A little bit non-fictiony

I've noticed, recently, that I'm in one of my non-fiction-y moods.

I can tell when I'm in a non-fiction moods the third or fourth time someone suggests a movie/tv series/novel that I'd normally be at least mildly curious about, and the voice in my head says, "meh." (Sometimes, the voice in my head says that out loud, and I feel very bad about it)

That's not to say I don't still enjoy a handful of established favorites - but I'm just as happy to have a gap between Doctor Who and Torchwood as to be watching it, and the news about the 2012/2013 DW season isn't terribly upsetting. I'm sure I'll be in a fiction mood again by then. Probably.

It's just that I don't have much bandwidth these days... any fiction which requires commitment, like whole novels, or a tv series that I'm more than an episode behind on, or a movie - especially one at a theater, where its too dark to knit or draw and I have to *sit still* - is more of a stress than a relaxation.

I recall an interview with John deLancie in the early 90s, who said he couldn't really watch tv and turn off the professional actor, and to relax he listened to music, except that didn't always work because his father was a conductor and oboist, so most of the times he read. I can kind of relate, now.

It's alright though. It's not as if I'm at a loss for reading or viewing material. I just turn on a documentary, or a Ted Talk lecture, instead of a movie. I pick up "Physics of the Impossible" over any of the five novels I started in 2010 and still haven't finished. And I've read "Comics and Sequential Art" from cover to cover (and have "Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative" next in the queue).

(And, hey, Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, and Top Gear are totally not fiction!)