she was trying to wear those shells as flippers 

  I had not noticed that! It does look like seashell swim fins!

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4 January - A Doll A Day 2023:

4 January – Brought, Bought, and Borrowed Books

Brought, bought, and borrowed: too many books, and not enough time to read them.

I have lost track of how long it has been since I read a book, an actual book, from cover to cover, yet somehow the books keep accumulating. Some of these I brought with me on my winter getaway, some I have purchased since arriving, and some I have borrowed from the local library, yet here they sit, in a precarious pile, while I spend my "reading time" online.

I still read, quite a lot actually, but I read piecemeal, here and there, bits of that and fragments of this, on a screen rather than as a cohesive whole between hardboard covers on printed pages.

I often allow myself to become distracted before beginning a book by looking up information about the book. I can tell you quite a lot about writer E.B. White, for example, even though I have yet to read the E.B. White book of essays that has been wedged in this pile for over two years.

Is reading books inherently better than reading online? I don't know.

Should I make a conscientious effort to spend less time online and instead read a book? Again, I don't know.

But here's a picture of a doll with a pile of books, which makes a more interesting picture than would a doll with a computer screen.

Maybe if Triv would pull her eyeglasses down over her eyes rather than wearing them on her forehead as a fashion statement, she could see well enough to read a book.