Reading
It’s official. I have designated 2010 to be a Year of Much Reading (tm).
What?
Well, I recently realised that not only do I not read much in the way of books any more, where once I would read almost constantly, but also I have over 120 books in my possession which are either half- or un-read. And that’s a lot of wasted tree, not to mention ink.
So, to redress the balance in this unfortunate situation, I shall attempt to read significantly more than I have done of late. To this end, instead of wasting time hitting refresh on Twitter and facebook and wondering why my life feels so incomplete, I shall instead spend a large portion of my free time devouring books voraciously.
The two main goals of the exercise are:
- to reduce the number of half-read books, currently standing at around 20, by 100% to zero
- to read 52 books (or more) before we suffer another year change (that’s around one per week for the mathematically challenged amongst you!)
The first is more important than the second but I’d like to manage both, or come close. If I manage to exceed the second then I’ll be over the moon, to use a cliché.
“But what, prey tell, does this have to do with me?” I hear you cry in exasperated astonishment. I’m glad you asked. Your punishment for allowing my literature consumption to fall into such a parlous state is that you are obliged to read about the books that I read. I shall keep reviews short, of course, and shall probably update on the subject around once a month. But blog about it I will and, thus, read about it you must.
“But you’re already 12 days into the new year! Surely that means you’re already behind?” I hear you cry with touching concern. Ah well, you see, this blog comes on the back of already having managed three whole books thus far and, hence, I am actually ahead. You shall, of course, discover what those books are in due course (unless you read my tweets in which case you may already know).
So for now, I shall bid you a bon voyage, as I continue upon my own journey of literary consumption, and you can expect updates in due course. I can sense the bated breath from here…
