Thus far in 2024:

I have read 296 books, which broken down as follows:
- 26 prose books
- 20 graphic novels
- 3 books of poetry
- 247 books I read to my daughter

All of those component numbers are higher than 2023 at the same point, which says to me that I'm allowing adequate time for reading ( Read more... )

This year I've read 119 books, broken down as follows:
- 20 normal adult books, which is just shy of my total from all of 2022. I'd like to tell you this is because I've made time to read more, but I suspect it has more to do with my being laid off with a nice supporting side of regularly giving platelets again- 13 graphic novels, which blows my ( Read more... )

We're 2 years and 3 months into the pandemic, and 17 months into Birdie's birth, and those combined factors both weigh heavily on the mid-year review.

This year I've read 56 books, broken down as follows:
- 14 normal adult books.
- 1 graphic novel
- 41 children's books. This is a lot lower than last year's mid-year total only because the rate of ( Read more... )

Thus far this strange, weird, life changing year, I have:

- Read 99 books. You might think, that seems like an insane amount of books, by far the most of any of my mid-year reports and more than most yearly totals. And you would be right. Of those 99 ( Read more... )

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Thus far this year, I've:

Read 55 books, 15 of which were graphic novels and one of which was a poetry collection. This is my second best total since records began, following only 2009Seen 22 movies, easily my worst mid year total yet. This is probably directly related to my high number of books read ( Read more... )

Thus far this year, I've:

Read 41 books, fourteen of which were graphic novels (including seven volumes of Saga) and the remainder of which were prose. This blows 2016 out of the water, and includes all 1000+ pages of the first volume of the comprehensive history of the Civil Rights movement, Parting the WatersSeen 41 movies. That's my best at the ( Read more... )

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Thus far this year, I've:

Read 45 books. This is one off of last year, but the number of 'real' books is up (29 to 25). Most of the graphic novels are the BPRD series. As a special bonus, this year I've read both War and Peace (excellent) and The Best and the Brightest (depressingly excellent), and enjoyed them both even at a combined 2000 pages ( Read more... )