While I'll never be as prolific a reader and book reviewer as Duffbert is, I do get quite a bit of reading done while I'm at the beach. While I'm beaching it pretty regularly in the summer, I tend to think of what I get through on my week there as my summer reading list. No particular reason, except that it reminds me of school for some reason.
I'm listing the books I read last week while I was out. I was averaging 300-400 pages a day for the 8 full days which is about average for a beach trip to me.
- "Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask" (New Scientist)
- "The Long Hard Road Out of Hell" (Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss)
- "Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Today Show Book Club #25)" (Christopher Moore)
- "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel" (Susanna Clarke)
- "Beach Road" (James Patterson, Peter de Jonge)
- "Dark Harbor" (David Hosp)
- "Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit (Pro - Resource Kit)" (Bill English, Microsoft Corporation) (300 or so pages of 1200)
One of the many things I want to do in the coming year is to increasing the speed of my reading...without affecting my retention of course. I'd like to be able to get more reading in when I'm not at the beach.
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You don't *want* to be as prolific a reader as I am... :)
One of those "it's a blessing and a curse" kind of things? :D
I used to read a lot more books. Sometime over the years I started reading more material online rather in books. I miss the old days.
i saw a lizard eat a wasp one time. the wasp was sitting on top of a big bush and the lizard popped up from the branches underneath and got it. i wondered if the lizard survived...