1 Year, 365 Books

#1

1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/13/09 at 11:06pm

Here's a woman who is reading one book per day.

I checked my list for 2009 and I've read twelve. I guess I better get cracking.
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#2

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 12:10am

Ha ha.

My sister seems to read almost that many. Every year!

They know her at the library.

I read about 300 books in about month one summer. You might say I was speed-reading them. And interestingly, it was also after someone died. Three people, actually. I found out what I wanted to know.

But that is an unusually high volume for me. I don't read that many in a year.

Updated On: 10/14/09 at 12:10 AM

#3

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 12:20am

Damn. I'm a slow reader. Depending on how busy I am it takes a month or two to finish a book. If I really get into one then I can slam it down in a couple weeks.

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#4

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 12:31am

Ha ha!

A two-week long slam-down!

#5

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 4:28am

I could certainly do this, but I'd read a lot of kids books (well, I do that anyway) and wouldn't have much time for theatre or West Wing.

I did manage to read my height in books in eleven months once. That was fun.

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#6

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 4:53am

Yeah. I could probably do this, but it'd feel like a crazy chore and I'd start resenting it.

With books, I go through periods. Sometimes I don't read anything for months, sometimes I become an extremely prolific reader for a few months. Sometimes I'm in between. Average, leisurely.

#7

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 5:52am

I'm the same way Craww. I tend to not read for pleasure during school b/c I always feel guilty that I'm not reading something finance-related or studying.
But when I do pick up a book (or kindle) for a novel, I read it a day or two.

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#8

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 8:46am

I'm with ya'll. There are times I can kill off 2 - 3 books in a week, but other times it takes me 2 - 3 weeks to get through one. So frustrating.

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#9

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 10:03am

The hardest thing is choosing a new book when you have just finished something wonderful. I just read Antony Sher's YEAR OF THE KING in one day, and now I can't seem to get into a new book.

#10

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 10:18am

I counted and I'm up to nineteen books so far this year. I'd love to do something like this, but it would probably require me to drop out of school, quit my job and stop communicating with friends and family. And really, like she said, you can only read short books--what the fun of indulging if epics are off the table?

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#11

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 10:28am

I could probably read a book a day too if I had no job and household help on the weekends. As it is, I'd rather not cram an entire book into my evening hours just for the sake of getting it done on a deadline.

I know my father reads most books in about a day and a half, but he doesn't make a goal of it.

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#12

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 1:53pm

Having this aggressive a a reading schedule seems to be a sure fire way to take the fun out of it.

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#13

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 5:38pm

Try reading Gotham or The Golden Bough or Shamanism in one day.

That'd cure you of the effort fast.

#14

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 6:07pm

If it were 1 book, 365 days, I'd totally kick ass.

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#15

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 6:11pm

"If it were 1 book, 365 days, I'd totally kick ass."

As long as it was Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat"

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#16

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 6:15pm

Whoa that's crazy! I wish I had time to read a book a day. Or even a book a week!

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#17

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/14/09 at 10:11pm

'They know her at the library'

I can't imagine not being known at my library

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#18

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/15/09 at 12:14am

Another bookie.

I suspected as much.

#19

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:14pm

I can't her remember much, It has to all jumble together.

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#20

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:53pm

If I do most my reading to my afternoon commute and occasionally at lunch if I forget to buy the paper I can get through a book in a week, more if I read it in the evenings, but I don't do that every night. One trips, vacations, etc, I knock out two or three, depending.

More power to this lady and all, but it's not so much the fast reading, it's that I wonder what sort of insight someone share (admitting I've not really perused her blog) when you read a book in less than 24 hours and then post your pontifications on it. I've had books that have stayed with me for days, hell, even months. The ones that cause a truly visceral reaction in me aren't that common (maybe one in ten at best), but when they do.. man. Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" was one of those. If your idea of fun is really heavy, at times harrowing read, I highly recommend it.

#21

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/16/09 at 10:44am

As long as it was Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat"

HAR DE HAR HAR!

It's "Fox in Socks", smartass.

***SPOILER***

I'm at the part where the insects armed with weapons are engaged in a war in a flooded glass container. Don't tell me what happens next!

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#22

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/16/09 at 5:06pm

I could do this if it was 1 year, 365 one-act plays.

#23

re: 1 Year, 365 Books

Posted: 10/16/09 at 5:09pm

During college, I did not really do any pleasure reading because I has so much school reading to do. I am doing some pleasure reading now, and it is nice. Even after graduation, it takes me forever to finish a book. I actually like stretching a book out for an extended period of time.

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