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Words yesterday: 1320.

Pleased with this - meant I could goof off last night with a clear conscience, instead of the OMG I so suck feeling which I get when I've written nothing.

I was listening to the radio the other day and someone was saying on a book programme that we all should, from time to time read books "2 zones out of our comfort zone" As intriguing as this is, I can't imagine what it means - particularly for my own Catholic tastes, as I read everything from children's fiction to gay porn and everything in between. Perhaps it means something that I really wouldn't read, like philosophy text books or Clinton's autobiography. However that wouldn't be pleasurable for me, and for all that I rant and rave and cry over books, I do want the experience to be pleasurable. I spent enough time when I left school, not reading AT ALL because my experience of English Lit was so painful. (I've read The Inheritors since then and enjoyed it, but OMG the agony of deconstructing it at school). So I don't want to start doing the trendy thing and reading stuff that will make the experience less fun, to be frank.

What about you lot? Do you deliberately read stuff to challenge you from time to time? If so - anything you recommend?