Project: Failed

So a year ago today I launched this blog with the intention of reading 52 books in a year, and writing  reviews of them. I added a few things along the way which seemed germane or interesting.

Between then and now, I started a second blog which was to chronicle my education as an AMT student.

Shortly after that, I got so busy I more or less quit bothering to update either of them.

The  official book count for 2011 is 42. I haven't reviewed Zamyatin's We, (which is badass, but can be rather annoying) nor have I done one over the Jeppesen books we used for class last year. They were horribly written, crappily edited. I could honestly write these books better, and some day, when I have a more full understanding of the subject matter, I will.

Anyway, this isn't a review. It's a declaration of failure.

I might keep up with this. I might not. Either way, I'm pretty sure that I could read 52 books in a year if I felt like it...

The reviews got worse and worse as time went on, because I was just doing them to do them, not because I wanted to, or because I felt like they were even worth my time.

To see good reviews, read the earlier ones.

In any event, I had fun with the project. I'm glad it's over because now I don't have this sense of urgency looming over everything else I do.  But, to be honest, I could've just quit any time I felt like it. I didn't because I knew this was a worthwhile project.

I've gone back and looked at some of the books I read and reviewed, and to be honest, I remember nothing about some of them. Nothing at all. Not even that I read them.

Delicious 

Perhaps a little too much JWR has dissolved my brain. I doubt it, though. Humans aren't that great at recall.

Any way, here's to 2012, the twilight of my twenties, and the turning of the tawdry and sometimes tedious alliterative phrase.