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Recent reading: there hasn't been much. Firstly, all my books are in boxes in the limonaio; secondly, there has been so much to do with the bank-administrative and the various unpacking and the general trying to get my nerves resettled that I have had very little brain, and I've gone through the comfort books that aren't in boxes. (I should and will check more comfort books out of the library.)
( The couple of things I have been reading. )
The third reason I haven't been reading much is that I expect to be doing a lot of reading very shortly. I read very fast, and the idea occurred to me some time ago that it would be interesting to do a year in which I read and reviewed a new book every day, no rereads. (I mean no reviewing the rereads. I read fast enough that I don't expect this to curb my rereading.) Then it occurred to me that if I begin on my upcoming birthday, the year would start on my twenty-ninth birthday and end on my thirtieth, which is exactly the kind of pointless symbolism with which I am the most delighted.
So that starts August 29th. One book a day, every day. Reviews will be posted publicly here. This post is where people can recommend me books; three hundred and sixty-five is at least a mini-syllabus in whatever subject area you'd like to give me a primer in, and there are several genres I haven't read in very widely (the Russian novel, the mystery novel post Christie, contemporary literary). The genres I have read in very widely are SF/F, YA, historical biography, intellectual history, memoir, history of theology, music/film/comic criticism, food, lit theory, feminist theory and urban studies. I've read a bit of romance but not as much. Unsurprisingly, the areas I read most widely are also the genres I like best. Recs of things you'd like me to review cheerfully accepted, assuming I haven't read them already.
I have access to a pretty good library system from which I can check books out, and an also pretty good university library, ditto. The university library has a very good sf collection which one has to read in-house, so I can't do that often. Apart from that, there is one bookstore in this town (i.e. within a couple of hours drive) and it is a Barnes & Noble which is not terrible but not terrific. So I can probably but not certainly get hold of most things in this town that I want to read, although there is a distressing local lack of Naomi Mitchison.
I am in hopes that getting up every morning, reading something, and writing about it will help me establish a routine and recollect after the move. That said, I realize this is a lot of books, but I think it will have interesting enough effects on the inside of my head to be worth a shot, and hopefully we will all get some entertaining reviews out of it. (This would also be where you tell me if you think this is a terrible idea.)
( The couple of things I have been reading. )
The third reason I haven't been reading much is that I expect to be doing a lot of reading very shortly. I read very fast, and the idea occurred to me some time ago that it would be interesting to do a year in which I read and reviewed a new book every day, no rereads. (I mean no reviewing the rereads. I read fast enough that I don't expect this to curb my rereading.) Then it occurred to me that if I begin on my upcoming birthday, the year would start on my twenty-ninth birthday and end on my thirtieth, which is exactly the kind of pointless symbolism with which I am the most delighted.
So that starts August 29th. One book a day, every day. Reviews will be posted publicly here. This post is where people can recommend me books; three hundred and sixty-five is at least a mini-syllabus in whatever subject area you'd like to give me a primer in, and there are several genres I haven't read in very widely (the Russian novel, the mystery novel post Christie, contemporary literary). The genres I have read in very widely are SF/F, YA, historical biography, intellectual history, memoir, history of theology, music/film/comic criticism, food, lit theory, feminist theory and urban studies. I've read a bit of romance but not as much. Unsurprisingly, the areas I read most widely are also the genres I like best. Recs of things you'd like me to review cheerfully accepted, assuming I haven't read them already.
I have access to a pretty good library system from which I can check books out, and an also pretty good university library, ditto. The university library has a very good sf collection which one has to read in-house, so I can't do that often. Apart from that, there is one bookstore in this town (i.e. within a couple of hours drive) and it is a Barnes & Noble which is not terrible but not terrific. So I can probably but not certainly get hold of most things in this town that I want to read, although there is a distressing local lack of Naomi Mitchison.
I am in hopes that getting up every morning, reading something, and writing about it will help me establish a routine and recollect after the move. That said, I realize this is a lot of books, but I think it will have interesting enough effects on the inside of my head to be worth a shot, and hopefully we will all get some entertaining reviews out of it. (This would also be where you tell me if you think this is a terrible idea.)
