50-book challenge 2011: books read July-December

[phoebesmum]

You'd think that, what with being ill and all, I'd've done nothing but read over the past six months. Sad fact: you get to a stage where you're too fuzzy-brained even to read, even to re-read children's books. I did - just - get to the 50, but a lot of those are, in fact, re-reads, and a lot of them are children's books

Comments

[smtfhw]

The Moomin books are either frivolous childish fluff or profound philosophical treatises; personally, I see no reason why they shouldn’t be both.

You'll get no argument from me on this!

[phoebesmum]

Very strange animals, the Moomin books. I don't think it's actually possible to define them.

[alysscarlet]

You read more books than I did in 2011, despite being so sick! Well done! I've got a heap of books (bigger since Christmas) sitting by the bed and I just can't start reading for long without falling asleep. Pathetic!

[phoebesmum]

You moved house - it sounds so easy when you put it like that, doesn't it! - with all that that entails, and were working as well, so you probably had less time than I did. I am seriously thinking of only reading *good* books from now on, since a lot of the ones on my list were a waste of time. Trouble is, there aren't enough good books to go round - or maybe there are, but how do you find them? Several of these I bought because they'd had good reviews, or through Amazon recs, only to be disappointed.