A certain Styleygeek has called me to task for not updating anyone on how I'm doing with my book-a-day reading, seemingly assuming that I haven't been keeping up with it. (It's almost like she knew I wasn't actually keeping up with it...)
On the first day of the month, I read Modris Ecksteins' Walking Since Daybreak. But I haven't yet typed up my notes about it. (Okay, and I finished reading it on the 2nd, because the book was too good! I couldn't just skim and read the important parts!)
And now, five days later, I'm reading my second book. I know. I'm not so good at this. But, right now I'm examining Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time. I've also typed up some notes about the book.
Tomorrow, I'll analyse and type up notes for Douglas Owram's Government Generation, knocking an item off my Canada list. And that'll be the real challenge, because I'll also be teaching seminar, and running all my Tuesday errands. This'll be good for me.
(I've written 274 words this month, so far. I should set a word goal. Let's see: two 1200-word essays, plus a page each of typed-up notes from twenty-five books, brings me to a goal of 9900 words. I'll round it up to 10,000 words this month, after this point.)
I hope certain parrot enthusiasts from the Southern hemisphere are happy with themselves, makign me get work done.
1 comment:
So if you include blogging, that makes it 20,000 words this month? Just checkin'. :D
Derek out.
P.S. My word verification was "hwrknt", which I interpret as "He workin' it." Which I am.
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