Book Log : Some People Juggle Geese

I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 2067 books since then (about 88 books per year).

Below is the list for this year. See complete list.

Currently Reading

Success with Asian Names
by Fiona Swee-Lin Price I like words. I like foreign languages. Names in other cultures are interesting. Also, some of the names I see in Singapore still confuse me.

Les Miserables (Vol 1)
by Victor Hugo (translated by Charles E. Wilbour) I might have read it in high school, but if I did it was probably an abridged version. Time to attack the real thing! My copy is the Wordsworth Classics two-volume edition, translated by Charles E. Wilbour.

Finished Reading

	Title and Author (Series)	Finished
	Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler	02-Oct-21
	Diary of an Expat in Singapore by Jennifer Gargiulo	28-Sep-21
	Layli and Majnun by Nezami Ganjavi, translated by Dick Davis	27-Sep-21
	Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch	09-Sep-21
	1000 Character Classic by Evelyn Lip	08-Sep-21
	Bambi by Felix Salten, translated by Hannah Correll	29-Aug-21
	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens	27-Aug-21
	Demystifying The Female Brain by Sara McKay	12-Aug-21
	The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli	04-Aug-21
	Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli	01-Aug-21
	Factfulness by author Hans Rosling	30-Jul-21
	Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited by Cherian George	26-Jul-21
	Websterisms by Arthur Schulman (Compiler), Jill Lepore (Introduction)	23-Jul-21
	Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation by Cherian George	15-Jul-21
	Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder	08-Jul-21
	Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos	07-Jul-21
	Dragonhearted by Xie Shi Min	22-Jun-21
	How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark	21-Jun-21
	Never the Twain by Abdoel Moeis	19-Jun-21
	Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk	12-Jun-21
	An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim	29-May-21
	Suicide Club by Rachel Heng	27-May-21
	The Leeter Tunku by Antoine de Saint Exupery, trans. by Gwee Li Sui	26-May-21
	The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery (Cuffe translation)	26-May-21
	The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley	24-May-21
	Liberalism Unveiled by Bryan Cheang and Donovan Choy	22-May-21
	Singapore Teachers by Yanping Fang	10-May-21
	Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte	05-May-21
	The Plague by Albert Camus / Robin Buss	26-Apr-21
	The Autobiography of Munshi Abdullah by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir	26-Mar-21
	The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi	15-Mar-21
	Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel Dennett	15-Mar-21
	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee	08-Mar-21
	The Teenage Workbook by Adrian Tan	26-Feb-21
	The Teenage Textbook by Adrian Tan	26-Feb-21
	The Truth About Language by Michael C. Corballis	25-Feb-21
	The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu / Edward G. Seidensticker	22-Feb-21
	I Am A Filipino Maid by Loo Bee Geok	19-Feb-21
	The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu / Royall Tyler	08-Feb-21
	Secrets of Singapore by Lesley-Anne and Monica Lim	20-Jan-21
	Bad English by Ammon Shea	04-Jan-21

41 books finished so far.

13,388 pages in the selected books (an average of about 326 pages each).

That's an average of about 8 days per book (assuming no overlap) or 19 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration), which is equivalent to 41 books (or 13,424 pages) per year. Or 37 pages per day, actually.

Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 2.

Fiction books: 18 (44%)
Non-fiction books: 23 (56%)