2 books a month

Posted: February 10th, 2010 at 11:43 pm | Tags: books, goals

For the new year, I’m going to aim for reading two books (for leisure) a month, I was inspired by this interview. This designer, who has a day job and everything managed to read a book a week for a year. As a graduate student I have about 160 pages of readings a week, so we’ll see how far I go with my leisure reading. I’m also trying to make something everyday too¹. Point is, I’m being ambitious. It wouldn’t surprise me if I fall short, as I don’t want to flunk out of school, so homework will almost always take precedence².

For January, I only managed to read one book (On Love by Alain de Botton) so I need to make up for it by reading 3 books for Febuary. Here’s the plan:

February³:
Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (fiction)
Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (philosophy)
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino (fiction, translated from Italian)
Persuasive Games by Ian Bogost (non-fiction, have to read Chapter 1 for homework next week)

March:
The Creative Habit by Twyla Thwarp (non-fiction)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung and Aniela Jaffe (non-fiction)

1. does this blog post count? [↩]
2. unless it’s past 11pm, that’s the academic part of my brain goes to sleep [↩]
3. I’m definitely going in over my head for this month [↩]