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Friday, January 11, 2008
A Year of Reading
This year, I made the decision that I was going to keep track of how many books I read, both those that I have read before and those that I haven’t. I want to see what my reading habits really are. I love reading, but I have noticed my own propensity to go through cycles. Right now, I appear to have fallen into a slump. I’ve been attempting to get through the (massive) volume of Judy Garland: The Secret Life of an American Legend since just after the new year. I finished five books in December, and then promptly didn’t read for several days toward the end, and I have a feeling that the sheer size of the volume I selected was what did it. As of right now, I’m over 100 pages in and past The Wizard of Oz release in her life – making her eighteen or thereabouts – but I’ve got plenty to go. I want to finish this book. After all, I’m actually really interested in Judy Garland. She’s fascinating. Not to mention, I have a stack of other books just waiting to be read for the first time.
Among things that are hibernating on the shelf right now are:
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (I’m unsure about this one)
Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
Mary Poppins Comes Back by PL Travers
Rococo by Adriana Trigiani
Making Avonlea by Irene Gammel
Not to mention at least ten LM Montgomery books that I haven’t read yet, but are sitting on the shelf just begging to be pored through. I figure, by the end of this year, if I haven’t finished all of the books on my shelf which currently remain unread or at least try to do so, then I’m not giving it my best shot and I need to stop buying more books. (Well, until we get a new bookshelf, I need to do that anyhow.)
I’m hoping this can be The Year of the Book, but given the events that loom ever closer, not to mention my desperate need for employment, I don’t know how much reading I’m actually going to get done.
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