I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 1839 books since then (about 92 books per year).
Below is the list for this year. See complete list.
Currently Reading
The Fugitive
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels I am reading this Indonesian novel for my Backlist books column at Asian Books Blog.
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels I am reading this Indonesian novel for my Backlist books column at Asian Books Blog.
Organizational Theory, Design, and Change (7th ed.)
by Gareth R. Jones I got a good price on this textbook even though it seems to be the current edition. Seems like an interesting subject.
by Gareth R. Jones I got a good price on this textbook even though it seems to be the current edition. Seems like an interesting subject.
Finished Reading
| Title and Author (Series) | Finished | |
| The Movie Book by DK | 17-Apr-18 | |
| [A fellow SWG YA writer's project] by [Fellow SWG YA Writer] | 03-Apr-18 | |
| Not out of Hate
by Ma Ma Lay | 30-Mar-18 | |
| A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle | 15-Mar-18 | |
| Beloved
by Toni Morrison | 12-Mar-18 | |
| The Third Eye (Tara Trilogy 1) by Mahtab Narsimhan | 07-Mar-18 | |
| Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines / Predator Cities / Hungry Cities Chronicles 1) by Philip Reeve | 04-Mar-18 | |
| Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, translated by Tulachandra | 02-Mar-18 | |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 18-Feb-18 | |
| Photographically Speaking by David duChemin | 07-Feb-18 | |
| Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames
by Luis D'Antin Van Rooten | 27-Jan-18 | |
| King Rat (Asian Saga 1) by James Clavell | 26-Jan-18 | |
| The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber 5) by Cao Xueqin, edited by Gao E, translated by John Minford | 14-Jan-18 | |
| Dream of the Red Chamber by Christine Sun, illustrated by Shirley Chiang | 14-Jan-18 | |
| The Debt of Tears (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber 4) by Cao Xueqin, edited by Gao E, translated by John Minford | 02-Jan-18 |
15 books finished so far.
4,202 pages in the selected books (an average of about 280 pages each).
That's an average of about 24 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 7 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 15 books (or 4,213 pages) per year. Or
12 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 0.
Fiction books: 12 (80%)
Non-fiction books: 3 (20%)
