My new reading list - online!
Melody | Friday, 11 January, 2008 at 4:28 PM 
Are you one of those people who keeps a list of the books you read? Can you imagine being able to look back at a list and have every single book you ever read on it? I can't, but it'd be fun...I wish I'd started one of those when I was a kid and reading so prolifically. Nowadays, I'm doing well if I read an entire book in a month. Too many blogs...too much clay...too many other things capturing my attention.
Today I decided that while it's still the early part of a fresh, new year, I'll start a list for 2008. It won't be nearly as impressive as the list I might have now if I'd started when I was really reading. But still, it's a start.
After this blog post, you'll be able to check the list anytime you're curious - I'll have a link in my navigation bar, over there on the left side of this site. If I don't totally reorganize my site the way I sometimes do, you'll find the link under "for fun." Notice how I had to pad it a bit? Started with those ones I read the last week of '07. Never mind. It's my list...I can start whenever I want, right?
Reader Comments (5)
I started keeping a list in February of 1996. What's interesting to me is comparing how many books I read each year. 2004 was my peak with 84 books read, while 1999 was a low with only 35 books. 35 books! What the #$%@ was I doing with my time?? Even 84 seems low. An unofficial goal for this year is to blow by that number. Perhaps I'll look to your list for inspiration. =)
Hmmm! Do I want my list online, after all?
Darlin', if 35-84 seems low, you will most certainly not find inspiration in my list. Compared to your numbers, I'm barely reading at all. But I enjoy my leetle reading and once I stop reeling from the bar you've set, I'll be just fine... even if I don't blow past your low number!
Do cook books count? If not then I'm pathetic..
Ahh, yes. The reading list. Heard of Goodreads? It's a site where you can track what you've read, rate it, and review it, among other things. I somehow got sucked into it late last year, and I've got this cool widget on the side of the blog now that shows what I've recently read. Pretty awesome.
I'd put up the list of books I'd like to read, but it's too long!
Tamara, of course cookbooks count! We read what we like...you're not pathetic at all.
I think you've mentioned Goodreads to me before. I had meant to check it out, but haven't taken the time before. It sounds nifty, though.
This does present an interesting observation I've had, though. All around me people are using cool widgets for photo and book and other online services that make their sites so interesting, while I have many of the functionality those other sites provide, right here at my fingertips with Squarespace. There are, of course, things the other sites provide that Squarespace doesn't, but the core offerings - photo galleries, tidy list-management with links to Amazon - make it so easy NOT to look elsewhere I often don't... Of course I get that the others often offer a social-networking element that would allow others to post comments, but I'm cool without the comments thus-far...
Gonna' spend some time looking at your reviews soon. Meanwhile I've probably read 10 more pages in the current book on my list. There's just so much else going on...!