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	i used to read one book at a time. i used to read that book in a very regimented manner, like fifteen or twenty five pages a day, depending on how simple or dense the writing. i used to set a schedule and track my progress making it so i knew when i should be done with the book and if i completed the book as expected. sometimes i finished on time, and other times, i never finished at all. the never finishing at all business bothered me. like a lot. i found that a slow moving or not right for this moment book could stall my reading, all my reading. i knew changing the book might clear the block but consequences loomed. this is the ocd side of me. while this quirk sometimes debilitated me, other times, lots of times, my quirk helped me over many of life's saw horses. i needed this to be one of those times. so, i made a small tweak to my reading routine (somewhere along this journey, i stumbled upon the bionic power of small properly-placed tweaks). instead of focusing on one book, i now read four - six books at a time. and instead of reading in a genre rotation like i once did (e.g. fiction, history, literature, non-fiction, psychology, fluff, repeat), i read all genres at once. and instead of reading for a set amount of pages per day, i read for a set amount of time, thirty minutes. when the reading window comes up, i set the timer, pick one of the books from the currently being read stack, open to the bookmarked page and collapse into another person's world and experience. now when i stall, i stall for bigger, more meaty causes, the sort of things one should set their book down for. not just because the lead character in the book blows or the author and i aren't jiving at the minute. this i can live with.			Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein Wherever You Go There You Are Jon Kabat-Zinn Bleak House Charles Dickens Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert Endurance: Shackletons' Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing Mindset Carolyn Dweck
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		Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner 06.2007 i received one of those email chain letters the other day that contained this dissertation on how great american society was in the 1950's (at least this one focused on that date) and how jacked up today's society is by comparison. you know, the whole to hell in a hand-basket kinda stuff; children minded their parents, addressed elders as sir, loved their country, held the door for ladies, believed in an honest days work, appreciated what they had, respected family values and on and on and on. while i agree with some if not many of their points i'm commonly compelled to respond to the individual who sent it with my own list. mine would be equally simple but list things like; racial lynchings, slumlords, child labor, american indian extermination, slavery, unchecked sexual harassment and on and on and on. instead i think i could recommend this book and others like it. it would be a cleaner, less confrontational way to approach the conversation. i'm ever astounded reading literature discussing our younger america. knowing that these things happened in this society on this soil by our distant relations really disturbs me. and i don't know if i'm more comforted by the fact that these social ills are no longer so prevalent or more plagued by the fact that it was ever this way to begin with. link to this review

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