My wife gifted me the three volumes of Habermas's Also a History of Philosophy for Christmas today. I am going to actually try to challenge myself to read but also blog each day about whatever I read. Would be a good exercise but also interesting to see the pace of reading a large collection of books each day. It is also a good book to do this since it relates to some of my current readings but also the format of going through each age, starting with the pre-philosophy of the sacred and religion. It also engages with Girard, who, Habermas disagrees with it looks like, but is interesting for a philosopher to engage with. I did not expect Habermas to agree with Girard's narrative anyway.
I have not read much of Habermas. I have read one of his lectures he gave with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) in the book The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion, but most of the work I have read are American scholars engaging with Habermas.
I haven't really done this before. I mark up my books quite a bit. I will probably use it as a way to reflect more than 1:1 map the mark ups, expand on the little shorthand mechanisms I make in the margin, and reference other works that I am thinking of in relation to the text.