Life Reading More Good Books notes 2011

(https://sites.google.com/site/kirbyvariety/Home/life-classes/good-reading-notes/life-reading-more-good-books-notes-2011)

1. Rules for this class: come late, leave early, keep pad and pen handy. Go have a coffee, a tea, a milkshake or a martini, with someone, if you wish.

2. Web site, PointReads blog http://pointreads.blogspot.com/

3. Homework starting now: a list of what you can remember reading, augmented by viewing others’ lists, places where your old books are, records of your reading, Alice Payne Hackett and online sources of what was read when,

4. Generally, two sorts of readers: heavy and light

   1. Light: see list of books for Don

   2. Heavy: many lists available

      1. the problem of superlatives and being #1

5. Getting and giving titles

6. www.librarything.org; good reads; good reading, whatshouldireadnext.com

7. Lists and assessment of possible reads, using amazon.com, Google books

8. Check out authors, series, publishers, Google and Google some more, Library of Congress, UWSP, Portage Co.

9. Books you love, books you hate, despise, look down on, recommend avoiding

10. As Emily Dickinson said, "there is nothing like a friggin’ book". Make that "there is no frigate like a book."