my 2009 goal

is to read a book a week, not counting the boys' books I read along side them

If President Bush had time to read 95 books in 2006, (but not so many in 2007 and 2008) I can read 52. ;o)

I'll keep you posted on my progress. Anyone care to join me in a book-loving resolution? Not a competition such as Bush's and the above articles author Karl Rove but just a goal of sorts?

But it will be a three-peat for me: as of today, his total is 40 volumes to my 64. His reading this year included a heavy dose of history -- including David Halberstam's The Coldest Winter," Rick Atkinson's "Day of Battle," Hugh Thomas's "Spanish Civil War," Stephen W. Sears's "Gettysburg" and David King's "Vienna 1814." There's also plenty of biography -- including U.S. Grant's "Personal Memoirs"; Jon Meacham's American Lion"; James M. McPherson's "Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief" and Jacobo Timerman's "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number." Each year, the president also read the Bible from cover to cover, along with a daily devotional.