(February 13, 2015 at 10:41 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(February 13, 2015 at 1:27 am)TRJF Wrote: I am trying very hard to average one book a week this year. If we call yesterday the end of week 6, I'm already 2 behind :-( but, I didn't do much reading in early January; I'm confident I can catch up.
I didn't start reading for pleasure until about my sophomore year in college. Up until then, I could count on one hand the books I read that weren't assigned in school. Still, I doubt there's been a year in which I've read more than 15 books.
That's going to change.
Maybe you could try to read some shorter books, like Old Man and the Sea or Notes From Underground.
With that in mind, aside from Voltaire's Candide which I already mentioned, one might want to read Night by Elie Wiesel. A truly great book, but not a happy fun time book.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
