Just for fun, I thought I’d provide some stats on the 2008 Puritan Reading Challenge.
# of Books: 12
# of Pages: 2559
# of Pages Need to Be Read Everyday: 7 (average)
Amount of time needed to read 7 pages a day: Less than 30 minutes
# of hours the average American home has television on: 7
Percentage of Americans who do not read one book a year: 57%
Amount of the 12 books with the RHB special: $65
Amount of money average American spends each year on Christmas presents: $865
# of Visits to P&P regarding the Challenge in the first week: over 13,000
# of Blogs Promoting/Blogging the Challenge: 75+
# of People Confirmed in the Challenge: 136
(from all over the globe, including Japan, South Africa, Zambia, UK, and Canada)
So what are you waiting for? Don’t be the average couch potato wasting away in from of the television! Join The Puritan Reading Challenge today (everybody’s doing it)! 😉
An addition to reading it is also helpful to record your thoughts on the content. You might do this on a blog or in a journal or even in the margin of the books as you read.
I have been recording my thoughts on my blog, and while my thoughts may not be sublime (heck, they might not even be coherent!) they do tend to allow me to review what I have read.
Join The Puritan Reading Challenge today (everybody’s doing it)!
LOL! 😀
I’m not from someplace as exotic as Zambia, but I bet I’m the only challenge participant from the San Francisco Bay Area. You don’t find too many puritan fans around here, lemme tell ya, so that really ought to count for something…
OTOH, very “in” here in the SFBA is being a non-conformist and you can’t get much more non-conformist than the original Nonconformists!
Jen,
Well, with all the wild animals you guys have over there, it may feel like Africa. 🙂 Yes, San Fran probably doesn’t have many Puritan-friendly folks, but that is why you are there, right?
BTW, do you know Justin Buzzard, who I think pastors in the area? Just curious.