The scarcity of reading time or just plain bad reading habits?
Books waiting to be read in 2009
In recent few years, the annual or bi-annual book warehouse sales held at Expo have given me much cheer in buying new books at a cheap price. In fact, I have been to all except one of MPH warehouse sale since it began.
My book collection, from fantasy fiction to economics and business to travel, has grow exponentially. However time to read them has not increase at a similar rate. Thus, there are many books that have been sitting on my shelves for a few years and accumulating dust rabbits.
In 2009, I hope to finish reading the following economics-related and political-science-related books, and write an informal review about them on this blog.
- A history of Economics: the past as the present – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Common Wealth: economics for a crowded planet – Jeffrey Sachs
- Making Globalisation work – Joseph Stiglitz
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a new world – Alan Greenspan
- State Building – Francis Fukuyama
- Kapital - Karl Marx
- The Republic – Plato
I have a bad habit of starting a book but putting it away midway to start another book. In fact, 4 of the above 7 books, I have started but not yet finish reading them. I should just concentrate on one or at the most, two books before moving on to the next.
And of course, I still have my course readings to be done. Scarcity of time persists here!
