I’ve got to start reading non-technical documents again. It has been years (about ten I think) since I’ve actually sat down on a regular basis to read anything of measure.
I keep up with one magazine (Wired), but that’s the only one I subscribe to physically. I used to gobble down books over a weekend and be able to talk about them, but the last one I really got into was Angels & Demons and Deception Point (both by Dan Brown). So I’ve decided that I’m going to read again. Starting with some books to help me write good (<– see… I need all the help I can get).
Here’s the books I’m going to start out with (some of them are droolers, I know):
- Writing Great Essays by Molly McClain and Jacqueline D. Roth
- Handbook of Magazine Article Writing (For the idea/resource gathering and organization of thoughts)
- Blog Blazers by Stephanie Grenier (on loan from a friend)
- Lord of the Flies (again)
- Hatchet (again)
- Read some more of the 15 books that I own and are in storage
I’m open to suggestions for relaxing and instructional reading, but most of the self-help books have always bored me to tears or sleep.
As usual I will continue to read the websites that I am subscribed to (I’ll be purging some high-post rate/low quality ones), but I’m going to start branching out a bit into some fictional areas and expand my subscription of web comics a little further.