I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 1855 books since then (about 92 books per year).
Below is the list for this year. See complete list.
Currently Reading
1984
by George Orwell I know I've read this book before, but it's not in my records, so it must have been before 1999. I wanted to re-read it because I wanted to examine the role of Newspeak in the dystopian society depicted by the book. Also, I just read another famous book by Orwell (Burmese Days). Earlier this year I read another famous dystopia (Brave New World).
by George Orwell I know I've read this book before, but it's not in my records, so it must have been before 1999. I wanted to re-read it because I wanted to examine the role of Newspeak in the dystopian society depicted by the book. Also, I just read another famous book by Orwell (Burmese Days). Earlier this year I read another famous dystopia (Brave New World).
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 | |
| Lu Xun and Evolution by James Reeve Pusey | 18-Jun-18 | |
| We Love Tiong Bahru (We Love Neighbourhoods 2) by Urban Sketchers Singapore | 12-Jun-18 | |
| Burmese Days
by George Orwell | 08-Jun-18 | |
| Many Waters (Time 4) by Madeleine L'Engle | 03-Jun-18 | |
| A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time 3) by Madeleine L'Engle | 30-May-18 | |
| A Wrinkle in Time (Time 1) by Madeleine L'Engle | 29-May-18 | |
| A Wind in the Door (Time 2) by Madeleine L'Engle | 29-May-18 | |
| The Good Earth (The House of Earth 1) by Pearl S. Buck | 27-May-18 | |
| How We Learn
by Benedict Carey | 23-May-18 | |
| Time Jumpers (Five Kingdoms 5) by Brandon Mull | 18-May-18 | |
| Death Weavers (Five Kingdoms 4) by Brandon Mull | 15-May-18 | |
| A Room with a View by E.M. Forster | 12-May-18 | |
| Crystal Keepers (Five Kingdoms 3) by Brandon Mull | 07-May-18 | |
| Rogue Knight (Five Kingdoms 2) by Brandon Mull | 02-May-18 | |
| Sky Raiders (Five Kingdoms 1) by Brandon Mull | 25-Apr-18 | |
| The Fugitive
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels | 23-Apr-18 | |
| 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 (Time 1) 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 |
31 books finished so far.
8,994 pages in the selected books (an average of about 290 pages each).
That's an average of about 11 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 5 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 31 books (or 9,018 pages) per year. Or
25 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 1.
Fiction books: 25 (81%)
Non-fiction books: 6 (19%)
