Quote of the Week from:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
American Physician, Professor, Lecturer, and Author (1809-1894)
Quote of the Week from:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
American Physician, Professor, Lecturer, and Author (1809-1894)
College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
M: writings, ’67-’72. —
By: Cage, John. | Year of publication:: [1973] | Publisher:: Wesleyan University Press,
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM1749821&R=1749821
Wow – great to know that someone so eloquently voiced what I think and it’s Wendell Holmes no less. I had cancer eight years ago and now I’m in a race to read all the good books on the planet. I wish there were someone who could weed out the bad ones and just give me the ones they know I’ll love.
My hold list is always maxed out. I have at least two books out simultaneously in case one is a dud. Life’s too short to reread books or persevere with bad ones.
Well said indeed! I don’t have cancer but already feel like “the victim” as time is running out…
I can’t believe it – it’s SO good to know that I’m not the only one who feels this way!
My best strategy for handling this dilemma is to have made a decision to NOT continue reading a book I do not like. My rule of thumb is to give a book 1/3 of the total pages to grab me. If at that point I’m not liking it, I stop reading and return it to the library to allow me to move onto the next book on my “to-be-read” list, which currently stands at 372 book [but grows constantly].
For another perspective check out super-librarian ( as in she has her own action figure ) Nancy Pearl’s article: “Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 for Dropping a Bad Book”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/nancy-pearls-rule-of-50-for-dropping-a-bad-book/article1894727/
5 thoughts on “What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?”
College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
M: writings, ’67-’72. —
By: Cage, John. | Year of publication:: [1973] | Publisher:: Wesleyan University Press,
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM1749821&R=1749821
Wow – great to know that someone so eloquently voiced what I think and it’s Wendell Holmes no less. I had cancer eight years ago and now I’m in a race to read all the good books on the planet. I wish there were someone who could weed out the bad ones and just give me the ones they know I’ll love.
My hold list is always maxed out. I have at least two books out simultaneously in case one is a dud. Life’s too short to reread books or persevere with bad ones.
Well said indeed! I don’t have cancer but already feel like “the victim” as time is running out…
I can’t believe it – it’s SO good to know that I’m not the only one who feels this way!
My best strategy for handling this dilemma is to have made a decision to NOT continue reading a book I do not like. My rule of thumb is to give a book 1/3 of the total pages to grab me. If at that point I’m not liking it, I stop reading and return it to the library to allow me to move onto the next book on my “to-be-read” list, which currently stands at 372 book [but grows constantly].
For another perspective check out super-librarian ( as in she has her own action figure ) Nancy Pearl’s article: “Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 for Dropping a Bad Book”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/nancy-pearls-rule-of-50-for-dropping-a-bad-book/article1894727/