I read a lot. I've been keeping a book log since the beginning of 1999. I've read 2018 books since then (about 89 books per year).
Below is the list for this year. See complete list.
Currently Reading
Slumdog Millionaire
by Vikas Swarup Saw the movie years ago.
by Vikas Swarup Saw the movie years ago.
The Complete Eh, Goondu!
by Sylvia Toh Paik Choo This is a list of Singlish words and phrases with explanations, grouped into chapters.
by Sylvia Toh Paik Choo This is a list of Singlish words and phrases with explanations, grouped into chapters.
Finished Reading
| Title and Author (Series) | Finished | |
| For the People [manuscript] by Adeetee Bhide | 31-Oct-20 | |
| Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 29-Oct-20 | |
| Passionate Persistence [manuscript] by Eve Sprunt | 26-Oct-20 | |
| Singapore at Random
by Editions Didier Millet | 26-Oct-20 | |
| Olivia & Sophia
by Rosie Milne | 23-Oct-20 | |
| Meet Me on the Queen Elizabeth 2
by Catherine Lim | 11-Oct-20 | |
| Spiaking Singlish
by Gwee Li Sui | 10-Oct-20 | |
| Watership Down by Richard Adams | 08-Oct-20 | |
| And Lately, The Sun (Advance Review Copy) by Calyx Create Group | 30-Sep-20 | |
| The Death Cure (The Maze Runner 3) by James Dashner | 25-Sep-20 | |
| The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner 2) by James Dashner | 24-Sep-20 | |
| The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner 1) by James Dashner | 22-Sep-20 | |
| The Red Queen by Matt Ridley | 20-Sep-20 | |
| Unlearning Singlish by Andrew Melcher | 17-Sep-20 | |
| The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5) by Rick Riordan | 10-Sep-20 | |
| The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians 4) by Rick Riordan | 08-Sep-20 | |
| The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians 3) by Rick Riordan | 07-Sep-20 | |
| The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians 2) by Rick Riordan | 05-Sep-20 | |
| Sounds and Sins of Singlish and Other Nonsense
by Rex Shelley | 04-Sep-20 | |
| The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1) by Rick Riordan | 03-Sep-20 | |
| English in New Cultural Contexts
by Marshall Cavendish | 02-Sep-20 | |
| Nature via Nurture
by Matt Ridley | 04-Aug-20 | |
| Book of Humour
by Rewa Mirpuri | 02-Aug-20 | |
| Fridays with Philip
by Philip Lee | 22-Jul-20 | |
| Ralisea
by China Mieville | 20-Jul-20 | |
| Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker | 18-Jul-20 | |
| Singapore English
by David Deterding | 17-Jul-20 | |
| Gratitude
by Oliver Sacks | 09-Jul-20 | |
| Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami | 09-Jul-20 | |
| A Bird's Eye View of Singapore
by Macaw | 09-Jul-20 | |
| The English Language in Singapore
by William Crewe (editor) | 09-Jul-20 | |
| Emily of Emerald Hill
by Stella Kon | 02-Jul-20 | |
| Straight and Crooked Thinking
by Robert H. Thouless | 28-Jun-20 | |
| The Flogging of Singapore
by Asad Latif | 07-Jun-20 | |
| From Singlish to English by Christian Chua | 05-Jun-20 | |
| Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand, edited by Harry Binswanger and Leonard Peikoff | 04-Jun-20 | |
| Singlish to English: Basic Grammar Guide
by VJ Times | 03-Jun-20 | |
| The Caning of Michael Fay by Gopal Baratham | 22-May-20 | |
| Don Quixote
by Cervantes (translated by P.A. Motteux) | 18-May-20 | |
| Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett | 05-Apr-20 | |
| 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
by Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis | 29-Mar-20 | |
| Educated by Tara Westover | 23-Mar-20 | |
| The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge | 22-Mar-20 | |
| Asian Proverbs
by FormAsia | 21-Mar-20 | |
| Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics
by Peter Ladefoged | 21-Mar-20 | |
| The Heartsick Diaspora
by Elaine Chiew | 08-Mar-20 | |
| The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction
by edited by Susan Hunger and Ray Wallace | 04-Mar-20 | |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi | 21-Feb-20 | |
| You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas | 13-Feb-20 | |
| Troublemaker
by Andrew Clements | 27-Jan-20 | |
| How to Train Your Dragon
(How to Train Your Dragon 1) by Cressida Cowell | 27-Jan-20 | |
| Nimita's Place by Akshita Nanda | 26-Jan-20 | |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (intro by E.B. Greenwood, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude) | 16-Jan-20 |
53 books finished so far.
14,393 pages in the selected books (an average of about 271 pages each).
That's an average of about 6 days per book (assuming no overlap)
or 8 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration),
which is equivalent to 52 books (or 14,392 pages) per year. Or
39 pages per day, actually.
Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 1.
Fiction books: 25 (47%)
Non-fiction books: 28 (53%)
