I have spent several hours a day during the past week or so cleaning out my home office. Every flat surface has been buried under stacks of papers and cds and especially, books. As I put up three new bookshelves in an attempt to get all of these texts up off of the floor and into some semblance of order I realized that, of the thousands (yeah, I know. But, really.) of books in my house, there are hundreds that I haven't read, for what ever reason. Some have been gifts, other have been bargains I couldn't pass up, still others ones I bought because I thought that, as a well-read person, I should have read whichever particular book (Anna Karenina: party of one?), and by-God, I was going to read it now. But then, I didn't.
In addition to working toward a more orderly writing space, I have lately been thinking about spending less money, resucing my consumption, and so forth. In this spirit, an idea occured to me: I would spend the next year reading books I already own, but have yet to read AND I would buy no new books!
So welcome to this blog, and to my little experiment. As I read new books, I will post brief annotations or reviews of them. These reviews will be highly personal, ideocyncratic, biased and occasionally completely illogical. I hope that you enjoy following along.
Happy reading, and Happy New Year.
~Doug Van Gundy
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