Eat 50 books a year?
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skorpionuk). I'm not sure I can be bothered to find the time to write reviews of most of the books I read, but I was interested to know if I read more or less than their target of 50 books per year. Initially it seems like a low number, then you express it as basically one per week and you wonder if it's that low after all.
The stuff I've bought or read in the last few months tends to be piled on top of my bookcases (due to never quite having enough space for all the books I own) so I figured it should be fairly easy to list at least most of the stuff I've read since the summer...
Books I have read in the last month or two, in no particular order:
Babel-17 - Samuel Delaney
Blood Music - Greg Bear (novel based on a short story which I've read a few times before)
Nova Swing - M John Harrison (much better than the last thing of his I read (and wrote a rather scathing review of on here), but still not particularly good (imho - ymmv))
The Evolution Man - Roy Lewis
Press Send - John McLaren
Soft - Rupert Thomson
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
Winds of Fate - Mercedes Lackey
Winds of Change - Mercedes Lackey
Winds of Fury - Mercedes Lackey
Dervish is Digital - Pat Cadigan
Fat - Rob Grant
Capacity - Tony Ballantyne
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - Robert Heinlein (re-read numerous times)
Time For The Stars - Robert Heinlein (also re-read many times, although not as many as the above)
Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson (re-read several times)
Virtual Light - William Gibson (re-read lots of times)
Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke
The Space Merchants - Pohl and Kornbluth
The three Mercedes Lackey books were loaned to me byromauld, and several of the others were a gift from indusbitch - many thanks :)
Most of the rest were bought by me in the first week of September using some of my birthday money (except the ones I've noted as being re-read). As most of the new ones were at the bottom of the pile, I think that dates this chunk of reading fairly accurately.
Oh, I also re-read the Lensmen series last month, that's another seven I think. So... total, about 25-30, by the time you factor in a few that I've probably re-shelved and forgotten re-reading.
I think I've been reading more these last few months than the six months before, but I'm fairly happy about that... I think I'm back to normal levels for me now, after a confusing period where I was reading a lot less. Not sure what happened to cause that, nor what changed it back again.
50_in_07 (via a post by skorpionuk). I'm not sure I can be bothered to find the time to write reviews of most of the books I read, but I was interested to know if I read more or less than their target of 50 books per year. Initially it seems like a low number, then you express it as basically one per week and you wonder if it's that low after all.The stuff I've bought or read in the last few months tends to be piled on top of my bookcases (due to never quite having enough space for all the books I own) so I figured it should be fairly easy to list at least most of the stuff I've read since the summer...
Books I have read in the last month or two, in no particular order:
Babel-17 - Samuel Delaney
Blood Music - Greg Bear (novel based on a short story which I've read a few times before)
Nova Swing - M John Harrison (much better than the last thing of his I read (and wrote a rather scathing review of on here), but still not particularly good (imho - ymmv))
The Evolution Man - Roy Lewis
Press Send - John McLaren
Soft - Rupert Thomson
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
Winds of Fate - Mercedes Lackey
Winds of Change - Mercedes Lackey
Winds of Fury - Mercedes Lackey
Dervish is Digital - Pat Cadigan
Fat - Rob Grant
Capacity - Tony Ballantyne
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - Robert Heinlein (re-read numerous times)
Time For The Stars - Robert Heinlein (also re-read many times, although not as many as the above)
Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson (re-read several times)
Virtual Light - William Gibson (re-read lots of times)
Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke
The Space Merchants - Pohl and Kornbluth
The three Mercedes Lackey books were loaned to me by
romauld, and several of the others were a gift from indusbitch - many thanks :)Most of the rest were bought by me in the first week of September using some of my birthday money (except the ones I've noted as being re-read). As most of the new ones were at the bottom of the pile, I think that dates this chunk of reading fairly accurately.
Oh, I also re-read the Lensmen series last month, that's another seven I think. So... total, about 25-30, by the time you factor in a few that I've probably re-shelved and forgotten re-reading.
I think I've been reading more these last few months than the six months before, but I'm fairly happy about that... I think I'm back to normal levels for me now, after a confusing period where I was reading a lot less. Not sure what happened to cause that, nor what changed it back again.
