Saturday, September 03, 2011

Project 3 : 25 books in 52 weeks

As I think I've mentioned one of the reason why I'm doing this blog is to try to stop the powerful force of my own procrastination. One of the things I've procrastinated the most about is reading, and while I mean the reading I need to do for my PhD to some extent, the reading I've really been missing out on is reading for pleasure.

So I'm starting a project to try to increase the amount of reading I get done. Over the next 52 weeks, I'd like to read 25 books. Hopefully it will take less that 52 weeks as this isn't a very ambitious goal, but I want to give myself a chance.

I've started by taking a look at the huge pile of books I have sitting around that I haven't read yet, and a few that I've been thinking of reading again. I've listed these books out below. I don't guarantee that these will actually be the 25 books I read, but at the moment they're what I'm planning to read.

Title Author Notes
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
Agent of Change Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
The Atrocity Archives Charles Stross
Camelot 30K Robert L. Forward Re-Read
The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh C.J. Cherryh
The Complaints Ian Rankin
Cryoburn Lois McMaster Bujold
The Dragon Book
Essex County Jeff Lemire Canada Reads
The Fionavar Tapestry Guy Gavriel Kay 2nd Try
Fluke Christopher Moore
Fortress in the Eye of Time C.J. Cherryh
Fool Christopher Moore
Good to Great Jim Collins Re-read
Local Custom Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Matter Iain M. Banks Hopefully no extracted eye balls or unnecessary surgery
New Sprint Robert Jordan
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009
Regenesis C. J. Cherryh
Spirit Gate Kate Elliott
The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks
This Alien Shore C. S. Friedman Re-Read
Unless Carol Shields Canada Reads
Will Grayson, Will Grayson John Green & David Levithan
The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson


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