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Goal for June: Read a book a day. Follow my reading list here.

First step to greening your reading: Don’t buy books, unless you plan to read or reference them again. Instead, head over to your local library.

Santa Monica’s main library’s especially nice. Free wifi. Lots of tables, all with outlets to plug your laptop into. Bookmark Cafe in the open courtyard with organic coffee and decent food. Organized reading programs and prizes for green lit. All in a LEED-certified building, no less.

A downside to the library’s popularity: The wifi’s gotten really slow. I had to develop a new strategy: Reply to one email, then read a couple pages while it sends.

This worked excellently with Play it As It Lays and its quick, 1-2 page sections — I both finished the book and cleared out my inbox. It worked less well today, with Helene Cixous’ Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing:

Reading is a wonderful metaphor for all kinds of joy that are called vicious.

But I finished it tonight — can’t go out because I have to be up bright and early for LA Works Day tomorrow –

Reading, I found out that the French have the expression “avoir les doigts verts” (to have green fingers). Their gardeners get at least two green digits, versus ours who only get one lonely green thumb –

Book read: Helene Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

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