New beginnings in the middle of the year

Inspired by a new book I'm reading--The Year of Reading Dangerously by one Andy Miller--I've decided to make a list of books to read--one each week--and provide comment on my experience. A whole year of it...so that's from June 11, 2021 to June 11, 2022. 52 books if I stick to the one-book-per-week formula. 

And what's to go into the list of 52? I'm yet to decide. But I want to get at least the first four weeks' reading list ready before the end of the day. I also realize that there's no point drawing my boundaries too neatly by getting all 52 ready in advance. I will add to it as I go along, and of course, new, and hopefully more interesting, books get published. 

Now that the matter of how to choose my books is out of the way, I need to decide on what will go into my daily blog. I started off by thinking that this will be a good subject to base my daily writing exercises around—an hour of thinking and writing is what I plan to do. I could of course go with general comments as I read each day, but I also want to explore what to include in this general comment apart from the book’s topic, how it’s written, and the usual things that go into a review. Could I perhaps explore my deeply personal opinions? Laugh at them? Write about what I learnt about life, work, children, men and women, and so on?

I’ll learn on the go, beginning with the first book, The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller.

My approach towards both aspects is deliberately loosey-goosey, which seems to be my philosophy for life itself, though I try to resist it by making grand plans, to-do-lists, weekly menus, cleaning lists, all of which often fall apart as the day progresses, but which still seem to provide me with a framework and a sense that I am in control despite everything.