Novelty
My current novel For the last several years, starting with Moby Dick , I have been reading novels on my iPhone Kindle app. Usually at night, a couple of pages or at least one sentence. My goal is read at least something of the novel daily with 95% compliance. There are days that I miss. But, I do put a reminder on my iPhone calendar to at least not forget. It is like the old adage of how to eat an elephant: One bite at a time. I have knocked out about ten classic novels in the last three years and have found a lot of enrichment by doing so. I was watching a talk on CSPAN2 BOOK TV yesterday, "television for serious readers," which is a tad ironic, where the speaker was getting into talking about George Washington's mom. History hasn't been kind to her apparently, but the speaker sought to rectify what she perceived to be the unfavorable light in which she has been cast, primarily by George Washington's letters referencing her, particularly in her petition