GeekZenDaddy, another participant in Zoe’s Read-a-ton contest, turned me onto Shelfari. Shelfari creates a personal book shelf where you can showcase your books and share opinions of the books you read. I think I’m going to quite like using this service.

Today I have a split update. I only managed to get through another 150 pages (give or take a few) in The Last Juror last night. Luckily for me, my eyes became heavy and I started to fall asleep just as I hit the second section of the book.Â

This evening I began reading Robert Mager’s Preparing Instructional Objectives. I’ve been planning to read this for work for the past few weeks. I’m about 50% through it and I’m loving it. The book is written in a “choose your own adventure” style where your reading path is based on existing knowledge or understanding of the topic. I’ll have to admit, I’m actually reading it page-by-page this time through. I’ll take the quick route through the next time I read it.

Mager’s book is infused with a great sense of humour and fun. Page 6 has an amusing blurb advising that there’s no reason for you to be reading the page, and I’ve found my new favorite learning objective on page 21: “using a stick, beat a dead horse to oblivion”.

The only downside I’ve found to the book so far is the fact that there are occassional references to page numbers (remember: it’s choose your own path) that when you flip to the page doesn’t actually have a number on it. For example, there’s a reference to page 33 but when you get to page 33, there’s no page number. Instead, it’s the first page of chapter 3. All in all, it’s a small complaint in what I’m finding to be a great book.

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