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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
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- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:14:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.201517.29883@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> Evelyn C. Leeper,
- ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com writes:
- >Inspired by someone's posting last year of his 1991 reading list, I kept
- >a similar list for me for 1992, and so know that I read 136 books this
- year.
- >The breakdown would be:
- [...]
- >(I have the same excuse someone else had: it would have been more, but
- >I was writing also, in my case, over 100,000 words of reviews,
- >convention reports, and travelogues.)
-
- I *know* I read at least 180 books; those are what I went through my
- shelves and remembered either reading for the first time or re-reading
- this year. Most of this is fiction of one sort or another. What I *don't*
- know what to do about is the huge quantity of technical material (art
- history, history, literary criticism, literary theory, classics) I went
- through for five graduate seminars and thesis research. I skimmed an
- incredible amount of material, including a stack approximately 2 feet
- high of Xeroxed articles, and my database reveals at least 100 books that
- I did something to/with, such as skim, browse, use in a footnote, or some
- such. What to do with those? Count them each as one-half a book?
-
- (When you also consider that I read the NYT every day, and r.a.b., plus
- other papers and magazines, it's probably not immediately obvious when I
- have time to do anything else. Well, cheer up. It's not obvious to me,
- either.)
- --
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- "They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they
- love arguing about them. Some of those arguments go on for millenium
- after millenium. It just seems to keep them young, for some reason,
- arguing about books." -- Julian Barnes
-
- Joann Zimmerman (jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
-