1mmodine
I've had the idea in the past to try to read 100 books at once, sort of. So I'm going to start with 13 in the my Currently Reading and To Read collections and see if I can do it or if I get bored with it.
Methodology:
Day 1: Take two books and read to the nearest chapter stop around page 50.
Day 2: Book #3 read to the nearest chapter stop around page 50. Read book #1 or #2, whichever is lower page number, to the nearest chapter stop around page 100.
Day 3–infinity: Read new book to page 50 and then furthest behind to next 50-page mark, etc.
#1 Citadel started 11/30, on p 352
#2 The Music of the Spheres started 12/2, on p 98
#3 A Plain Account of Christian Spirituality started 12/2, on p 53
#4 Daniel: A New Translation with a commentary anthologized, started 12/3, on p 58
#5 God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God, started 12/3, on p 53
#6 The Winter Ghosts started 12/4, on p 50
#7 The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, started 12/5
To Read (may not be chosen in this order)
#8 Have His Carcase
#9 Brideshead Revisted
#10 The Burning Chambers
#11 Degrees of Inequality
#12 The Seven Storey Mountain
#13 The Prophets
Methodology:
Day 1: Take two books and read to the nearest chapter stop around page 50.
Day 2: Book #3 read to the nearest chapter stop around page 50. Read book #1 or #2, whichever is lower page number, to the nearest chapter stop around page 100.
Day 3–infinity: Read new book to page 50 and then furthest behind to next 50-page mark, etc.
#1 Citadel started 11/30, on p 352
#2 The Music of the Spheres started 12/2, on p 98
#3 A Plain Account of Christian Spirituality started 12/2, on p 53
#4 Daniel: A New Translation with a commentary anthologized, started 12/3, on p 58
#5 God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God, started 12/3, on p 53
#6 The Winter Ghosts started 12/4, on p 50
#7 The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary, started 12/5
To Read (may not be chosen in this order)
#8 Have His Carcase
#9 Brideshead Revisted
#10 The Burning Chambers
#11 Degrees of Inequality
#12 The Seven Storey Mountain
#13 The Prophets
3mmodine
On Club Read: long time listener, first time caller
On the challenge: I realized a flaw. If I only read from two books then I will always only read yesterday's new one. I don't think this is going to work unless I get a new one, then read from the two furthest back.
Check that: I don't think it's going to work at all. :-)
On the challenge: I realized a flaw. If I only read from two books then I will always only read yesterday's new one. I don't think this is going to work unless I get a new one, then read from the two furthest back.
Check that: I don't think it's going to work at all. :-)
4dchaikin
It’s an interesting challenge. But you might want to avoid long form fiction. Short stories will work great. And poetry
5mmodine
Close to abandoning project after only a week. 😀🤨🙃
I have been away from home and office for several days and can’t lug 13 physical books around.
I have been away from home and office for several days and can’t lug 13 physical books around.
6labfs39
>5 mmodine: and can’t lug 13 physical books around
Despite my abiding love of books, two years ago I acquired an e-reader, and among other things, it is nice when I need to have multiple books with me.
Despite my abiding love of books, two years ago I acquired an e-reader, and among other things, it is nice when I need to have multiple books with me.
7mmodine
Yes, indeed. I added nonphysical books to my repertoire years ago, but these happen to be all physical.
