Finally I found the motivation to start reading again! In the past months, I have been buying books, and getting books from the library, only to leave them there, or start reading the first chapter and stop reading! I don’t know what got into me - I used to really enjoy reading and there were times when I even stayed up at night to finish reading a book! Since summer, however, I was going through this phase where I didn’t have much motivation to read. Since last week, I decided that I really needed to make an effort, and start reading again, even if only a few pages a day.
So I started (again..since I had only read a couple of pages months ago) reading a very interesting book - Watching the English, written by Kate Fox. Here’s a description:
In Watching The English anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironicgnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more…Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.
I am still half way through the book, but until now it has proved to be a very interesting book, ideal as light reading..nothing complicated..but can be funny at times, and informative at the same time 
Did you enjoy Reading..again..at last!? Subscribe to RSS Feed.
Have you ever been to Malta? All you need to know is a click away! Malta Travel Guide, Bargain Accommodation in Malta, Malta Hotels
I love to read. In fact, I’m in the process of writing a book blog. I’ll let you know when it’s up and running.
Wow that’s great! Good Luck in your new venture..it’s really interesting! Looking forward to reading your new blog..please let us know when it is online
“In the past months, I have been buying books, and getting books from the library, only to leave them there, or start reading the first chapter and stop reading”
I soooo understand
Uhhh! Watching the English! I have been meaning to get my hands on that book ever since I moved to the UK, but it always seems to slip my mind…Thanks for reminding me about it and for giving me its name!
Worth reading
I really enjoyed it! 