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Published November 21, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Tracking reads

dickensHad very nice lunch out with Sam and while we were wandering, managed to bungle a few op-shops. I naturally found myself some books. The Christmas Books-Volume Two by Charles Dickens (includes: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man) and a very nice new-looking copy of The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester.

As I we progress into the ever nearing holiday season I intend to get the reading count up. I am currently well engrossed in Margret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin, and I’m afraid will probably jump at anything Atwood that comes my way, it’s beautiful, beautiful stuff. Amongst the fiction, I have to spare some space for the ever backlogged Coffee House Theology and the numerous others that I must read.

For the last few years I have been tracking what I read on All Consuming. I’m not sure why I keep using it, because it is aesthetically appalling, but does seem to do the trick. Is there anything else out there – nicer but just as functional?

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Published January 30, 2008 by Rebecca Matheson

Smarty pants

As I seem to be on a posting spree today, let me go one more.

There is an interesting post here about How to read books above your level.

I am unsure if I agree 100% with what the guy is saying, but I do know that the introduction is what propelled me through Dorian Gray (even if it isn’t that difficult) and it was worth every minute. I came out throughly depressed, but slightly awed, so it all balances out.

My simple advice is to read those more difficult books when you’ve got enough time on your hands to not be thinking about other things. Pretty darn obvious.

For example: Do not try and read a Dostoevsky when you are organising a wedding. It just doesn’t work.

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