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Jan. 1st, 2010 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionSo depending on how you define a book I read between 55 and 65. Almost all of them in the last four or five months, after becoming alarmed at reading so little in recent years. Definitely aided by always being up waiting for something. Aided also by most of those being short, usually one to two hundred pages. I think only two books broke 400. They all add up to two, maybe two and a half Proust sets.
Should I try to break this record? Reach 66, 75, 100? It sounds idiotic but you have to understand all this reading made me very happy, and mostly kept me away from tv shows and internet news, which quickly & reliably reduce me to hostile imbecility. Or maybe I should vow to read only ten books in 2010 (and eleven in 2011 etc?), pushing me back to long ones, since otherwise I don't get to read. Or maybe read only ten authors, or five, or three, or Proust two and a half times.
Resolutions never work, but they work slightly less never if they're practical, specific, quantifiable, announced aloud in advance to other people as well as written to oneself, and given a definite timeframe. Also helps if it's something you've managed to do before under similar circumstances. Thinking about this.
Should I try to break this record? Reach 66, 75, 100? It sounds idiotic but you have to understand all this reading made me very happy, and mostly kept me away from tv shows and internet news, which quickly & reliably reduce me to hostile imbecility. Or maybe I should vow to read only ten books in 2010 (and eleven in 2011 etc?), pushing me back to long ones, since otherwise I don't get to read. Or maybe read only ten authors, or five, or three, or Proust two and a half times.
Resolutions never work, but they work slightly less never if they're practical, specific, quantifiable, announced aloud in advance to other people as well as written to oneself, and given a definite timeframe. Also helps if it's something you've managed to do before under similar circumstances. Thinking about this.
