Dear Readers,
It has crossed my mind that I'm slowly becoming illiterate. I used to read voraciously as a child, then as a college student (it helped, conveniently, that I was an English literature major (oh, in addition to Economics, yes, I wasn't entirely useless in planning for my future)). And now? Well, I barely read, and when I do read, it's about what's happening in New York City so that I can feed my need to be a part of this vibrant! thriving! city. Or it's huffingtonpost.com, or slate.com, or althouse.blogspot.com, or five international law blogs, or the nytimes.com, and occassionally, it's newyorker.com, or vanityfair.com, or the guardian.co.uk, or pslawnet.org (so I can look up non-profit jobs), or un.org/en/employment (so that I can look up UN jobs), or google searches for "international law jobs" so that I can look up international law jobs, whatever the institution might be. I need to read books.
Please hold me accountable if I don't read at least, hmmm, 1 book a month?
(Yes, I'm setting my standards low.)
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You don't read Happiness Project anymore? :( She made, or is making it, into a book or part of a book or something, so it could be construed as a book. Ne?
I feel the same way. I used to read all the time. Now it's just vacations. And I don't take enough vacations.
But that's the way of the world nowadays. To be "with it," you really have to read so much more, because there's so much more available now. Reading the NYTimes is no longer enough. You'd be way behind if you didn't read blogs now and again.
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