Goodreads

                                                      
                                                           
 Yesterday I joined Goodreads after noting it on
J. J. Gallaher's site.  I listed three books, and
today I listed five more.  Not sure what my doing
this will come to, but I've concluded it's a good
way for me to cull books from my meager library I
am no longer interested in and do not wish to let
others know about.                                
                                                  
The three I listed yesterday are: Hannah Arendt's
The Human Condition, Teilhard de Chardin's
The Phenomenon of Man, and The Dragons
of Eden by Carl Sagan.                           
                                                    
The five I listed today are: Malachi Martin's         
The New Castle: Reaching for the Ultimate,
Eric Hoffer's The Temper of Our Time,          
G. B. Harrison's Profession of English,   
Brenda Shaughnessy's Human Dark with Sugar;
and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay 
American Poetry edited by Timothy Liu,      
a book I am currently enjoyably reading.  
More about it later.
                                                       
                                                           
                                                     
Had a note exchange with David-Baptiste
Chirot earlier today as a result of my   
joining Goodreads.                        
                                             
All of this raises some major questions     
I am not the first to consider.  Core    
among these stems from knowing/ humans  
are writing good reads faster than one   
can possibly read them, and that there   
are so many good reads from times past.
How does one decide what to read?  The   
question which follows this, whatever
one decides, is: How will one respond   
to and/or be changed by what one reads?
The question which follows this is:  If
one spends time reading, what about the    
one's writing time?  I can assure you/    
if I didn't need to sleep or eat, I--.
                                             
                                                   
                                              
                                                
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