dept of frivolous but pride-inducing and deflating titles: literacy
Damn it, people. It looks like you slacked off on the whole “reading” endeavor this year. After two consecutive crownings as the most literate city in the whole country, Seattle now finds itself stuck in a Minneapolis–St. Paul sandwich. [usatoday] Let’s try to step it up and read for pleasure a little harder next year, shall we?
(via fimoculous [#], who recently fled our fair city for less literate climes.)
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The crappy thing about that survey is they counted all the travel bookstores that don’t even sell to locals - only sell to stranded NWA passengers - in both the Minneapolis and St Paul cities.
It’s obvious to me (an outsider) that these two fair cities are actually ONE city now. Their ranking should be combined!
The survey is frivolous. All they did was count bookstores and count copy, among other inert statistics.
Hey, I did more than my fair share this year. I average 3 books a week, sometimes more. Currently I am working on Time Magazine’s Top 100 Books list. 15 down, 85 to go!
Holy smokes, Wesa. I thought I read a lot.
I read three books while I was in Bama. That’s 50% of my total for 2007.
I probably read 20,000 words worth of blog posts a day, though, which makes this survey’s numbers look all the stupider.