from 7th grade to the end of high school i really didn't enjoy reading because we had to analyze the hell out of every book we read. huck finn, great gatsby, scarlet letter, night...usually i didn't really get the deeper meaning and used cliff's notes a lot to do my papers. i don't like to analyze books. i don't really care what the deeper meaning is, or the metaphors. i enjoy a good story. i also enjoy learning about random things and reading cookbooks. ever since college ended i've been a library fanatic. i'll spend hours in there browsing the bookshelves and looking for interesting things to read. right now i've got a dozen books on building green and/or small houses. i'm really interested in housing design, especially environmentally friendly houses. i tend to not read those all the way through though, they are more a reference than anything. i just haven't had time to read a novel with school in the way.
so i decided since i'm not in school i want to read. my goal is 50 books this year. of course i will have one class next term and one during summer. then i start up full time again. but i think i can do it. i spent quite a bit of time looking up popular and classic books to read and came up with a list of 50. it is not all-inclusive at all and will probably change as the year goes on but i think it's a good list. i later found a nice list at the library of 100 fiction classics, 21 were on my list and i read 9 others. the thing about reading is you can read constantly and never read everything out there.
