Reading

Posted on January 2nd, 2007 by GregPC.
Categories: Reading.

Reading is one of my favorite activities.  Eighteen years ago, on my honeymoon, I set for myself the arbitrary goal of reading 10,000 pages that year.  I kept careful track of everything I read but came up way short that first year.  Even though I know it is silly, I can’t stop myself from keeping track of how much I’ve read in a given year.  The good thing is that I can sit back and review, in chronological order, every book I’ve read since 1989.

I started by keeping a simple notebook but have tried to apply technology to my mania.  Frankly, the paper and pen still works best for me.  Because I realize that taking a quantitative view of reading is crazy, I’ve started to think of taking a more qualitative approach as well.  So I’m going to start to write something about everything I read this year.  Who knows, if it catches on with me I might not be able to stop myself. . .

At the moment, I am about three quarters of the way through Starship Troopers, but I’m not really enjoying it so much.  I’ll reserve judgment until I am done.  I decided to read it after seeing Joe Haldeman speak at the MIT Communications Forum.  It’s been a while since I read any science fiction and I went and bought myself three just after Christmas - Starship Troopers, The Forever War and Ender’s Game.   My queue is  pretty long this year so  I’m looking forward to getting through this first one.

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