My Weekly Book

I found this from English professor Michael Leddy (blogging at Orange Crate Art) via the inimitable BoingBoing. It’s an article on how to get things done, published on Lifehack.

Having just been through NaNoWriMo (where a little planning went a long way towards breaking down a seemingly-impossible project into do-able chunks) and having hit my goal of reading 50 books this year at the end of October, I would say this has a lot of application to the kind of things I’m talking about in this blog. In fact, isn’t it central to the whole idea of ‘a book a week?’

Anyway, here’s a link and an excerpt. And if you’re not reading Lifehack and BoingBoing already, well, you jolly well should be.

Granularity for students

Granularity is also a useful strategy for making even a daunting reading project do-able. If you have eighty pages to read, finish twenty and take a short break; then repeat. If you’re reading James Joyce or Marcel Proust, a handful of pages might be all that you can manage at one sitting, and sometimes you might need to chart your progress by the sentence. But those sentences and pages add up, and I should know. I just finished all seven volumes (3,102 pages) of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), averaging twenty pages a day over five months and two days of reading. Read full article here…

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