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Inspired by the Largehearted Boy’s 52 books in 52 weeks resolution of last year, I’ve resolved to reinvigorate my reading habit by reading at least one book per month for 2006. I’ve always been an avid and quick reader, but the demands of grad school, the availability of Lost and The Office via iTMS, and the fact that my cat Gary took to chewing on the cord for my bedside lamp all took their toll on my pleasure-reading pace in 2005.

I hope to outpace my goal significantly, but because I want an inducement to maintain a reading pace throughout the year, I’m not going to give myself credit for reading ahead. That is to say that if I manage to read two or even three books in January, I don’t get December off.

I’ve begun the year with John Battelle’s The Search, which thus far is a great retelling of the early days of search, and the wild late 90s, when I was in college, and it seemed that every month or so there was a new search engine on the scene. I’m a little over halfway through, and I’d recommend it.