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book reviewsNovember 2009
Last Month's Debt: +7 Debt + (Read – (Bought – Bought & Read) x 4) = Book Debt This Month's Debt: +17 I am a huge deadline bandit, but I'm done feeling sorry for myself about being so far over deadline. I'm done thinking that the column is going to end, simply because I haven't written it. The obvious solution is to write the column and be done with it, moving on to the next deadline. No reason to get bogged down in the details. I bought a heavy philosophy book, scored the last two parts of PKD's trilogy, was loaned Eggers' third book even though I didn't finish his second, and I'm still working my way through an HG Wells philosophical classic. So I'm reading books, to be sure (with book debt hot on my tail), but the two I finished this "month" are very light. A book about baseball and yet another Holmes/Russell mystery. And now, without further ado, the polysyllabic spree! October 2009
Last Month's Debt: +3 Debt + (Read – (Bought – Bought & Read) x 4) = Book Debt This Month's Debt: +7 Ahhhhhh. It seems like it's been a long time since I've written about the books I've been reading. Of course that's because I took last month off... but that's no reason to doubt my ultimate and steadfast commitment to the polysyllabic spree. The trick seems to be that you have to buy books to read books. All I had to do is make a quick amazon order and now I'm back to work reading through the library. Just look at the wonderful variety of this month. A few crazy mindbending books, a comic strip featuring stick figures and a sports book about the Red Sox. We've got it all on the polysyllabic spree. July 2009
Last Month's Debt: +2 I guess this means I can stop trying to speed read poetry. At least I'll take a few days off. So here's the story. I'm ordering a magazine subscription, which is a good investment in paper (because I plan to cut them up) and I need to add a little bit more to cart to get free shipping. So I figure I'll just throw in some cheap Dover Thrift titles for the library and round out the cart. I hit a buy 3 get 1 deal and free shipping is achieved. But then my editor tells me that the Dover Thrifts count as book debt, so I start furiously reading poetry. Day and Night, night and day. Really not that much, but you get the idea. I start hauling ass, but let's face it. I flew through Great Short Poems and Frost, but I'm not gonna get through 100 Greatest Poems in the next few days cause they've started writing four page and eight page poems and I can'ts takes it anymores. So more poetry to come next month, but right now the spree is on! June 2009
Last Month's Debt: -1 A rather odd, but short spree this month as I read a woman's book (The Notebook), a man's book (Crooked Little Vein) and a dead man's book (The Salmon of Doubt). I don't really see any connections between them, other than the fact that I read them all and will now review them all, kicking off Year 3 of the polysyllabic spree! May 2009
* denotes re-read
Last Month's Debt: +4 +4 + (3-(2x4) = -1 Late. Behind schedule. Mainly because when the first rolled around, I hadn't read anything. I don't know how it happens. I read some things, I read a few chapters of Human Scale, I read more of the never-ending Auden poetry anthology I have in my desk at work, but I hadn't finished anything, and if I haven't finished it, I can't write about it. So I pulled together some half finished books, breezed through the Canseco book and now at least on paper, it looks like a pretty respectable spree. Rescuing victory from the jaws of the feet. Like they say. Or is it vice versa. Sometimes you can never tell. On with the spree! 
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