Depending on whether you count my updated baseball stats back in October, this is either my fifth or sixth 2023 year in review post. Either way, I saved the longest and most complicated list for last. It was so long and complicated that I started an entire new series about stuff I'm reading just to make sure that my 2024 iteration will be less long ( Read more... )

In 2022, I read 134 total books. Broken across categories, there were:
- 22 adult books.
- 1 comic book (another "purchase a collection to support one of my favorite web comics)
- 112 different children's books that I read for the first time to my daughter.

This overall total was less than in 2021 by 23, but the number of "adult" books actually ( Read more... )

This yearly summary would be much more impressive if I just focused on the numbers. In 2021, I read 157 total books, up dramatically from the abysmal low of 46 in 2020 and just barely off my highest total ever since I started keeping track back in 2008, which had 159.

However, as I allude to in my mid-year update, the vast majority of those books ( Read more... )

I read 46 books in 2020 for the first time, of which 11 were graphic novels. That's substantially down from 2019 and actually less than my prior low in 2011. As noted a few times, between M not being comfortable with the library, my lack of mental focus for longer reading tasks, my binging of web comics and an inordinate amount of time spent on a ( Read more... )

I read 72 books in 2019, of which 5 were graphic novels. That's nearly the same number of prose novels as 2018, which most of the difference being the dramatically smaller number of comics I read. I also didn't finish any poetry collections. Here's the full list.

* = Graphic Novels
Italics - Highlights

Charles C. Mann - 1491: New Revelations of ( Read more... )

In 2018 I read 101 books. This was my first foray into triple digits since 2014 when I read 100 on the nose and the most since I read 116 in 2009. Of those 101 books, 75 were prose, 25 were graphic novels, and 1 was a poetry collection.

Those numbers were up dramatically from 2017. As I mentioned at the end of Q1, I was going to far fewer movies ( Read more... )

This year I read 48 prose books and 32 graphic novels, with one poetry collection thrown in for good measure, for 81 in total. That's up substantially from last year's 68, but most of that growth came in comics. I actually read fewer prose novels than last year, and far more comics. A significant number (eleven) of those prose novels were ( Read more... )

This year I read 59 prose books and 9 graphic novels, for 68 in total. That's the most prose novels since 2010 and the fewest graphic novels since 2011. I didn't finish this year's poetry collection, which led to some ambiguousness about whether I should continue reading the Economist. Since I'm not likely to finish my current book in the next ten ( Read more... )

In 2015 I read 56 books, 22 graphic novels and one poetry collection. Although that was fewer total books than 2014, I read more real** books than in 2014 with a lot fewer graphic novels. Since I only wrote a little bit about this year's books, I'll summarize a few highlights, but first the list.

* = graphic novel
^ = poetry
Italics = favorites ( Read more... )

Early in 2014 I posted a book capsule post which started with in a probably vain attempt to avoid having a huge pile of book capsules at the end of the year... And I was right. It was a vain attempt, as I only did two more book posts, which covered a scarce three books in little detail. This is a shame, because I managed to read one hundred books ( Read more... )