I’m doing this because I need to improve my reading speed. I actually read pretty fast (average 45 pages / 30 min), but the longer I read something, the slower I go, so by the time I’ve been reading for two hours, I’m doing like a paragraph a minute. My concentration just disappears! It’s CRAZY!

so I’m going to try to do this now, even with my crazy schoolwork schedule and my sports schedule and my chill out schedule (yes, I have one, haha). yesterday, I did Janet Fitch’s White Oleander, the day before that I did Ander Monson’s Other Electricities, TWO days ago I reread Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (one of my favorite books, so that was kinda cheatin’, but still!), and today I’m going to be doing The Crying of Lot 49.

- can you believe I’ve never read that before? And I’ve loved Thomas Pynchon since I read Gravity’s Rainbow!

so… yeah. gonna see how long I can keep it up. given the absolutely ENORMOUS amount of work I have even today and should probably be doing right now, I’m not TOO enthusiastic for my prospects of going hard for more than a week, but you know, who’s to blame a girl for tryin’?