I started reading again shortly before I got the new gig. In theory I could have devoured the library at Alexandria during my unemployment, but I didn't have it in me. Now I'm trying to work out how to balance my week. But I need to put books back in.

I wish interlibrary loan could work like Netflix with only a few things popping off the top at once. Or, say, one. Because I always get overenthusiastic and then dinged.

8 to 12 books a month. mixed , but lots of lighter books. However, there were only 6 books this mont - which I blame on facebook.

At some point during the summer I decided to start using my lack of employment for good -- or personal enrichment, at least -- and went looking for a top-100 books list to plow through by spring. I found this one: [link] which aligned with what I thought the top books were and what I wanted to read. I started with the first book, War and Peace, in August.

It's December. I'm still unemployed. I still haven't finished War and Peace.

I need to read more. But between the tivo and internet, I only tend to read when I travel.

I read at lunch, on BART, and sometimes a little before I go to bed.

Um, I read YOUSE GUYS.

I read a lot more when I commuted on public transport. I was better informed because I read the paper in the morning. I usually read a book on the way home. Now, I've been driving or walking for the last 8 years, not so conducive to reading.

Now and then I will finish whatever I'm reading and nothing in my To Be Read pile will be immediately appealing and I'll be caught up on Entertainment Weekly and Ellery Queen and I just won't read anything for a day or two. It always feels very weird.

Orrin Hatch wrote a Chanukah song. As a "gift to the Jews." [link]

My dad was just telling me about that at dinner.