Planning

Next year will definitely be a book year. If I was going to push myself, it'd probably be a book a week; I think I'll do a book every two weeks. 26 books for a year sounds about right. If I manage 40 I'll have to give myself some kind of bonus.

I'll be taking recommendations, obviously, but I think I'm also going to make a rule that every other book has to be one that's already sitting on my shelf as opposed to one that I seek out new. I might put up a list of some of the ones that I own and see if anyone goes "OOH OOH! READ THAT ONE!!!"

It might also be an excuse to start writing book reviews again. Haven't done that in a while. Hmm.

From one of my favorite authors

"It all depends on our ability to devise a set of robust arguments favoring either scientific materialism or theistic revelation and then communicating the salient points to the Martians in their nonlinguistic language, which was apparently deciphered several years ago by a paranoid schizophrenic named Annie Porlock," I told Valerie.

"That's not a sentence you hear every day," she replied.

--from "The War of the Worldviews" by James Morrow