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12.26.2005

On the 'books read' listing in the right hand margin...

I can only remember the four books listed as having been read in '05, so it looks like I didn't read much. I may have read more. I am, though, only listing books I read cover-to-cover. (People who claim to read hundreds of books a year I suspect are talking about just any book they touch or skim or look up a reference in during the course of the year...) I tend to read torturously when I read a book complete. I have to read every word including copyright page.

I say I didn't read many books last year though any year you read the Bible complete you've read alot, I guess it could be said.

I mainly want to list books I read now in the coming year. Books, again, I actually read complete. A way to see if I am or am not wasting days, at least regarding book reading...

UPDATE: I'm reading two short books that I'll be finished with before the new year. I looked at what I had read this year and saw that a work of history was missing, so I took down a little book I'd ordered within the last year and never read, Calvinism in History by Nathaniel S. McFetridge (first published in 1882). It's only a hundred or so pages, and a quick read. Then of course I am in the midst of reading Ouspensky's Cosmology of Man's Possible Evolution which I will finish before the new year as well...

Posted by c.t. at 03:21