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Panicked a bit today — It’s already June — The year’s almost half over. What do I have to show for it? What do YOU have to show for it?
It’s a good idea not to ask yourself questions like that too often, especially if you’re trying to cut back on drinking.
Anyway — For the rest of this year, I’m gonna have a monthly goal. And I’m starting it off ambitiously: Reading a book a day. I’ve found they can be helpful in calming existential panic attacks.
The books won’t all be green themed — but the posts will be, hopefully. Maybe with ideas for reading books without clearcutting forests.
And if I get panicked I haven’t much to show for the days that keep flying by, at least on June 30 I can say, well, at least I read 30 books.
That is if I actually manage to read 30 books. You can follow my reading list here, on All Consuming.
— Books read –
1. Helene Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
2. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
3. Sheherazade Goldsmith, ed. A Slice of Organic Life
4. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon, Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
6. Barry Yourgrau, Wearing Dad’s Head
7. Katie Degentesh, The Anger Scale
8. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
9. Eduardo Punset, The Happiness Trip: A Scientific Journey
10. Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, The Clean Tech Revolution
11. Jessica Benjamin, Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
12. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
13. Harry Wiland and Dale Bell with Joseph D’Agnese, Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities
14. Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen, The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
15. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
16. Diane DiPrima, Pieces of a Song
17. D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
18. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
19. Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, Pour Your Heart Into It
20. Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint
21. Andre Gide, The Immoralist
22. Jennifer Calkins, A Story of Witchery
23. Nuala M. Archer, Inch Aeons
24. Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
25. Paul Valery, Monsieur Teste
26. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
27. Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart
28. Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
29. James Purdy, In a Shallow Grave
30. Clayton Eshleman, What She Means
Update, 7/1/07: Green reading tips, compiled. Plus, I threw a book exchange party :)
Perhaps the Bookcroosing could be alternative to not buying books. Although, you would need at least one book you are willing to give away.
One book a days sounds a lot. At least over any extended time period. I use to read a lot on my vacations but I also have to time for gardening or sightseeing and such as well.
I think you can get vouchers on amazon.com if you are the first to write a review on a book. See it is a way of making money on reflecting on what you just have read.
Comment by Johan — June 2, 2007 @ 5:46 am
I’m sure you’re not at a loss for reads, but I thought this was a pretty great article…I guess you could say there is a recycled interest in these books. ;)
http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/2007/32390/
Comment by Gift of Green mom — June 2, 2007 @ 2:12 pm