Critical Mass liked my recent posting on reading lists (the one that inspired me to launch “Consumables”).
Here’s what she said in preface to posting her own list:
In a much earlier incarnation of this blog, I used to maintain a running list of my own reading. I was always surprised by how much traffic my reading list page attracted. I liked contemplating the list just as I like contemplating my own (vastly overcrowded) bookshelves–there’s a sort of mnemonic quality to both activities that is at once soothing and inspiring–but I was quite intrigued to see how many other people were also interested in the list. As Terry says, such lists are approximations of people’s shelves, and as such they offer both insight into the lister’s mind and suggest new directions the reader of the list might take in his or her own reading….
Not surprisingly, her readers are posting their own lists as comments.
Have I started something? I sure hope so.