{"id":644,"date":"2020-12-15T12:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T01:59:42","slug":"reading-books-as-daily-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/reading-books-as-daily-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading books as daily habit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-peertube wp-block-embed-peertube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/peertube.co.uk\/videos\/watch\/db093e58-7ff1-4aef-bc92-7f44c84e3d73\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, dissatisfied with social media, I became more serious about reading books, and have worked to make a daily habit of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Practical books have always seemed like direct upgrades to the process that is my life, so I&#8217;ve always started there. As one book leads to another, however, my path has included several works of fiction by London, Hemingway, Asimov, my old pal Stephen King, David Foster Wallace, in which I&#8217;ve been figuring out how stories are told, the way language can be used, worlds created. Anything seems possible in fiction. The well is very deep. And yeah, what can be more valuable for connecting in these distanced times than developing our skills as storytellers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between books and social media\/news, it&#8217;s no contest. 27 books this year have expanded my knowledge, potential and experience more than I could have imagined. The frothiness of life. Deliberate practice. Quests for immortality. Determination. Pleasure. Killing scary monsters. I&#8217;m a little concerned that the low-hanging fruit has been harvested, some titles like Peak and Infinite Jest were that good, but my prospects are solid. Hell, I haven&#8217;t read Ulysses yet and only just got a Pynchon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, I developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1vX322w_00qRrlpWsp_bSoB3fvfXmFN97LeKuUklqfBw\/edit#gid=0\">reading log spreadsheet<\/a> that can track pages read\/day for up to 4 books at a time and, I have a question for those who have been reading books for a long time. How do you keep it fresh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, dissatisfied with social media, I became more serious about reading books, and have worked to make a daily habit of it.\u00a0 Practical books have always seemed like direct upgrades to the process that is my life, so I&#8217;ve always started there. As one book leads to another, however, my path has included several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}