A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [...] Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monday, January 7
The Great Reading List of '08
So I've been meaning to add a "Books I'm reading/read" widget for a while now, and what better time than the New Year to start tracking my reading habits? Nobody has ever questioned that I read a lot (hello--Literature major?), but this year I will discover exactly how many books I read. I'm even going to try to review the books I read, but we'll see how that goes...no promises. So far I haven't completed any books, so the two you see in my sidebar are both "in progress." Check it out!
Dan Leone, a blogger I read and really like, is taking part in a book reading challenge at the moment. Maybe it might be worth looking into.
ReplyDeleteAs one whose focus was in creative writing, I feel no compulsion to engage in this literature stuff.
ReplyDelete(Of course, apparently I also feel no compulsion to write all that creatively either.)
Well, at least someone is giving publishers a reason to keep printing up books.