Over the last month, I have been able to do something again which I really haven’t had time for over the last four years (even if I did sneak it in, therefore sacrificing study time): read for pleasure. My hour long train ride to and from San Fran daily has given me the time to actually read again. And oh boy am I ever. I’ve read about 4 books over the last 4 weeks. Some heavy, some lighthearted. I went a little crazy at the sale bin at Borders.
Now I’m not going to try to fool myself into thinking I can pose as a book reviewer. I promise you that. But I will be reflecting on what I read and writing about them here. I started this out as one long post but I realized I wouldn’t be able to without producing a massively long and drawn out post. SO, my new plan is that for every book I read, I will write on post about after. I’ll do my best to do this shortly after, or else I’ll have to go back and read that book again. And again. Aaand again.
Here’s a quick one on the first book I read. And it’s quick because this book was a very quick read, but probably the most fun.
The first book I read was a quick read, mainly because it was written in a way that those of my generation can’t seem to get enough of. The name: Twitterature. Yes, you read that correctly. This book is in short, amazing. It is a collection of all the great works of literature, minimized to 40 tweets or less, and each tweet has to be 140 characters or less. So that means I read all the greats in about 5 minutes each. It’s the most entertaining way of figuring out if you want to dive into the unabridged version, which I may very well do, once I’m done reading the 10 other books I bought on the first round. Follow the link here and read about it. http://www.twitterature.us/us/index.htm. It was put together by two freshmen at the University of Chicago. Can you imagine being 19 years old and already having a book published through Penguin Books? Nice!
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