always be reading a really good book

I’ve got so many classic books I want to read before uni…How to Kill A Mockingbird, Sherlock Holmes, Wuthering Heights plus way too many more… Yet I still go back to the fantasy/chicklit lol. Less than a year to go so I better get reading….

I’m not usually the biggest reader in the world (in fact, until now, my reading habits have been sporadic at best.) But when I get down to it and actually pick up a book, I really enjoy it – all in all, I think this goal is a good one for me, since it’ll encourage me to actually read consistently :)

Right now I’m reading To Kill a Mockingbird, which is really, incredibly good (I’ve seen the movie several times and love it, so it’s a huge compliment for me to say that the book is much, much better)

I haven’t decided on what I’m reading next, but I have to say I’m enjoying this goal so far :)

I generally have 3 or 4 books going at a time, plus several audiobooks. This probably isn’t good for my ADD tendencies, but it’s the way I’ve worked forever. There’s usually one serious or semi-serious book (right now they are generally about Judaism), a couple of fluffy ones, and 2-3 varied audios (right now it’s Wicked in the car and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Huckleberry Finn and Simon Winchester’s book about the SF earthquake on my MP3 player…).

to be reading things for the next 6 months

... of some kind. That’s the mix I try and maintain. I burn through the novels fairly quickly, the philosophy goes most slowly, and the technical manuals – mostly business books, or books on writing or reading – fall somewhere in between.

At the moment, I’m nearly done reading Collapse by Jared Diamond. Absolutely brilliant!! Explains reasons behind why some societies have failed and others succeeded. In the chapter I’m reading at the moment, he’s talking about good and bad decision-making processes in corporations. I had no idea, for example, that oil-mining corporations were largely now environmentally responsible and that mineral-mining companies were not…

Fascinating stuff.

to buy cheap books from the used book store in my neighborhood. that way i’ll always have something for the subway, and honestly, the $5 i’d spend at the used book place every week is probably cheaper than the library fines i’d accumulate…