Book A Week in 2010 Project

I have been so inspired by Julien Smith and his blog post, How To Read a Book a Week in 2010 that I decided to take  up the challenge. I always have a stack of books that I never get through and this looked like the perfect way to make some serious headway. It’s part because of the challenge of it and part because when I focus on how much I will learn and grow from all that reading, I get pretty excited. Julien also provides some excellent tips on making it happen for yourself.

I have started a new page on the site here where you can keep track of how I am doing. I will list the current book being read and all the past books. Feel free to jump in and join the fun! I would love to hear from you if you do. I am also going to try to post short reviews of all the books as well. Being a dad, I am trying to encourage my 1o year old Virginia to join me. She will be reading a book every two weeks and if she is successful we may record a podcast together to talk about our books and what we enjoyed about them.

I am going to try to mix up the books as best possible. Some business titles, some fiction, some non-fiction that is not business related. If you have anything to suggest, please let me know in the comments and I’ll consider it.

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Commitment to Reading

I have a history of buying books and not reading them. Or starting them and not finishing. I love books and I love book shopping, especially shopping at an actaual book store. But lately, I love buying books more than reading them.

As part of a general improvement of self I have made a new commitment to reading. I want to read everyday and get through several books a month. I’m not putting a hard and fast goal on it. Already in the past few months I have read more books than I have all of last year, so I’m off to a great start. I am mixing it up, including fiction, and non-fictions. Business books and motivation/self improvement books. I’ll probably be reading more than one thing at a time.

Currently I am reading 13 Bullets by David Wellington. It is a vampire story with lots and lots of violence as Scott Sigler would say. I’m enjoying it and would highly recomment it.