Comments on: Reader’s Block http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Doug http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-186706 Doug Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:32:19 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/#comment-186706 About the only guilt left about things I 'should' be reading is the amount of time something has spent on my shelves unread, and even that is most strongly related to the number of times I have moved house with it. I think the current record-holder is a reader's advanced copy of a novel from 1991, which means seven moves, presuming that it did not come along for the shorter stints in Budapest and Warsaw. I hope it's a good book, for having been lugged around so much. About the only guilt left about things I ‘should’ be reading is the amount of time something has spent on my shelves unread, and even that is most strongly related to the number of times I have moved house with it. I think the current record-holder is a reader’s advanced copy of a novel from 1991, which means seven moves, presuming that it did not come along for the shorter stints in Budapest and Warsaw. I hope it’s a good book, for having been lugged around so much.

]]> By: Richard Vagge http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-186703 Richard Vagge Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:35:55 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/#comment-186703 Shouldn't this list of books also contain its eponymous book. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/marksond/readersb.htm A great read. Shouldn’t this list of books also contain its eponymous book.

http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/marksond/readersb.htm

A great read.

]]> By: Tim http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-186700 Tim Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:56:34 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/#comment-186700 I've been doing this at librarything.com for a few months now, and it has been interesting to see the evolving tag count. As I suspected, murder mysteries are on pace to be the number one category. Hopefully just seeing that will be enough to shame me into making a better effort on the philosophy and science stuff, which I enjoy once I get into it, but is so much harder to start. I’ve been doing this at librarything.com for a few months now, and it has been interesting to see the evolving tag count. As I suspected, murder mysteries are on pace to be the number one category. Hopefully just seeing that will be enough to shame me into making a better effort on the philosophy and science stuff, which I enjoy once I get into it, but is so much harder to start.

]]> By: thistle http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-186697 thistle Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:15:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/#comment-186697 UCD = University College Dublin. UCD = University College Dublin.

]]> By: tom s. http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-186676 tom s. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:11:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/#comment-186676 Certainly do list them here - good ideas for my own reading. But do you also add them to <a href="http://www.librarything.com" rel="nofollow">librarything</a>? It's a good way of keeping a virtual shelf to run a finger along. Certainly do list them here – good ideas for my own reading. But do you also add them to librarything? It’s a good way of keeping a virtual shelf to run a finger along.

]]> By: Doug http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/comment-page-1/#comment-186674 Doug Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:09:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/11/readers-block/#comment-186674 Will there be a list of lists you're not allowed to make? Borges would like that one better, I suspect. Also suspect that UCD, above, is somehow not University of California, Davis, despite said state's known relationship to the center of the universe. I do something like this list already (though not online), but only with books finished and then only title and author. The listing does provide a little extra incentive to finish, but not much more than living in a non-English-speaking country already does. There's not much that I buy here (libraries being uncooperatively almost all in that other language) that I don't have a pretty sure sense of finishing. At least eventually. But looking back is fun, and yields the occasional counterintuitive finding. Will there be a list of lists you’re not allowed to make? Borges would like that one better, I suspect.

Also suspect that UCD, above, is somehow not University of California, Davis, despite said state’s known relationship to the center of the universe.

I do something like this list already (though not online), but only with books finished and then only title and author. The listing does provide a little extra incentive to finish, but not much more than living in a non-English-speaking country already does. There’s not much that I buy here (libraries being uncooperatively almost all in that other language) that I don’t have a pretty sure sense of finishing. At least eventually.

But looking back is fun, and yields the occasional counterintuitive finding.

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