Incredibly, I topped last year's total, even with a book that exceeded last year's 644 pager (Anne Rule's 704-page book about the Green River Killer). Goodreads says a total of 21,630 pages read, and again, mostly in the hour or so before bed.

Assume that all reviews are going to spoil the book. I could not be bothered to do special coding tricks to hide spoilers, sorry. I will add stars for ratings, where 5 is the highest. I'm pretty generous with 5 stars.

Without further ado:

( Books Read, 2025: 69 (…nice) )

( Total numbers for 2011-2024 )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg

Unbelievably, I managed to top last year's number of books read, and that included a book that came in at a whopping 644 pages (Nelson DeMille's The Charm School). Okay, so some them were shorter, but Goodreads tells me it's a total of 17,556 pages read. Not too shabby, considering I mostly only get to read for an hour on average before going to sleep.

For spoiler reveals, just select what looks like blank space between the brackets.

Without further ado:

( Books Read, 2024: 66 (!!!!!) ) ( Total numbers for 2011-2023 )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: The Man Who Vanished (about the disappearance of David Glenn Lewis)

Sooooo, I guess I had a lot more time to read this year. This is the highest number of books I've reached in the years I've been tracking. All of the shorter entries in December are counteracted by my final book, which came in at a very dense 469 pages. Totally worth it.

( Books read 2023: 64 (!!!) )

Total numbers:

2023: 64

( 2011-2022 )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: 1 Hour Compilation of STRANGE Disappearances

Two! Two! Two years in one (post)!

Hearkening back to 2020's list: I also stillllll need to finish up Strangers in Paradise XXV (the last two issues, YES STILL) and Five Years, that brings all of his universes together. I'm reading his new series, Parker Girls, as each new issue comes out.

( Books read 2021: 10 )

This is when my tracking went off the rails, not that I got much reading done at the end of 2021, with moving and other stresses.

( Books read 2022: 21 )

Total numbers:

2022: 21
2021: 10
2020: 40
2019: 11.5
2018: 10.5
2017: 24
2016: 43
2015: 29
2014: 39
2013: 36
2012: 48
2011: 25

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "So. Central Rain"—R.E.M.

A huge improvement over last year! Yay!

I also still need to finish up Strangers in Paradise XXV (the last two issues). And the new series by Terry Moore, Five Years, that brings all of his universes together.

( 2020's book list )

Total numbers:

2020: 40
2019: 11.5
2018: 10.5
2017: 24
2016: 43
2015: 29

Current Mood: accomplished

Well, a tiny improvement over last year, probably because some of these are audiobooks. I'll take whatever progress I can get.

I also need to finish up Strangers in Paradise XXV (the last two issues), but I don't want it to END.

( 2019's book list. )

Total number: 11.5

Current Mood: accomplished

Not a good year for reading. (Not a good year for creative endeavors in general.)

( The book list. )

Total number: 10.5

Current Mood: lethargic

Books, 2017

Two posts in one night!

( Books are behind the cut. )

Total number: 24

Current Mood: accomplished

Books, 2016

( Books are behind the cut. )

Total number for 2016: 43

Current Mood: accomplished

Books, 2015

( Total: 29. My numbers keep declining year to year—sigh. )

Current Mood: accomplished

Books, 2014

Time for the yearly list of books read...

( Total: 39. )

Current Mood: tired

Books, 2013

( Total: 36. Not as many as last year. )

(I started to read MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood, but since I didn't finish it before the end of the year (mostly because I had the last week-and-change off from work, and thus, no bus rides), I didn't list it.)

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Donde estas, Yolanda?

( And without further ado: Books, 2012. )

Total: 48
(Did not count North & South or books I didn't finish (which seems only right) but did count short stories as a single book)

Interesting that I almost doubled my count from 2011. Because of the Kindle? Maybe.

Happy 2012!

I thought it might be fun to track all the books I read this past year. Without further ado: ( Books: The 2011 Edition )

25 in total. Probably would have been more if I hadn't also been writing! :D

Current Mood: pensive

1.) Bought and watched Airplane! (it was on a sale rack at Borders). Boy, have the MPAA standards changed since 1980--this movie has bare breasts, drug use, references to blow jobs and sex, and is rated PG. (It's SO not PC... and I still laugh myself senseless at it.)

2.) Finished reading Silk (the English translation) by Alessandro Baricco. I'm still thinking about it--which I guess is the mark of a good story. And wondering how the hell a.) this is going to play as a movie as it is a very short book and b.) Kiera Knightley is going to be as Hervé's wife Hélène.

3.) More training next week, which means I don't have to be up at 5am. \o/

4.) I dropped my phone on the gravel driveway and now it's got ugly scratches in its green surface :P

Current Mood: tired

( 'Deathly Hallows' SPOILERS!!!! Oh, and a question. )

Very tired, and now to get ready for first day on new job, eeek.

Current Mood: deliberately vague

Finished "A Slight Trick of the Mind" by Mitch Cullen. It was very interesting: Sherlock Holmes, in his 90s, living in post-WW2 England. The story switches the present (just returned from Japan), the recent past (the visit to Japan) and the past (his recounting on paper a case from the turn of the 20th century). It's an interesting study on aging and the inevitable betrayal of the body and mind as one grows old. I'd recommend it but I don't feel the need to have a copy of my own.

Watched an unholy number of movies this weekend: Something's Gotta Give (I may have the title wrong--it's with Jack Nicholson & Diane Keaton), Clue, South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, Bridget Jones' Diary (yes, again) and This is Spinal Tap (hence the couple of new icons).

ETA: Mind you, this was Friday night through Monday, because I had Monday off. I also watched Apartment Zero starring a very young Colin Firth. It wasn't bad! He's definitely gotten more attractive with age, though. :)

Current Mood: tired

...but it is not the same book as before...

Book Meme:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"You say you never read him, Peter!"

"Yes, and that's precisely why! I would not be half surprised if more people never read him each day. ..."

—Peter and Quentin (the protagonist) speaking about Edgar Allan Poe on 8 October 1849, the day after his death, in "The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl.

Current Mood: lethargic
Current Music: Take On Me - a-ha

So there's a toilet at work that, when it flushes, sounds JUST like the monster from "Lost". Makes going to the ladies' a bit disconcerting. (Reminds me of the vent fan in the house we used to live in, that sounded like the jet engines.)

Did you ever stay up too late reading a book that wasn't worth it? Yeah. Me, last night. Finished that "The Man Who Loved Jane Austen" because I don't like starting a book and not finishing it, and... well, while the premise was really interesting, I can't help think it would have been so much compelling in the hands of a better writer. The characters were kind of flat, and the ending was disappointing and abrupt (perhaps disappointing because it was abrupt). And I'm sorry, a sandy haired, green eyed Darcy? I may be biased, but... No.

...I will however give it points for a twist I didn't expect.

Current Mood: listless

A copy of Louis Bayard's The Pale Blue Eye for $2. "Advanced Reader Copy: Not For Sale". I'd been eyeing this on the new hardcover table at Border's for a few weeks now. Whee!

Current Mood: happy

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