My year of "My year of....." books.

The latest one's I've read about are someone writing about their year of living Biblically, and two about people eating only locally produced foods or foods that they grew themselves. Newsweek this week had an article about "my year of being a stay at home dad". Recently there was a book about someone taking a year to read the Encylopedia Brittanica. "Nickle and Dimed" was, I think, about a woman who worked minimum wage jobs for a year (but that book has been around a bit).

A few weeks ago I read an article about "My Year Of ....." books. I'll see if I can fine it......

Do you have any pointers for me CJane. Teaching responsiblity is a toughy.

"The Year of Living Biblically," Jacobs's forthcoming chronicle of his yearlong quest to follow every mandate in the Bible, is just one of a recent flurry of "year of" books. Sara Bongiorni gave up buying Chinese products for "A Year Without 'Made in China'." Judith Levine gave up shopping altogether for "Not Buying It." Barbara Kingsolver fed her family with what they could grow or source locally for "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." Ellen Currey-Wilson banned TV from the house for "The Big Turnoff." And Colin Beavan swore off luxuries like toilet paper, disposable cups and air conditioning for his blog No Impact Man.

The recent vogue for year-of memoirs can be traced to Peter Mayle's 1990 "A Year in Provence," in which he moved to France with his wife. Next came 2005's "Julie and Julia," followed in 2006 by Maria Dahvana Headley's year of saying yes to every man who asked her out for "The Year of Yes," and Norah Vincent's year-and-a-half of cross-dressing for "Self-Made Man."

boomerang wrote:

Do you have any pointers for me CJane. Teaching responsiblity is a toughy.

It is tough, and it seems, we've been consumed by it. My book would
be a constant repetition. Sometimes I sound like a broken record,
and it still hasn't sunk in *sigh*