How many books did you read this year?


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legend29 is online now legend29 Post #21  January 2,2011, 6:52am
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[quote=adelinesattic;1227336]I love the idea of keeping track of what you've read; Red from Texas, I think stated this. Might just be a New Years Res.: to keep aware of where I've been! I have no idea how many I've gone through; oh my, just did rudimentary multiplication; I need to get out more. Twelve to sixteen a month; times it by, well you know. I love books, since I was a child; escape, wonder fantasy. Books. Are we supposed to give reviews?!

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As a budding writer, I keep a journal of every book I read...with thoughts and reflections....it becomes my notes if I need to remember something important I've read.

I do need to read more fiction...which I am trying to do. I started a list of the classics and have made it through Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" and I reread Little Women and some of Richard Wright's books. I am working my way through the Jane Austen books...slow reading...but I'm muddling through.

Now, if I can just read a bit of poetry I'd be a more well-rounded reader.

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Since my job is being eliminated due to new technology in the next year or two, I've mostly been reading a few different types of career and life change books. Nothing too fascinating. And I can't read on the job (unless I finish my route early), but I can listen to audiobooks, so I finally got around to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. BUT...

My honey gave me a Kindle for Christmas. Yea! Okay, I told him outright that was what I wanted, and he, being a Good Man, complied. I already have about 75 books downloaded, everything fromThe Scarlet Letter to The Lord of the Flies to Einstein's Sidelights on Relativity. I'll probably download whichever Jen Lancaster book I'm missing the next time I go ebook shopping. My taste is fairly eclectic.

I started with The Missing Class: A Portrait of the Near Poor in America, which I was really looking forward to reading. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in the book. It was fairly biased and never seemed to point out the parts in the lives of the subjects where they held any responsibility at all.

Now I'm reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, about the history and source of the HeLa cells. So far, I'm happy with the book, but I was only a few pages in when my boyfriend's movie ended and we decided to call it a night. More today, I'm sure.
 
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I joined the website Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia a few years ago to keep track of what I read, what I want to read, and to see what other people have read. I'm little disappointed to see on there that I finished about 30 books this past year. It is a mixture of poetry, nonfiction, and contemporary fiction, Like others on here, I'm usually reading a few at the same time, and some especially anthologies or lengthier works like a collection of letters between Bishop and Lowell that I read quite slowly.
 
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