I wish I could claim this as my own idea, but I didn't make this one up. I did, however, jump on the bandwagon as soon as I heard about it. Like I did parachute pants back in 1984.
I'm going to try to read a book a week in 2013.
Yup, a book a week. That's 52 books, for those of you with weak calendar skills. 52 books. That's a lot. I own a lot of books, and I read a lot of stuff that's not books, but, man... 52 books is a lot of books no matter how you slice it.
Well... how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. So I need to get a list together. I think of necessity I'll need to branch out from my regular reading habits, because, let's face it, even the best Harlequin novels get a little formulaic after 12 or 13 of them.
I figure I'll buy a few books, but I'll probably go to the library for most, there's a branch just down the street. With a playground! It's not creepy for a single guy with no kids to hang out at a library playground, is it? Nah, didn't think so.
But what to get? I think I'll start by re-reading a few that I haven't in a while. Fiction. Like 'The Hobbit.' I have not read that since... my junior year in high school? Something like that. And I'll need to read 'Fahrenheit 451' again too. There's a non-fiction 'Rise of the Greeks' that I haven't read in 20 years. Maybe 'Cosmos' although I don't think I could get through that in a week.
But there has to be new stuff too. Lots of new stuff. New to me, at least. Guess I need to see what's hot on the lists these days.
Suggestions? I'd love to hear what people who are not me are reading these days.
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