http://www.readallday.org/
And she finished her first year and has started a second. These are not easy books either. Could you read a book a day plus write a literate review of it? In my earlier days, when I was home with two kids, I read three or four books a week. They were split about evenly between so-called literary novels or non-fiction and so-called crime fiction. On the whole, I read better stuff then than now. I reviewed them with a word or two-good, so-so, lousy. Nothing like the reviews on this site.
Take a look at her list and imagine reading books like this every day. You must have to build up the muscle. I didn't peruse her site long enough to find out how she has the time for this. And this is a good example of why I don't read a book a day and why I don't write 1000 words.
Could you read a book a day even if you had all day to do it?
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I read a lot, but I don't think I could sustain my interest in one every day. I go through periods where I can read a lot and times when it might take me a week to read one.
I think a lot of it has to do one's mood and things going on in their lives.
As much as I like to read, there are other things I'm fond of as well that take up my time.
I do remember one period where, over a three month stretch, I averaged more than one a day. But they were medium length crime novels and I was burnt out for a while after that.
There are things in life other than reading. I know that must seem rather shocking. I allow "spare time" for reading because I really do have other commitments. Of course, I am a relatively slow reader, and I simply cannot relate to those who say they can read a book (or more) each day. There is the infamous Harriet Clausen (if I correctly recall the name), the woman who posts thousands of reviews and boasts of reading 2, 3, or 4 books each day. I neither understand it nor believe it. As for me, reading will always remain a pleasure--and who can possibly tolerate unlimited pleasure? One or two books a week is my maximum. Beyond once or twice a week, I am worn out from too much pleasure. :-]
Couldn't & wouldn't if I could. I love reading but there are other wonderful things - and PEOPLE - in life. Not to mention some not so wonderful things that have to be handled.
I am a slow and distracted reader, too. And often, I don't want to finish it in one day. If I like it, I want it to last. If I don't...
I may have never finished a book in a day except when I used to read Agatha Christie at the beach in my youth.
I spent the summer after graduating from High School mostly reading. I didn't have a summer job, and would sleep most of the day and read all of the night. I went though a short novel in one blast, but longer ones would take a couple of days.
I think that if I tried that now, I would just feel like a slug. That said the last 2 books I read took 2 days each. Of those four days I worked 8 hour work shifts on three of them.
There just isn't enough time--and even if there was, I think I would find some other things that I wanted/had to get done. I love to read, and I try to arrange my day so that I usually have some reading time, but I like to think of reading as a pasttime, a pleasure, something enjoyable that doesn't have to be done (unlike laundry, vacuuming, groceries, etc.). If I had to read a book a day, it would become a chore very quickly and no longer the enjoyable respite that it is.
That being said, I have occasionally read a book in a day; but usually, even smaller length novellas, take me at least a day-and-a-half.
There have been books I've read in a day - short ones.
But the only times I've spent a whole day reading has been when I've not been well and then I couldn't manage all day - falling asleep etc.
Much as I love reading I don't fancy spending all day reading!
I spent a lot of days just reading in my life, but not very often lately. I could certainly enjoy a day or two like that now, but I'd find it hard to continue it day in and day out.
I think I could, and I have done it in periods. Not thick volumes, obviously, but I can read 1-2 Agatha Christie length novels in a day (my three children read even faster than than).
In the spring I read and reviewed up to four books some weeks (and I have work + family, but not small children).
For a while I was almost absorbed in reading and blogging, but fortunately another blogger told me about an online writing course so now I read 1-2 books a week, and manage to write at least a little bit.
when I was in high school + college, yeah, I often read a book day. Somehow I was a fast reader then, now I'm a slow reader, maybe a more careful reader, and about 100 pages in one day is about my limit.
I feel like a slug when I don't read enough, Eric. Interesting.
Reading assigned books is a chore-one for my book group often--even ones I suggested.
