Today’s 5pm post will be the last one until 2010. Posts will resume on Friday, 1/8/10 at 5pm and will update weekly from then. Happy Holidays and New Year, everyone!
Update Frequency
I’m trying something new vis a vis how I update the blog. I haven’t posted anything in a while, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading. Instead, I’ve been getting a bit ahead. Starting today, the blog will update on Sunday at 5pm and on Wednesday at 5pm. There’s no way I can keep up the 2/week rate (unless I cheat by reading lots of graphic novels), so at some point that’ll come back down to just Sundays. However, I don’t want the blog to get too far ahead of what I’m actually reading at the moment, so we’ll do the 2/week for a little bit. Thanksgiving and Christmas are often peak reading periods, anyway, because I get days off from work. My hope is that by having a back log I’ll be able to be more reliable without feeling under pressure to read when I don’t want to. Anyway, that’s the plan. Hope it works.
Maiden Post (pun intended)
Soooo I have been invited to periodically post in J’s blog (aside from the snarky comments I write as M the Magnificent). I don’t intend to write many entries, but if I read a book that’s particularly terrible (normally the result of our Random Book Project), I may write something about it. And I’ll give it a harsh grade as necessary.
Random Books
Every now and then, I will tag a book I read with “random books,” so I thought I should explain what that means. M and I have a huge number of books that one or both of us haven’t read. So, every now and then, we both agree that the next book we’re going to read will be randomly selected from our library. The rules are that whatever book it is (and we include almost all categories, such as: history, economics, philosophy, political science, etc.) you have to read it next. If the book is super long (e.g. Les Miserables or The Wealth of Nations) then you don’t have to read it exclusively, though you do eventually have to finish it. The only exceptions are the few books you have the right to blackball. You only have one blackball so there is the possibility that you’ll blackball one of these books and then end up with another, but that’s unlikely. The books you’re allowed to blackball are all textbooks, the Complete Works of Shakespeare, The Complete Works of Plato, the Basic Works of Aristotle & the Bible.
Update Frequency
Since I have to finish a book in order to update the blog, the frequency of updates will obviously vary according to how much I’m doing, the length of the book, the type of book, etc. My plan is to try and update a minimum of once a week (probably on Sunday). I won’t always have read a book in that week, but in the weeks that I haven’t read a book I will probably write a post on a short story. Unlike books, not every short story I read will get turned into a blog post, but by adding short stories to the mix, I hope to make the update schedule more predictable.
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