Do you like books? Most of my readers probably do. Regardless of your taste in books, you probably share my problem. You have a bookshelf full of wonderful titles as yet unread.
As much as I love books, I find it hard to stick to my reading plans. I pick one up then lose interest as another catches my eye. I am reading through several as we speak, but I have been making progress. I actually read a book in these last two weeks cover to cover! And then I finished another book I have been working on, and by the end of today will have finished a booklet.
Well, I came across an interesting article on reading. It offers practical tips on pushing through and actually reading the book. But it offers more than that, it encourages “mastering” the book rather than just reading it. The pointers in this article seem like they will help me to take on one book at a time and master it, in a relatively short amount of time. Perhaps this will help me get to all of those editions which are still beckoning to me!
I refer you to this link to read the helpful article entitled “Why Settle for Merely Reading a Book When You Can Master It? How to Read Less More, and Twice as Fast” by Gregory Koukl of Stand to Reason. (I forgot who pointed me to this blog post, sorry.) A brief version of this same article is available here.
∼striving for the unity of the faith for the glory of God∼ Eph. 4:3,13 “¢ Rom. 15:5-7
I wonder if any of your other readers knows who originally penned the words that you’ve borrowed for the title of this post.
Thanks for directing me for the good advice. I’ll try to implement it now and then, as my as yet uncrucified lack of discipline allows.
As I told you before, your reading habits are a mirror image of my own. I like the idea of Greg’s plan to overview, preview, read and postview, hastily marking significant lines in the margin w/out slowing yourself down, and jotting down your own summaries/outline of the content as you read it. Looking forward to attempting to implement it. Perhaps I’ll start with Calvin’s Institutes. I got it last Christmas and am about a third through the first of two volumes ten months later! Definitely not reading it daily or exclusively!
So, Kapitan…, who’s the lucky one whom I plaigarized?
Ahh . . . ! I figured a big music fan like yourself knew what you were doing. Was it a coincidence?
But I’m not calling it “plagiarism,” just borrowing a song title to apply to your topic. Happens all the time, and there’s nothing wrong with it, as far as I know. It’s not like everything at my website is completely original. All the best stuff is someone else’s!
Okay, here’s the answer. MICHAEL CARD had a song called, “So many books, so little time.” It came out in the early nineties, and was on one of his albums setting Old Testament stories to music. This song was based on (was it Jeremiah’s) prophecy which included the reference to a “famine of the hearing the Word of God.” Plus it was a charity song, for the proceeds went toward a ministry that was printing and taking Bibles into countries that don’t have so many of them. Good song, good charity, good sharing with ya’!
You know, John. I am not persuaded that Card invented the phrase. He probably used it just like I did.