ABOUT

My name is Heather aka NFMGirl aka Cerebral Girl, and this is my blog. About 25 years ago I was totally addicted to books, spending about $100 a month on them. I decided to break my habit and put myself on something of a "book ban".

Sometime later I found myself living back in the South Florida redneck country of my youth, and an emptiness within me. I longed for the joy of reading a good book and getting lost in a story, and I thought to myself, "As long as I watch my spending, who am I really hurting? I mean, if you are going to have an addiction, aren't books a healthier addiction to have?" I got back to reading, and this blog was born in 2009. It was intended to document my journey back to reading. 

Then I went through a bad stretch of time. 2017 brought the eye of Hurricane Irma just past my town. 2018 was my father's death. 2019 was a rollover accident the week before the one-year anniversary and memorial of my father's death. 2020 brought COVID, and then an injury that caused a bone infection that almost caused me to lose my finger and required months of recuperation and physical therapy. In 2021, both my mother and my best friend were diagnosed with cancer. 2022 brought a direct hit from Hurricane Ian which left us living like we were in a third-world country for weeks. And after a nightmarish almost two years as a primary caregiver of my mother while working full-time, she passed away in 2023. Since then, I've been buried under the demands of settling her estate. It's been a hellish time!

In 2018, I was reading one of the best books I've ever read: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. Then I had to get on a plane to rush to my father's hospital bed and spent the next 10 days or so waiting for him to die and trying to bring him any comfort I could in his final days. After that, it became extremely difficult to pick up a book again, and I have been struggling for five years to find joy once again in reading.

Finally...I think I'm getting there again. We're gonna give this another go!

Welcome to Cerebral Girl in a Redneck World! Let's read some books!

-- March 17, 2024


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