365 days of reading

Nina Sankovitch has been reading one book every day since October 29, 2008. In just a few days, she will have completed her goal of reading one book per day for a whole year. She has also maintained a blog where she reviews every book she's read, and where you can find out all the other information about her project. She doesn't re-read anything, and only reads one book written by any particular author.

After first discovering this blog, I thought, "I wish I could do that!" The more I though about it, however, the less I thought that was true. Reading an entire book in one day doesn't leave much time for anything else. A person can't work and do this challenge at the same time, that's for sure. There would be little time to do anything but read. On some days, this would be my dream come true. On others, I'd probably rather be out doing other things.

But Nina has four kids, and I'm sure she's made adjustments so that they haven't felt neglected over the past year. I'm also assuming she hasn't completely exiled herself and lost touch with the rest of the world. So, the need to work aside, apparently this is possible without having to give up everything.

I'm thinking that maybe I would like to challenge myself to do something similar, but on a smaller scale. One book a week. One book every ten days. Something that would challenge me, but fit more realistically into my life. Let me finish the book I'm working on now, and then we'll see if I'm up for it.