That’s awesome! What will #50 be?

I read all the time, and I find it is sort of like going to the gym. If you just get in there and do it, the hour you loose by being there you gain by being more alert and productive and sleeping better.In the same way, I find the more I read, the more I read. I read about 3 to 4 books a month, plus blog, rolls the paper etc..I kind of do it like this, maybe it might work for somebody else too!First thing is to know what you want to read and when is the right time to read it. Each book was written in a special time and place, by someone who was thinking of a time and place. Reading a book that matches where you are or where you want to be really helps you return to reading, and finding pockets of time to read. Eat locally, drink locally, read locally, sometimes just reading books written in the city where you live is enough to draw you into as that you are sort of a character in the book itself, and so on this sort of Tao of reading (laughing at how pretentious and silly that sounds) really helps (for me!) because reading becomes a part of your day in easy natural way. If you hate where you are, read a book that takes you away!Second thing is to cruise the book stores or libraries before you finish the book you’re currently reading. Find a book that looks good, that you want to read, and wait to buy it/borrow it until you finish the book you’re currently on. The thing that drags out a book is the connection you have with it and it’s characters and as you approach the end you often want to stretch it out, you don’t want it to end, so you slow down and the characters go in slow motion, like a chess match by mail. If you know what you are going to read next, and you can’t wait to rescue it from the book store then you are going to read the book your on at a consistent speed and it will actually read better (imagine slowing down a record towards the end because you loved it so much, wouldn’t sound the same and what you loved about it might become warbled and distorted. -of course this is my personal feelings not scientific research or anything-).Third thing is read the right stuff! Which is what? So different for each person, but there is a path. (sorry getting Tao-y again) but you know you were reading the right books when you look back and you were reading one after the other and loving it. You “might” be reading the wrong books if you can’t get through them. Maybe they are just not what you really want to read. If you really want to read the new Dan Brown book, then read it! It will lead you to Instance at the Fingerpost and then Name of the rose and then on to Calvino, etc. or maybe just back to another Dan Brown! Why not, if it makes you happy.But the thing is that taking the time to figure out the right book through suggestions or reviews, or friends or pure gut desire, makes a HUGE difference on the number of book and the amount of time you find yourself creating time to read.Like for example Julia Osovskaya, you just finished Lolita, you got to check out Laughter in the Dark, it’s my favorite Nabokov and such a great follow-up, darker, deeper more neurotic that Lolita. Or katiekills, after 100 years of solitude, you got to check out any book by Milorad Pavic, especially the Inner side of the Wind!Crowd source your next read, and see if you read more! I’ll help, if you do the same for me.I read one novel of literature a month, one book about social issues or business and one page turner, some kind of religious/scientific/history thriller that is sort of mental floss and then let the triangulation of the three decide the forth or fifth book and the cycle starts again.I find the thrillers leave me longing for literature and inadvertently increase  my reading speed as that they are paced and written to be read quickly. When you read a 400 page book in 3 days, then you kind of maintain a sort of cruising speed on something a little more meatier. Not that you speed read it by any means. It’s just you get into a rhythm, and you finish Faulkner in a week and half instead of a month.I try not to surf the net even though it is what I do for a living, instead I read the internet through a google reader ( http://www.google.com/reader/shared/jessewpoe)And then on the subway I read books on my iphone. I took the games off, and find that reading an old classic on my phone in ten to fifteen minute segments, really builds a lust to go home and read. And once again sort of slows my mind down into the world where reading is the speed.This month I am writing a novel so my reading time has been step-childed a bit but I still find time to read even after and before writing.It’s a habit you get in to, or that you fall out of….. be good everyone!Jesse W. Poe@dmdxd

That’s awesome! What will #50 be?

