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January 17, 2008
New Years Resolutions
I was relieved to see that it's apparently not too late to make New Year's Resolutions for 2008, even though we are well into the third week of the year. While I love the motto "More Sex, Less Financial Ruin", this year I'm going to take a more pragmatic approach and:
Read More Books
Through a combination of more frequent overnight guests, a lapse in my audiobook membership, countless weeks traveling for the Big Idea, and a bevy of magazine subscriptions, I have fallen off the book-reading bandwagon. (Spare me Mr. Bad Apologies--yes I know I've read more books in a year than you've read in your whole life.)
So my resolution for 2008 is to start reading again. Literary fiction, biographies, memoirs, mysteries, crime novels, police procedurals, churned out Dan Patterson and Danielle Steele tripe, historical romance, hell--even Harlequin romance. It's all up for grabs. Except maybe anime--I just don't get the cartoons.
Let the page-turning begin.
I made this resolution a couple weeks ago when I thought I might be dying of bubonic plague, and I'm happy to report that I've already completed one book and am well on my way through a second. But tonight I've learned an added lesson: when finding oneself suddenly alone after a night of adventure and excitement, when one expected to have an overnight guest but was instead merely dropped at the curb, it is a comforting thought indeed to say "I couldn't be bothered with you anyway, I have a book to get through."
Now let me see if I have any erotica laying around.
Comments
I saw a crazy stat yesterday: Steve Jobs claims that 40% of the US population last year didn't read even one book.
Posted by: joshb at January 17, 2008 09:53 AM
