Read a book every day

...I take “reading abook every day” to mean reading every day. Period. I’ve read every single day since I got a basic grasp on phonics, and I haven’t looked back. Honestly, I’m not going to list all the books I’ve read, as I’ve not the memory and it’s tedious, but I do think this is worth it. There’s are whole worlds out there between the flaps of those books – go and play in ‘em. :)

woah i would love 2 do dis

I am doing violin, calligraphy and losing weight, this goal is not for me…

I will read everyday and do read everyday but i can’t finish a book every day.

I can’t do this because I just can’t find the time, even now, when I’m on vacation my time is spent on other things. Usually less important like lounging around and turning into a vegetable and watching t.v. You can see how difficult this task was for me. Anyways once school rolls around I can’t continue with this goal because I’m in college with a full course load of five classes. I won’t have the time to devote three to five hours on a decent book ( this is my usually reading rate for a 300 pg. book that’s at the high school level or above)

When I say book, I mean stuff like regular books, mangas, children’s literature, young adult, romances, and magazines but I won’t count reading a few articles in something or newspapers.
Let me do some calculations:
I had summer classes, so vacation actually began last week on July, Friday the 13 and vacation ends on the 20th of August, so I should read at least 29 books by then. This is a big task since I plan to finish the last Harry Potter book and read The Scarlett Letter with my sister (this book is a reread for me).

Well, I read often, but at this point I’m not sure a book a day is doable. I do read a lot of academic articles and Japanese comics – do they count as books? I’m inclined to think it doesn’t really matter; I’m also inclined to think “read a book every day” doesn’t necessarily mean finish a book every day.

Either way, I’ve given Seager’s Encountering the Dharma a read, as well as Bridget Jones’ Diary (again). The former was really helpful because it’s a book on Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist organization for the Nichiren Shoshu sect. I’d been grappling with the same issues as Seager, about how to approach this controversial book in my research. His journey gave me some insight into how to go about doing things.

As for Bridget Jones, it’s always a great laugh, and it was a pleasure rereading it. :)

no time. honest to goat, that’s simply it: I just don’t have time for that anymore! two days ago I read a book of Ezra Pound’s poetry, yesterday I read this book on syntax (EXCITING, RIGHT!?), and today I’m about 30 pages into Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. and I have realized that I just don’t have TIME anymore.

well, I do, but not if I wanna do any other shit.

so this is going on the backburners for now. I’ll finish The Lovely Bones today and then I’ll finish the rest of the books I checked out from the library this time around and then I’ll just chill out, you know? maybe I’ll come back to this goal some other time… or something.

I’m doing this because I need to improve my reading speed. I actually read pretty fast (average 45 pages / 30 min), but the longer I read something, the slower I go, so by the time I’ve been reading for two hours, I’m doing like a paragraph a minute. My concentration just disappears! It’s CRAZY!

so I’m going to try to do this now, even with my crazy schoolwork schedule and my sports schedule and my chill out schedule (yes, I have one, haha). yesterday, I did Janet Fitch’s White Oleander, the day before that I did Ander Monson’s Other Electricities, TWO days ago I reread Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (one of my favorite books, so that was kinda cheatin’, but still!), and today I’m going to be doing The Crying of Lot 49.

- can you believe I’ve never read that before? And I’ve loved Thomas Pynchon since I read Gravity’s Rainbow!

so… yeah. gonna see how long I can keep it up. given the absolutely ENORMOUS amount of work I have even today and should probably be doing right now, I’m not TOO enthusiastic for my prospects of going hard for more than a week, but you know, who’s to blame a girl for tryin’?

Completed 3/30/2007

It sounds so darn simple. Reading a book everyday. You know what, I’d settle for a book a week. So I go to the library very often, pick up a book of two. I read the literature papers, I watch book shows on TV, but then – when everything is all set and ready for me to read – I find myself doing something else. It’s not that I don’t read at all, maybe a couple of books a month, but that’s not enough. The “I want to read” list is getting longer by the day, and I will never close the gap now!
The really great people of the world, people like Sartre could do it. He read 300 books a year (that’s at least according to his biography). But me? I am surfing 43Things instead of broadening my horizons, wasting my time on the s#$#$...
Ok, now I’m serious – I am going to do this gradually. I’ll start from 1 book until next Sunday. Any support will be welcomed. If I’ll stick to it, I’ll take another book. If now, I wish to be publicly humiliated over this site.
Thanks in advance to everybody.