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- 04.24.06
- Page count so far: 2849; Total pages to go: 17,151. I really don't have anything to say here that I haven't said before: I'm either doing really poorly on this goal or I set the bar way too high. That's it.
On the plus side, with my whole moving to the city, I'm likely to ride the train to work everyday and therefore have tons of time to read then. Not enough to turn this goal around, but definitely enough to help.
- 04.19.06
- Page count, this book: 298; Total pages to go: 17,151. I finally finished off one of my bathroom books, The Watcher's Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1. It covered the first two seasons with cast interviews, episode, music and monster guides, and other such pieces of trivia. That's, uh, pretty much it.
- 04.16.06
- Page count, this book: 283; Total pages to go: 17,449. I knocked off When Strange Gods Call in just a week, partly because it was incredibly easy, fluff fiction reading and partly because Brian and I took off to Minneapolis for the weekend and I had plenty of time in the car to tear through it.
It was about a woman from Hawaii confronting an ages-old family feud and a set of outdated ideals that led her to run away. She comes back when her grandmother falls ill and starts to realize how much she misses and how much she still reviles in her life back home. It was entirely mindless emotional girl reading, and stood up to the quality of such--not horrible, not outstanding, and for five bucks, worth reading.
- 04.09.06
- Page count, this book: 258; Total pages to go: 17,732. If I wasn't failing this goal before, this book would have tipped me right over the edge. It took me damn near forever to get through The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, but it was more than worth it to satisfy my need for quality English language-related reading.
After all, this is the point of my goal, yes? To get myself to read things for my own enjoyment. Even if it is ridiculously slow.
- 03.27.06
- Page count so far: 2010; Total pages to go: 17,990. I can safely say I will definitely not achieve this goal, especially with the amount of effort I'm about to pour into the short story goal. I severely underestimated the amount of time involved in reading that amount every night in addition to working on my other goals and just generally living my life. I can't really change the goal now--three-months in--but this goal is surely going to feature a much lower number next year.
At 2010 pages, I'm just over half of where I should be at last page tally. This doesn't take into account the mid-book page counts of my current reads: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (master bathroom), The Watcher's Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (guest bathroom), Burning Chrome (downstairs bathroom) and The Meaning of Everything (at work). So, despite the total lack of ability to meet this goal, I'm really happy I'm finally getting to tear through all of these books that have sat untouched because of all the required college reading. Just more justification, isn't it...
- 03.14.06
- Page count, this book: 388; Total pages to go: 17,990. I adored The Know-It-All beyond the telling of it. This was the account of a magazine editor who undertook the goal of reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from beginning to end. I originally picked it out because it was a three-for-the-price-of-two book deal, and I had already found Lamb and The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, a mildly interesting-looking discussion. But this one caught my eye because a goal like that is something I would definitely decide to meet. (Can you really doubt that based on this entire web site?)
Anyway, the man basically goes through his trials of achieving this by creating a narrative of the entries. As contrived as it sounds through my description, it really was amazingly well-carried-out and entertaining as hell.
- 02.26.06
- Page count, this book: 420; Total pages to go: 18,378. Lit Riffs really wasn't as impressive as I had hoped. I fell in love with two of the stories, but the rest were rather bleh. All in all, it didn't really help illustrate how I should carry out my idea to write a story based around a song, but I guess it did help illustrate how I care not to do it, as well as motivated me put forth a better effort.
Or it will just make me feel not as bad when I fail.
- 02.25.06
- Page count so far: 1202; Total pages to go: 18,798. I'm doing well, compared to my pre-this year free-reading abilities, but it's definitely not up to average for this goal; I'm thinking I may have set myself a bit high, especially considering the other thirty-eight goals I've set. But, I'm not entirely too far off my average, so I still hope to at least make a worthy effort by the end, and I'm far from disappointed with my performance here.
- 02.12.06
- Page count, this book: 464; Total pages to go: 18,798. Lamb was freaking awesome. Sadly, though, Jesus kicks it. Now, I'm not religious by any definition of the term and definitely wouldn't be mistaken for Christian by anyone who knows me, but congratulations to Christopher Moore for making me cry when Jesus died. I actually cared by the end of this book--funny as it was, the characters were amazingly well developed and wonderfully relatable, a comedic work on par with Terry Pratchett [as close to a god as I worship].
- 01.29.06
- Page count, this book: 302; Total pages to go: 19,262. I just wrapped up Simpsons & Philosophy, a rather entertaining book on the television show. It was actually more scholarly than Medieval Myths, as well, so it sated the thinking for a while. Turning now to sheer entertainment with Lamb.
- 01.19.06
- Page count, this book: 286; Total pages to go: 19,564. Knocked out Medieval Myths by Norma Lorre Goodrich, a semi-scholarly work on, well, medieval mythology. Acquired at a random library book sale (still has the "Due back" card in the front... man, I hope it's not just one I forgot to return). It didn't impress me all that much, but that is probably because it paraphrased a body of works that I've already had to read in full during my college stint. The rehash wasn't all that impressive.
- 01.04.06
- Page count, this book: 150; Total pages to go: 19,850. Finished Me by Katharine Hepburn. Only 150 pages of it count for the new year, though, because the majority of it was read before January 1.
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