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My Book Obsession
Late last year, I read an article on the Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal written by former White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove.
It was fascinating and presented an automatic challenge to me. Rove and then-President Bush had an ongoing, annual wager to see if they both could read one book a week in any one year.
Now, love them or revile them, think about this for a minute. The Leader of The Free World and His Pretty Doggone Important Chief of Staff taking time during their busy (and how!) weeks to read. I love it! Good for them!
So I immediately pledged that I would give it a try too. So far in '09 I'm on schedule. One thing I've noticed about this effort is that no matter how much I love to read (and y'all know that such has always been a very important and treasured thing to me), to accomplish this goal, I have to stay after it constantly and plan reading time. And by doing so, I am re-discovering and reinforcing the grand benefits of Organization and Time Management.
My planned reading is making me a Better Lawyer!
(Hint: ALWAYS Have a Book with you-You never know when you can grab a few minutes.)
I'll keep you posted on my progress but here's where I am so far:
Vernon-Books Read 2009 (Goal: One Per week)
- 1) US Army-Marine Corps COUNTERINSURGENCY FIELD MANUAL, 389 pages, 2007
- 2) David Sedaris, BARRELL FEVER, 196 pages, 1994
- 3) Darby Conley, GET FUZZY Series, GROOVITUDE, 255 pages, 2002
- 4) Kingsley Amis, LUCKY JIM, 251 pages, 1953
- 5) Alec Greven, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS, 46 pages, 2008
- 6) James S. Corum, FIGHTING THE WAR ON TERROR, 267 pages, 2007
- 7) Crowley & Lodge, YOUNGER NEXT YEAR, 321`pages, 2004
- 8) Jennet Conant, THE IRREGULARS, 350 pages, 2008
- 9) Darby Conley, GET FUZZY Series, BIG BOOK OF FUN, 252 pages, 2004
- 10) David Crook, The Wall Street Journal's COMPLETE HOMEOWNER'S GUIDEBOOK, 246 pages, 2008
- 11) C.S. Lewis, MERE CHRISTIANITY, 175 pages, 1943
- 12) Dan Ariely, PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, 247 pages, 2008
- 13) A & B Pease, BODY LANGUAGE, 379 pages, 2004
- 14) Carlos d'Este, WARLORD, 700 pages, 2008
- 15) Richard Price, LUSH LIFE, 455 pages, 2008
- 16) Rob Christensen, THE PARADOX OF TAR HEEL POLITICS, 316 pages, 2008
- 17) Vicki Myron, DEWEY, 277 pages, 2008
- 18) Henry Alford, HOW TO LIVE, 262 pages, 2009
- 19) Marjane Satrapi, PERSEPOLIS, 153 pages, 2003
- 20) Randy Pausch, THE LAST LECTURE, 206 Pages, 2008
- 21) Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD, 241 Pages, 2006
I am currently (as we go into the week of April 26th) working on three new books and it goes without saying that my reading is not just this-every day I read the Charleston Post & Courier, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times-they're tossed at the door-and I review many other newspapers on line along with reading magazines, emails, the world wide web and the scope of the internet, legal journals, case files, reports, medical and legal texts and cases, cases, cases.
(OK, I even read Facebook too...)
My suggestion to you-
Try It, You'll Like It!
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