Intro yueni

[yueni]

Name: yueni/yueni
Goal: 2 books per month until December 2009, or a total of 16 books by December 31 2009. The catch: half of these must be a Chinese book.
Definition of "book": Current textbooks don't count, fanfic doesn't count either. most everything else does.
Books read so far: 0

A little about my goal and my reading habits: I used to be an avid reader. I could devour 20 books a week easily. However, for the past few years, I've sort of lost the habit. This past year, I've been studying Chinese, and really the only way for me to improve my language skills is to start reading (in Chinese) and watching TV(!!). Thus the current goal to get me back into reading, particularly in Chinese. ^^;;

Intro: wanderer

[wanderer]

Name: wanderer
Goal: 10 non-fiction books read by September 8th, no more than 4 out of the 10 to be education-related. At least 1 on Canadian history.
Definition of "book": Non-fiction; collections of articles/essays okay. No length requirement (within reason. . .)
Books read so far: 0/10

A little about my goal and my reading habits: I have no problem reading fiction books, but I find that when I'm in school, non-fiction reading for pleasure tends to be less enticing, and I don't pick up the habit easily again when I'm not in classes! I'd like to broaden my horizons, and do a little more over the summer: ideally, it'll be a mix of history, world affairs, environmental concerns and other relevant topics. Of course, I can easily read dozens of books about education and educational theory, so I'm limiting that to 4, and I live in Canada but have only a broad overview of Canada-specific history, so I want to find at least one good book to expand my knowledge.