November pleasure reading

My book of November was The Magician's Nephew, the first book in the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. I decided to start this series because I saw one of the movies was being aired on ABC Family or something a few weeks ago and I realized I'd never read them all. I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when I was in elementary school but I literally remember nothing about it other than the fact that I read it (so that's the book I'm currently reading).



This book was really easy to read since the whole series is geared towards younger kids, but it was still something simple to occupy my limited free time. I think it's just meant to introduce the rest of the series really, and how this land of Narnia came into existence. In that regard the book is just sort of filler that's not really necessary to know when reading the other books (I mean, obviously it's not important if they didn't even bother making it into a movie :-P) I guess I just read it for completeness. But still, it was a nice little story even though I'll never read it again.

I want to check out Duke's library for more adult and current books, so I'll probably do that once the undergrads have left and my exam is over. I think the reason I gravitate towards autobiographies and books for teens is that I don't have to concentrate when I read them and that's something I like. I don't always feel like reading things that I have to concentrate on really intensely to understand when I've spent all day reading papers, doing experiments, working on my TA duties, and going to class. But in the spring, when I don't have classes for the first time in 19 years, maybe I'll feel more like reading grown-up books :-P