Catholics actually read the Bible?

So, what I'm doing here is not new, not innovative, and not, quite frankly, special. It is, however, an act of faith and an act of intellectual curiosity at the same time. For my Lent devotion this year, I have been doing Lectio Divina on the readings for Mass that the Church presents to us on a daily basis. I recently stumbled on a couple of resources that pushed me in this regard:
First, I was directed to a listing of Lectionary statistics - how much of each book of the Bible we actually read when we read the Mass readings for the day. Some books, particularly the minor prophets (Habakkuk? Nahum? Who were they???), receive very little of our liturgical attention, and some receive much, much more. The statistics for Sunday and holy-day-of-obligation Masses indicate that Catholics who are faithful to their Sunday Obligation hear a fraction of the complete Word of God. This makes sense, of course, in that Holy Mother Church uses Scripture as part of liturgy to serve the liturgy, not to ensure that we hear the whole thing like Ezra's crowd. The Lectionary readings have a special place in my heart because they always seem to suit the moment, and their cycling with the seasons seem to encompass all of the various moods and emotions and problems that come with the Christian life.
Secondly, I read the book Good Book by David Plotz of Slate.com...a book about reading the entire (Hebrew) Bible and commenting upon the experience as a person with a cultural, but not always spiritual, connection to it. I was expecting, I think, to read a scathing indictment of "fantastic" and "unbelievable" stories, particularly in the early books. What I found was commentary that, while not often relatable to my own experience of Scripture, had a very human element, a willingness to lay out there what the text makes him think and feel. He doesn't believe what I do or get what I get out of the Bible but it is clear that he is willing to be changed and challenged by it.
And so we have it: A Catholic girl is going to read the Bible...our Bible ( the NAB with all the Deuterocanonicals/so called "Apocrypha" etc.) and point out what I see, know, and believe about the Word. Approaching some of the Bible for the first time, some of it for the thousandth. Writing from the heart and off the cuff, and then consulting Catholic resources (Haydock's commentary, etc.) to let the Magisterium inform me. This is likely to be a four-year plan, using Marcus Grodi's "Read the Bible and Catechism in one year" and splitting it up by columns so reading only one passage, not four, per time.


Come Holy Spirit!