I tried to find a statistics regarding the number of books the average American reads per year, and instead found out that 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school...
Here's the books I've completed so far (in chronological order by date of completion)
1. The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse (Jan 25)
2. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie (Feb 3)
3. Cities on a Hill - Frances Fitzgerald (Feb 20)
4. The Plague - Albert Camus (Mar 3)
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin (Mar 7)
6. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (Mar 10)
7. And Still We Rise - Miles Corwin (Mar 15)
8. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (Mar 16)
9. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (Apr 6)
10. How to Read and Why - Harold Bloom (Apr 18)
11. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop - Bakari Kitwana (Apr 24)
12. And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave (May 10)
13. Miss Lonelyhearts/Day of the Locust - Nathanael West (May 19)
14. Saint Francis - Nikos Kazantzakis (June 12)
15. Wandering - Hermann Hesse (June 17)
16. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (June 29)
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
a start.
Basically I just wanted a blog because my two best friends have one and I didn't want to be left out.
I also need practice writing, but in a way where I won't feel so self conscious (which is what always happens when I attempt to write anything "real" because I'm a critic before I'm a creator) and in my opinion a blog is like writing-lite. It doesn't have to be important or elucidating all though I'd guess that accidently happens more often than not.
My main critique of blogs is the same of journals: they are usually quite boring. And to be honest, I find my current life to fall under the category of "fairly mundane." However, I think a good story has less to do with the plot and more to do with the manner of telling. I hope to release a few good stories, a few musings about concepts, and a few sociological observations....to let the harsh critic in me take a rest...
I also need practice writing, but in a way where I won't feel so self conscious (which is what always happens when I attempt to write anything "real" because I'm a critic before I'm a creator) and in my opinion a blog is like writing-lite. It doesn't have to be important or elucidating all though I'd guess that accidently happens more often than not.
My main critique of blogs is the same of journals: they are usually quite boring. And to be honest, I find my current life to fall under the category of "fairly mundane." However, I think a good story has less to do with the plot and more to do with the manner of telling. I hope to release a few good stories, a few musings about concepts, and a few sociological observations....to let the harsh critic in me take a rest...
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