the year in books

[theatokos]

Every time my birthday rolls around I think how I'd like to record the reading I do. It's something that I'd like to do regularly, to see the patterns and flow of what I consume. I think I even tried to do this last year. Lately I seem to read periodicals the most - Bitch is always rad cover to cover, The Economist can eat up an entire Sunday if I'm not busy or it can last most of a busy week. I also read yoga and cooking magazines and other feminist rags.

I have been using my local library since I moved to my place nearly a year ago. I am currently working slowly through Kevin Starr's California: A History. I also just finished The Tree of Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar. I look around my apartment. My partner and I have hundreds of books. We still have three unpacked boxes of books too! One serves as our coffee table and two are supporting a large planter. I wonder what books are in those boxes. I would say that at least a third of the books in this apartment I haven't read. So my goal this birthday year is to read only books from my house. No checking new stuff out from the library. No buying anything, new or used. No borrowing. I will work my way through my bookshelves.

I start with A Soprano on Her Head by Eloise Ristad. A book I read while studying voice in college. I keep starting this book. I don't remember getting much out it then, but I'm in a different place now.

Comments

[voidoidandroid.livejournal.com]

I love bitch. Love love. I don't often find a magazine I can read front to back.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Amen. Can I get a hallelujah?!

[nixietube.livejournal.com]

I just read The Marian Conspiracy and thought of you.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Is this a novel? Or non-fiction? I have to go look it up on Amazon right now. What did you think of it? Hmmm... just read the review on Amazon. Doesn't look so accurate. Do you like conspiracy theories?

[nixietube.livejournal.com]

It's written as if it's non-fiction, but he makes giant leaps of logic which are questionable. I don't know enough history to assess its accuracy, but it was a fun book to read. It was sort of like a detective novel for anthropologists and historians.

Conspiracy theories usually bore me, but this book wasn't too focused on conspiracy. It was more focused on trying to justify those giant leaps of logic. Anyways, I enjoyed it.