Last year I made a commitment to myself to read one book a week until I was caught up on the *to be read* piles stacked throughout my home/hole. I did really well although some books took more than a week to read. When June came around and the Harry Potter door stop was released my new found reading habits took a dive as I slowly savored the adventures of the wizard boy & friends, knowing it could be a few years before number 6 was published. Upon finishing HP, I chose Focault's Pendulum as my next read so that I could discuss it with the employee who recommended it before he left for college and unfortunately it took awhile to read as it was all over the place and made my head hurt after each chapter, I did finally finish it and discussed briefly with the employee after I smacked him for insisting I read it. It's not that it was bad, but it was too much blah, blah, blah. Having two books suck up my weeks my commitment to read 1 a week was shot to hell. I'm attempting to get back on track again this year having just finished Holes, we'll see.
Sara Nelson did read one book a week and lived to tell the tale in "So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading", I bet she didn't read HPV or Focault's. =P
