I like this concept, but I'm not in. :-/ Mainly the reason is that I read books on a random-access basis. It's like there's some mysterious black-box function that decides that at certain times some books are "shiny" (to my brain) and at certain times the same books are completely unappealing. Which explains why I own so many books I still haven't read: they were shiny when I bought them, lost shininess (at least for a while) once they were in the house. All this just to say, trying to select books for chromatic author-ness is as doomed to fail as selecting books for being humorous or for being about steppes warfare or for being written by a female author. If I try to push myself to read in that way, I end up not reading at all.
May I do a modified version of this? I would like to be reading a little more nonfiction about religious Others and non-Western histories. (I sort of regret now that I ditched that book about non-Western warfare, but good sweet gravy it was dry.--Author's fault, not topic's.) I don't think I can realistically commit to 50 (for a lot of the reasons listed above)--but I can commit to something > 0.
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Date: 2009-01-28 12:24 am (UTC)May I do a modified version of this? I would like to be reading a little more nonfiction about religious Others and non-Western histories. (I sort of regret now that I ditched that book about non-Western warfare, but good sweet gravy it was dry.--Author's fault, not topic's.) I don't think I can realistically commit to 50 (for a lot of the reasons listed above)--but I can commit to something > 0.