3 posts tagged “2007 books”
"One in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday....The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year -- half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven."
I have a little over four months left. Maybe I can get to 15?
After the sixth person brought up my off-handed use of the phrase 'main squeeze' a few entries back, I realized that this is interesting subject matter to some of my readers!
So I thought I would share just a partial list of some other main squeezes in my life:
Odds & sods
Did you know that iterate and reiterate have the same definition? Same goes for unravel and ravel.
The phrase "The revolution will not be
televised" has been randomly stuck in my head for the past day. Take a moment
to read the poem where the phrase comes from, it's well worth the time.
I'm seven books deep into my quest to read 25 books in 2007. I'm adding them all to this collection:
Last January, after thinking about the hundreds of books that I want to read and how little time I have left (relatively) to get through all of them, I set a goal to read at least one book a month.
2006's book-a-month goal ended up being really reasonable and effective, and most months I got through two or three books. I didn't blog all of them though, because I kept forgetting and then of course there were some books that I didn't care to announce to the world (chick lit, etc.)
This year's book goal is to read 25 books in 2007. I just finished my first of '07: "Sex and the City", a compilation of Candace Bushnell's columns which later inspired the series. It's a relatively light read and perfect to take on a flight (I bought this version for about $7 in the airport) but that's not to discredit Bushnell's writing. She can be direct and breezy, in a good way, and she has a knack for nuance, presenting "just the facts" of a situation while letting you read between the lines and know just what she thought of it.
