A literary adventure

Embarking on a little project. Check out the blog and the original post here:  http://26booksinoneyear2011.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/matt-is-getting-started/

Oh hi. So here I am. Alex gave me the password so I guess I’m on this thing too and embarking on the journey. I love reading it’s a passion of mine and I think words can take you so many different places that your imagination just runs wild. Growing up my mom always told us to turn off the TV, we could read instead. I am forever grateful for that rule. Because of that and the countless numbers of books I thus read as a child, I have a dangerous imagination and it can take me anywhere. Fiction or non-fiction has the exact same effect, those words open up a whole new world of possibilities.

The interesting thing is that I have never actually sat down and recorded what I have read so that will make this interesting on my end and that is why I jumped on this blog, because reading is something I am passionate about and so hopefully keeping up with this will be no problem.

Will I probably read more than 26 books over the course of this year? My guess is yes (I’m already almost through my first two), but it will be fun nonetheless.

A few things about me and reading:
1. I have to finish a book once I make it past the first page. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis took me 2 years to read. It was a short book, it put me to sleep with every page I turned and yet I felt incomplete until it was done.
2. I am often reading 2 books at one time. Currently on: naked by David Sedaris and In Defense of Food by Micheal Pollon.
3. I will not be making any sort of list in advance, but I will be keeping track as I go. The books that spark my interest often change and I don’t want to limit myself to 26 when there are still thousands of books I have yet to discover and hundreds yet to be written this year.

On that note, my first 4 books will definitely be naked by David Sedaris, In Defense of Food by Micheal Pollon, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin and This I Belive II edited by Jay Allison & Dan Gediman. I only know this because I currently have all these books in my possession and they are in my to read pile.

Well cheers to a great literary adventure!