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Still Feeling Guilty

2007-08-22T18:26:43Z

Where you fall in poll of U.S. reading habits - CNN.com

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- There it sits on your nightstand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open. Tonight, as you feel its stare from beneath that teetering pile of magazines, know one thing -- you are not alone.

My goal of reading 25 books this year has fallen short as I've just gotten through ten so far. I had wanted to surpass my pace of reading a book a month in 2006 so at least I'm on track to do that. But still, I'm feeling guilty. I don't even feel consoled by this article, which states:

"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?

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Main Squeezes

2007-04-06T21:05:30Z

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:

If you're not in this list, it doesn't mean I don't love you too. It probably just means I haven't added a photo of you to my blog yet.

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:

25 Books in 2007

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My 2007 Book Goal

2007-01-12T22:44:23Z

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.)

Sex and the City

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.

I recommend it, especially for fans of the show.

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