I didn't accomplish much today. I read and finished Proxima by Stephen Baxter. That was about 90 pages. I wrote a review of the book and put it on my other blog.
What's so special about Proxima? It was my first fiction Ebook. It took six months to read. I started it in April 2016. I finished it tonight. I've only been reading four chapters a week. I've spent my time assaulting my slush pile of books by reading four books a week.
Today was Proxima.
At this rate, I'll never get my Ebooks read in a reasonable amount of time. I have lots of Ebook. I probably have about 20 to read. I have another 20 hard copies of speculative fiction on my book shelves. Followed by another 20 hard backs concerning military history, The only way I'll ever get through my slush pile is to up the reading I do when I peruse a book.
This is what a "typical" week of reading might look like:
Sunday:
50 pages of fiction hardback A
Monday:
50 pages of fiction Ebook A
Tuesday:
50 pages of fiction hardback A
Wednesday:
No reading.
Thursday:
50 pages of nonfiction Ebook B
Friday:
100 pages of fiction hardback B
Saturday:
100 pages of fiction hardback B
This assumes I'm not wasting my time watching sports. Television is a dangerous game, my friend. And a real time vampire, too. Hopefully, I'll read my Ebooks at a faster rate than one every six months!