I read all the time, and I find it is sort of like going to the gym. If you just get in there and do it, the hour you loose by being there you gain by being more alert and productive and sleeping better.In the same way, I find the more I read, the more I read. I read about 3 to 4 books a month, plus blog, rolls the paper etc..I kind of do it like this, maybe it might work for somebody else too!First thing is to know what you want to read and when is the right time to read it. Each book was written in a special time and place, by someone who was thinking of a time and place. Reading a book that matches where you are or where you want to be really helps you return to reading, and finding pockets of time to read. Eat locally, drink locally, read locally, sometimes just reading books written in the city where you live is enough to draw you into as that you are sort of a character in the book itself, and so on this sort of Tao of reading (laughing at how pretentious and silly that sounds) really helps (for me!) because reading becomes a part of your day in easy natural way. If you hate where you are, read a book that takes you away!Second thing is to cruise the book stores or libraries before you finish the book you’re currently reading. Find a book that looks good, that you want to read, and wait to buy it/borrow it until you finish the book you’re currently on. The thing that drags out a book is the connection you have with it and it’s characters and as you approach the end you often want to stretch it out, you don’t want it to end, so you slow down and the characters go in slow motion, like a chess match by mail. If you know what you are going to read next, and you can’t wait to rescue it from the book store then you are going to read the book your on at a consistent speed and it will actually read better (imagine slowing down a record towards the end because you loved it so much, wouldn’t sound the same and what you loved about it might become warbled and distorted. -of course this is my personal feelings not scientific research or anything-).Third thing is read the right stuff! Which is what? So different for each person, but there is a path. (sorry getting Tao-y again) but you know you were reading the right books when you look back and you were reading one after the other and loving it. You “might” be reading the wrong books if you can’t get through them. Maybe they are just not what you really want to read. If you really want to read the new Dan Brown book, then read it! It will lead you to Instance at the Fingerpost and then Name of the rose and then on to Calvino, etc. or maybe just back to another Dan Brown! Why not, if it makes you happy.But the thing is that taking the time to figure out the right book through suggestions or reviews, or friends or pure gut desire, makes a HUGE difference on the number of book and the amount of time you find yourself creating time to read.Like for example Julia Osovskaya, you just finished Lolita, you got to check out Laughter in the Dark, it’s my favorite Nabokov and such a great follow-up, darker, deeper more neurotic that Lolita. Or katiekills, after 100 years of solitude, you got to check out any book by Milorad Pavic, especially the Inner side of the Wind!Crowd source your next read, and see if you read more! I’ll help, if you do the same for me.I read one novel of literature a month, one book about social issues or business and one page turner, some kind of religious/scientific/history thriller that is sort of mental floss and then let the triangulation of the three decide the forth or fifth book and the cycle starts again.I find the thrillers leave me longing for literature and inadvertently increase  my reading speed as that they are paced and written to be read quickly. When you read a 400 page book in 3 days, then you kind of maintain a sort of cruising speed on something a little more meatier. Not that you speed read it by any means. It’s just you get into a rhythm, and you finish Faulkner in a week and half instead of a month.I try not to surf the net even though it is what I do for a living, instead I read the internet through a google reader ( http://www.google.com/reader/shared/jessewpoe)And then on the subway I read books on my iphone. I took the games off, and find that reading an old classic on my phone in ten to fifteen minute segments, really builds a lust to go home and read. And once again sort of slows my mind down into the world where reading is the speed.This month I am writing a novel so my reading time has been step-childed a bit but I still find time to read even after and before writing.It’s a habit you get in to, or that you fall out of….. be good everyone!Jesse W. Poe@dmdxd

Hey you forgot a Poe house.Mine!nice article.happy halloween-jesse poe

More, please do Brooklyn as well!The Hug Life is a message so easily understood and so very needed. Would love to see that one be done on all 120 illegal billboards in NYC.

Amazing, always wondered what they wore underneath there! Now I understand why they must keep it covered! (all joking aside) it’s a wonderful add, and I am sure they’ll get heat for it, but it is so nice to see a sort of hat tip to the women under those garments. I see them on the NYC subways covered head to toe and their boyfriends completely decked out in hip-hop street wear, (something that happens across many religious lines) and I just want to smile and let them know that they are seen, they are a part of me and the world we live in together. I don’t know what will come of this ad, but if it starts a healthy dialogue on behalf of empowering those women, then god bless the Germans for this wonderful ad.(author’s note: I know that some choose this life and I respect that whole-heartedly. Any woman who CHOOSES to do so I support as much as I support those who didn’t choose and want to be free of it)