Sunday, November 17, 2019

Sunday Five - Reading Materials

We are about six weeks away from my end of the year list of every book I have read this year.  Barring unforeseen circumstances,  I will once again exceed the pace of a book a week.  I have an advantage, I have a 60 to 90 minutes on the subway going to and from work, 4 or 5 days a week, my reading time.  

 Hence the Sunday five on reading: 
1: What are you reading now? 
2: How fast do you read? 
3: Have you bought any books this year, that you have not read and are unsure you will ever read? 
4: Can a person be well read, if they don't read novels? 
5: Do you keep a list of the books you have read? 

 My answers: 
1: What are you reading now? Hauling Checks, by Alex Stone 
2: How fast do you read? 40 to 50 pages an hour, with occasional gusts. 
3: Have you bought any books this year, that you have not read and are unsure you will ever read? Yes, Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward - too depressing.
4: Can a person be well read, if they don't read novels? I hope so. 
5: Do you keep a list of the books you have read? I started 3 years ago, and have been posting on my blog.  I wish I had started a read log 30 years ago.  I have a log of every hotel I have stayed in since 2005.

 Please share your answers in the comments. 
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10 comments:

  1. Mistress Maddie11/17/2019

    1: What are you reading now? YOU!
    2: How fast do you read? Oh who knows...the gin you see.
    3: Have you bought any books this year, that you have not read and are unsure you will ever read? Nope.
    4: Can a person be well read, if they don't read novels? Absolutely!
    5: Do you keep a list of the books you have read? No, but I do keep a list of tried gins!!!

    And your Trump in the White House?!?!?! Do you want more nightmares then now before bed?

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    1. Travel11/17/2019

      almost 10 hours sleep last night, I want to keep it that way

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  2. Moving with Mitchell11/17/2019

    1: What are you reading now? Hornet Flight by Ken Follett because a neighbor gave it to me.
    2: How fast do you read? Usually a book a week. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
    3: Have you bought any books this year, that you have not read and are unsure you will ever read? No.
    4: Can a person be well read, if they don't read novels? Sure
    5: Do you keep a list of the books you have read? No, and I probably should. It's better now since most of my reading is done on my iPad, which keeps a list for me. But I regularly bought books I had already read because they changed the cover design.

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    1. Travel11/17/2019

      Amazon will tell me if I have ever bought it from them, then a venture into toyland (a book store) and buy dupes.

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  3. anne marie in philly11/17/2019

    1: "the good neighbor", a bio of fred rogers
    2: depends on the subject matter
    3: no way!
    4: yes
    5: no

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    1. Travel11/17/2019

      Fred Rogers when to undergrad the same place I did (and Buddy Ebsen and a Nobel prize winning physicist that no one remembers the name of.)

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  4. Debra She Who Seeks11/17/2019

    You put me to shame. My year-end post (in January) about the list of books I've completed this year is going to be a complete and utter DISASTER. How's that for foreboding foreshadowing?

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  5. Ur-spo11/17/2019

    1: What are you reading now? A book on the history of money; "The Golden Ass"
    2: How fast do you read? paradoxically too fast and too slow as well
    3: Have you bought any books this year, that you have not read and are unsure you will ever read? lots it's called tsundoku
    4: Can a person be well read, if they don't read novels? yes
    5: Do you keep a list of the books you have read? yes, in each year's journal.

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