The Lamp Magazine | The One Hundred Pages Strategy

7. I keep a notebook in which I jot down the title and author of every book I read. This is true whether I am reading it for the first time or the fifteenth. Keeping a notebook serves a number of valuable purposes. The first is that it will motivate you; it gives you a sense of what you have accomplished, and at the end of the year it will be satis... See more

Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I alluded to what I call the “hundred pages strategy.” This is exactly what it sounds like: every day, come rain or shine, on religious and secular holidays, when I travel and when I am exceptionally busy, I read... See more