It's been a good year of reading for me. Somewhere over 180 books, like three DNFs. Mostly novels. Some really very good books, some really very not good ones even outside the DNFs. Found some writers to watch and some writers to avoid.
What are you reading in 2024?
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I did. It's not as much reading as I used to do (I'm sure there's at least one year in the 1990s when I read at least 500 books) but given that I more or less wasn't reading for pleasure at all, a little more than a year ago, I'm happy to be reading as much as I am. Eventually I'll start doing something about some of the large unread books on my shelves--not that I'm intimidated, but I'll need to work out a different schedule than "eat dinner, read a book, Internet a little, go to bed."Nifty! It’ll be about 120 for me, but it was a year with more than usual distractions, and also of reading some big chonking hefty books, so I’m very pleased. Sounds like you had some Valuable Learning Experiencesin there.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Good luck. Be sure to take some string with you.
Or, uh, get ready to bounce off of the meta ...
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Wild. My wife’s main hobbies are knitting and reading. She usually reads every moment she can. Even while knitting and exercising, etc. She has regular downtime at work, which she fills with reading. She’s also a bit of a speed reader. And I think she might hit 80-90 books this year.Nifty! It’ll be about 120 for me, but it was a year with more than usual distractions, and also of reading some big chonking hefty books, so I’m very pleased. Sounds like you had some Valuable Learning Experiences
I read a book every night I'm not ... doing something else (gaming, vacation, some other social thing ...). My wife reads more ... constantly than I do, and not all that much slower (and she just figured out that she can knit and read at the same time, more slowly at both, so long as the knitting isn't all that involved); I expect she read like 300 books this year.
(My "a book every night" is part of why I haven't yet addressed those big unread books on my shelves.)
Pedantic
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I'm on track to hit 200, but I'm likely to run out of books I want to read before I get there. It's a significant part of my entertainment/media diet; if a book makes it longer than a couple days, I must not like it very much, or I'm reading some other book simultaneously and this one has been demoted to tier 2.
There was a point in my life when I would read more than one book at a time. At this point I think they'd all have to be non-narrative nonfiction for me to do that. Part of how many days a book will take me to read is how many hours per day I'll give it; that's a large part of what I'll have to change about what I'm doing when I address those large unread books on my shelves. Well, that and the fact that I'm not super-great about stopping a book before I finish it, and my sleep cycle really doesn't need that sort of disruption at this point.
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