Yes, in college, I would often read all day--but never the assigned texts. Maybe the period between 16-23 is the optimum age for intense reading. Before life intervenes. And I also read much faster then. The eyes change.
I think that if I read that much, it would take the quality out of it. To truly enjoy a book, you need to have time to digest it, I think.
For me, too, Fleur. But she seems to have gotten a lot out of it. Perhaps we all have our own way of reading and absorbing and hers is speeded- up.
I actually try to read a book a day. Some days I'm successful, other days not. Of course, size is a factor: I can't finish an 800 page Trollope door stop in less than three days. I can't think of too many things I'd rather do than read a good book.
How can you teach seven courses and read a book a day? You must not sleep.
I read one of the reviews, and I think I know how she's able to read a book a day and write a review of it: superficially and on speed.p
Patti says: "How can you teach seven courses and read a book a day?"
I say: "Who on earth teaches seven courses? What kind of Dantean circle of hell did that teacher fall into while traveling along life's pathway? Seven courses? C'mon! (Note: I ask this as someone who teaches at a university and--as far as I know--I have never encountered anyone (even the most enslaved adjuncts) who teaches seven courses during a semester. I won't even ask about reading a book a day on top of that schedule. So, out with it. What are the facts? The mystery is too, too weird. Seven courses!
WOW! I'm speechless!
Wow. I read every day, but it takes me anywhere from 3 days to a week, or more for fatter books, to finish a single one.
Patti - George is a VERY fast reader.
My goal is always to red 104 books per year. I rarely achieve it, but I think it's a worthy goal. I love reading and since I retired I devote a significant amount of time to it, time I used to give to the salt mines. Now, that's an improvement!
I think George is Superman, reading as much as he does and listening to all that music and seeing movies. He never sleeps.
My goal right now is to read two books a week. The most I can hope for and similar to Rick.
Speechless doesn't begin to cover it. Those are damned hard books.
Actually, I teach eight courses (although three of them are online courses). As I may have mentioned, I don't watch much TV, I don't own a cell phone, I don't Twitter, and don't FACEBOOK so I have plenty of time for reading. And I also manage to snooze eight to ten hours a night thanks to my trusty CPAP machine.
There's no way I could read a book a day consistently Patti. I'm impressed by the fact that she seems to write at length after each. But does she?
Check this one which is meant to be thoughts about Agatha Christie's MURDER ON THE CALAIS COACH - but really isn't - http://www.readallday.org/january19.html
I have more "free" time now than at any time in the past and I also read fewer books than when I had no time at all. No I could not, would not read a book a day.
I guess it's more little essays than
reviews perhaps. I need to look at more of them.
Would not, could not, should not in my case. And the same is true for me. Compared to even a year ago, I have more time and yet spend it here rather than there.
I don't watch too much TV and never talk on the phone or twitter and facebook amounts to five minutes a day at most. And still....
I read a lot of magazines. Maybe that's gotta go.
When I was in college I read about 600 pages a week - mostly science fiction anthologies. Now I go through periods where I read very little, followed by times when I may read three or four books over a weekend.
I don't read a fast as I once did. For my 40th birtday last year I got a pair of reading glasses, but I still misread words fairly often and have to go back. Sometimes it improves the book!
I have read books in a day, particularly during bouts of temporary disability. But day in, day out...well, I've been working a hell of a lot of hours a day, day in, day out, for a lot of years, now, and I don't usually have the energy to read too much after the twelve-fourteen hour work day. I do read at least some of the prodigious amount of magazines that I purchase (why give that up, Patti? Just read the right magazines...the EQMMs, the BOULEVARDs, the ALL HALLOWSes...), but part of the reason that I participate in "Forgotten" Books is that it gets me to at least look again at books I've read, or reread them, or dig into those I've been meaning to read...
My brother's wedding occasioned the first day of vacation I've taken in six years. I'm working today. It's more than crazy.
wv: rawness (no kidding. of nerve?)
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