Reading and Blogging
A friend and I were talking about how our reading habits have suffered in the last year. She got married has a baby, a toddler and a small business they just started to boot. I’m not sure what my excuse is but I am sure it rather lame compared what hers is.
I have only been reading about one book a week for the last few months. I have been keeping a list so I will know what a more long term average is. I write the title, author, number of pages and the date I finished it on down in a small acid free journal I got from a large faceless book broker at a fair price.
She has knocked it up a notch and is attempting to read 200 classic books in a year. Both of us could have easily completed the target goal before “life” happened. But with all the obligations of our daily lives we both find it harder to soar into the large “Have read this year” reading lists we used to keep. Now it is mostly squeaking by. Squeaking by for us, as according to a recent study I read, only 1 out of 3 Americans will ever finish reading a book after they graduate from college. Scary stuff.
Go check out her blog at 200 Books. She plans on updating it daily.