{"id":3496,"date":"2010-08-03T01:49:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2010-08-03T01:49:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:49:05","slug":"some-new-additions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3496","title":{"rendered":"Some New Additions….."},"content":{"rendered":"

To the ominously increasing\u00a0antilibrary<\/a> and the\u00a0waning\u00a0summer reading\u00a0<\/a>bookpiles:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Counterinsurgency<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> by David Kilcullen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire<\/strong><\/a> by Edward Luttwak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spook Country<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> by William Gibson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hope to start\u00a0 a couple of these by the end of the month. A number of other books to be finished first.<\/p>\n

I have a new decentralized reading strategy that seems to be helping me wad through books faster. Books that I am reading are distributed to be read in different places – one in my gym bag for the treadmill; one in my car in case\u00a0there’s\u00a0time to kill at an appointment or at a restaurant; one or two books\u00a0downstairs to read on the couch or outside on the deck; one to take to the pool with the kids and four of five on my bedstand. There are also\u00a0a store of books on my iPad, “just in case”.<\/p>\n

The strategy allows me to concentrate on finishing several books – my “primary” reads –\u00a0even as I steadily chip away at the rest and there are enough choices available to suit my mood on any given day so it doesn’t feel like I am doing a literary marathon. Books that I am focusing on, usually histories, strategic studies\u00a0and social science works,\u00a0I will mark up with marginalia and the others are just read without recourse to notation.<\/p>\n

How do you handle your reading time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the ominously increasing\u00a0antilibrary and the\u00a0waning\u00a0summer reading\u00a0bookpiles: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Counterinsurgency by David Kilcullen The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward Luttwak Spook Country by William Gibson Hope to start\u00a0 a couple of these by the end of the month. A number of other books to be finished first. I have a new decentralized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,119,420,133,368,20,444,128,343,445,599,558,127,530,605,1,18,217,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-attention","category-authors","category-book","category-byzantium","category-coin","category-fiction","category-personal","category-readers","category-reading","category-science-fiction","category-social-science","category-strategy","category-strategy-and-war","category-tactics","category-uncategorized","category-war","category-warriors","category-william-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}