Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:03:26 -0600 (CST)
From: samlubell at verizon.net
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Cc: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] How far behind are you on your "To Be Read Tower" ??
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

We must all bow down before Donalyn Miller, who writes the Book Whisperer blog for Teacher Magazine.

She wrote she read 620 books in 2011.   "(Yes, this number includes a lot of children's books, but that is important for my students and me.) I have friends who read more than me, and friends who read less. I don't have any non-reading friends, which speaks volumes about me, I suppose."

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/2012/01/i_resolve_to_read.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBookWhisperer+%28Teacher+Magazine+Blog%3A+The+Book+Whisperer%29

Jan 4, 2012 12:30:15 AM, wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com wrote:

samlubell at verizon.net wrote:
>
> I read over 150 books in 2011 and barely made a dent in my pile.
>

Piker. When I was a kid, and new books were well under a buck, and then
there were used and cut-cover (who knew, back in the sixties?), I'd
figure I was annually doing at least 365.

mark
> I have the following poster up in my office.
> http://owlsquarepress.com/bttc36.html
>
> Jan 3, 2012 06:45:53 PM, wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> "We all plan to do a lot more reading someday, but our aspirations
> usually outstrip our achievements" -- letter to The New Yorker,
> December 5, 2011
>
> mjw
>