2006 Year in Review

31Dec07

59 books read. Two abandoned. By genre: Children’s – 3 Detective – 4 Drama – 1 Fiction – 21 Comics – 3 Humor – 2 Memoir – 2 Non-Fiction – 15 (counting the non-fiction parts of the Non-Required Reading) Sci-Fi – 7 Short Stories – 4 By grade: 000 0 00000 0000000000 000000000 0000000000 000 [...]

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Updated Histogram

11Oct06

Now that I’ve moved to WordPress, I was able to get last year’s book entries as well, so here’s my grade distribution since January ’05: 1: 2: X 3: XX 4: X 5: XXXXXX 6: XXXXXXXXX 7: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 8: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 9: XXXXXXXXXXXX 10: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I find it very strange that I have more 10s than [...]

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Tags

02Oct06

Per Anthea’s recommendation, I’ve made it so you can see all the books I’ve given a certain grade, as well as the books I’ve read in each genre, by clicking on the category in the sidebar. I think that’s pretty awesome, so thanks Anthea. On the other hand, I had to go back to the [...]

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Award Winners

11Sep06

For my reference, here are the books I’ve read so far this year, and what awards they’ve won. The only legitimate one: Remains of the Day won the Booker Prize. Runaway won the Giller Prize (something Canadian). The Watchmen won an honorary Hugo. Number9Dream was on the Booker shortlist.

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Things Writers Do That I Hate #1-3

01Sep06

I am simultaneously a very picky and a very laid-back reader. I will read almost any genre – romance, sure; western, sure; sci-fi, depends on if I can survive the first ten pages; Tom Clancy (he’s a genre, right?), ditto. I don’t think of myself as a reading snob, and I can’t imagine anyone who [...]

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Goal Update

28Aug06

At the end of last year I posted this on my 2005 book log: Goal the First: Read 52 books. Having been shamed by my failure this year, I’m setting the bar lower. I hope I recapture my reading mojo and breeze by 52, but after this debacle I’d be happy with 52. Goal the [...]

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Eleven Books, Progress

28Aug06

Doing eleven book entries at once? Not fun. On the other hand, I have read some really great stuff recently – lots of 10s. Of course, I give them out like candy, so I’m not sure that says much. Let’s see, I’ve read 38 books (one more is in the can, but not logged yet) [...]

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Reader Guilt

12Apr06

I’ve been reading weird stuff lately – comic books, children’s lit, knitting books (there were a few I didn’t log, since I was literally looking at pictures of socks I could knit and reading the patterns like a psycho). But I am actually doing literary reading too, I promise. I’m halfway through Alice Munro’s Runaway. [...]

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2005 Year in Review

19Feb06

Last year I read only 41 books. Their average rating was 7.6, which is pretty great. Now, some awards: I Don’t Know Why I Stuck It Out As Long As I Did: I started and did not finish 6 books – The Fortress of Solitude, The Waves, To Say Nothing of the Dog, The Plot [...]

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Status Update: The End of the Year; The Beginning of the Year

02Jan06

So this year I read 41 books. This is an all-time low. I think there were two main factors: graduation/bar class/studying for the bar/taking the bar, and the internet. It was a big year, and I was very busy for a lot of it. On the other hand, I often would think about picking up [...]

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Status Update: Oh Dear God

02Jan06

To bring myself up to date, after The Penultimate Peril, my book book reports the following: The Plot Against America Philip Roth Fiction Read from 11/10 – The Fifth Book of Peace Maxine Hong Kingston Fiction, Memoir Read from 12/4 – Hamlet Shakespeare Play Read from 12/15 – So things are quite dire, you see. [...]

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Status Update

05Oct05

So, the year is 75% over, and I’m only at 42% of my 75 books goal. And only 64% to a 50 book year. I’m behind for both: To read 75 books this year, I should be on book 57 (25 books short). To read 50 books this year, I should be on book 38 [...]

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Status Update

04Jun05

I’ve read 13 of the 75 books I plan to read this year. That’s only 17%. I should be at the halfway point, at 38 books. This is not good. Past performance: 16 from March 03 to June 03 (I started the book book in March 03) 43 from June 03 to Dec 03 31 [...]

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