Tuesday, February 1, 2011

850 books in the box

Ok, so I discussed a few blogs back that I put some author's names in a container and I will draw a name when it's time to read the next book. Well, I expanded on the idea. I organized my books in Librarything and put all of the books that I want to read in one category. Then I printed out that category list, cut them up and folded each one and put them in a box. As I folded them a few thoughts came to mind. First, if I die tomorrow and my family finds this box of folded up book titles, they are going to think I was slightly insane. Maybe they'll think it was cute, or creative. I don't care. I can't think of any other way to fairly and randomly pick the next book. As I folded them, I looked at the titles and I would think to myself, "I hope I get this one first," or "I hope I don't draw this one." For the ones I hoped not to get, I would say, "If you don't want to read this book, why do you own it?" So then I would reconcile myself to fate. Then I started imagining weird combinations of three such as Bertrand Russel, Jean Auel, and Roots. Well. there's about 5000 pages to get through. SO I laid out some mental rules for myself:
1. If I really don't want to read a book, I can put it back into the pot.
2. If I start reading a book, and I just hate it, I will stop.
3. If I get the second (or third) of a series, I will read them in order.

Whatever, it's just my own casual book fate challenge.
Besides, I have a bunch of books on my bedside to finish before I draw my first one.  There are 850 books in the box. What will my first book be???

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