Happy New Year! READING!
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foxinthestarsHappy New Year everyone! As I start this post I have about an hour to go, so I'll stay up for it.
Yuletide authors have been revealed, so I can now 'fess up to the quiet little Cadfael fic I wrote. I am pleased with how it came out, but I'm maybe a little dissatisfied with my own tendency toward quiet thinky things. Maybe I should make sure my next project has an action scene...
Speaking of projects, just this evening something came up on my Facebook feed that rather excited me, enough that I think I'll actually do it: a 2016 Book-Reading Challenge!
It's a checklist to fill in with books that you read, and it could be a good way to vary the diet and get to some things that are sitting around, and like I said, I just found it exciting. Here's the original source, and here is the original list:
-A book published this year (2016)
-A book you can finish in a day
-A book you've been meaning to read
-A book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller
-A book you should have read in school
-A book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, sibling, child, or BFF
-A book published before you were born
-A book that was banned at some point
-A book you previously abandoned
-A book you own but have never read
-A book that intimidates you
-A book you've already read at least once
And in my excitement I even brainstormed up some additional bonus points for myself:
-An untranslated book in a language that's not your first
-A translated book originally written in a language you don't know
-A book in audio form
-A book in a genre you don't usually read
-A book you've seen an adaptation of but haven't read
-An instructional book with lessons/exercises/projects --- do them all! (Yeah, this one's the most ambitious)
I've already decided no double-counting, and comics and picture books don't count except maybe in special cases. (There is a reason I still own a copy of Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, but using it to check three boxes in fifteen minutes just takes the fun out of things.)
At the moment, I'm working on Zealot by Reza Aslan, basically his attempt to sketch out the most likely scenario for the historical Jesus --- interesting stuff and respectful in its way (so says an apostate). I do recommend the endnotes on this one. Once it's done I can see about that list...
Half hour to go (in my timezone)!
Yuletide authors have been revealed, so I can now 'fess up to the quiet little Cadfael fic I wrote. I am pleased with how it came out, but I'm maybe a little dissatisfied with my own tendency toward quiet thinky things. Maybe I should make sure my next project has an action scene...
Speaking of projects, just this evening something came up on my Facebook feed that rather excited me, enough that I think I'll actually do it: a 2016 Book-Reading Challenge!
It's a checklist to fill in with books that you read, and it could be a good way to vary the diet and get to some things that are sitting around, and like I said, I just found it exciting. Here's the original source, and here is the original list:
-A book published this year (2016)
-A book you can finish in a day
-A book you've been meaning to read
-A book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller
-A book you should have read in school
-A book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, sibling, child, or BFF
-A book published before you were born
-A book that was banned at some point
-A book you previously abandoned
-A book you own but have never read
-A book that intimidates you
-A book you've already read at least once
And in my excitement I even brainstormed up some additional bonus points for myself:
-An untranslated book in a language that's not your first
-A translated book originally written in a language you don't know
-A book in audio form
-A book in a genre you don't usually read
-A book you've seen an adaptation of but haven't read
-An instructional book with lessons/exercises/projects --- do them all! (Yeah, this one's the most ambitious)
I've already decided no double-counting, and comics and picture books don't count except maybe in special cases. (There is a reason I still own a copy of Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, but using it to check three boxes in fifteen minutes just takes the fun out of things.)
At the moment, I'm working on Zealot by Reza Aslan, basically his attempt to sketch out the most likely scenario for the historical Jesus --- interesting stuff and respectful in its way (so says an apostate). I do recommend the endnotes on this one. Once it's done I can see about that list...
Half hour to go (in my timezone)!
