Finance Dave
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I don't have the attention span for novels...so I read magazines....related to my hobbies...cars, woodworking, and personal finance. 10 magazines a month.
I don't have the attention span for novels...
The short stories, especially the really good ones, do that for me. I would remember good ones for quite a while, some even since 16.Also novels can open your mind in ways that non-fiction cannot...
I don´t read non-fiction either. I had enough of that genre when I was a practising lawyer....Well, that is if what had to read then could be called non-fiction
My DW reads a lot of books and reads a lot faster then I do. I admire her for this. Regarding remembering what you've read, I keep an Excel file with one sheet devoted to what I've read and another sheet for new reading ideas. Can't get DW interested in this organization technique. Here's an example of the already-read sheet, note the split so I can see the non-fiction and fiction sections at a glance:...(snip)...
My wife reads a lot of fiction. She reads so many of them and so fast that she forgets what she has read. We would go to the public library shelves where books discarded by the library or donated by the public were sold for $1. She would look at a book cover and wondered if she had read it. No, no, no...
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The short stories, especially the really good ones, do that for me. I would remember good ones for quite a while, some even since 16.
My wife reads a lot of fiction. She reads so many of them and so fast that she forgets what she has read. We would go to the public library shelves where books discarded by the library or donated by the public were sold for $1. She would look at a book cover and wondered if she had read it. No, no, no...
I believe gluttony is bad when applied to books just as with food.
Right. I count no lawyers amongst friends or family, but suspect that there would be plenty of fiction in the testimonies and depositions that you read. I guess that kind of fiction is not too entertaining.
Also novels can open your mind in ways that non-fiction cannot. With non fiction you are always in charge, evaluating, weighing, letting some info in, and keeping some out. Good novels sneak into your heart and change a little bit of you.
And most of us could use some changing.
Ha
Anyway, I told my wife as she stood undecided before the bookshelves full of good-as-new $1 books, "Well, if you don't remember if you have read it, then it is good as new".
Yesterday's cool discovery: Windows Live Photo Gallery can automagically stitch together a panoramic photo of adjacent photos. I tried it out in the basement workshop and it works!
More important news from MA. Two famous authors died yesterday. Erich Segal (Love Story, which I never read), and the man who holds 2nd place (behind Louis L'amour) in the number of volumes in my library, Robert Parker. RIP, both.