CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Books951
Comics231
Poetry06
Kids33429
Total44517
Slush Pile
I track the books I read for three reasons ( Read more... )

CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Books442
Comics529
Poetry16
Kids34396
Total44465
Slush Pile

What I Read

I finished three letters in the The Dickson Baseball Dictionary: H, I, and J. Some time this month I should pass the 50% mark in that book, which at one page per year still gives me more than a year to reach the end. The only quibble ( Read more... )

CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Books238
Comics024
Poetry15
Kids39362
Total42421
Slush Pile

What I Read

I finished another book of poetry. This one was Grazing by Ira Sadoff. I added Sadoff to my list due to Thank You that was a poem of the day on December 1, 2023. The poems in Grazing were often very explicitly sexual; of the few ( Read more... )

CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Books436
Comics024
Poetry04
Kids36323
Total40387
Slush Pile

What I ReadI read 36 different kids books, which puts Birdie at 783 books toward her "1000 before kindergarten." I think that one is in the bag, frankly. Birdie has been specifically looking for books with bunnies in them as of late, but for me ( Read more... )

CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Books632
Comics424
Poetry14
Kids38287
Total49347
Slush Pile
If I was a really good writer, I'd turn these monthly roundups into a commentary about recent current events with ties to things in my life and other areas of culture. It might also help to actually have a useful critical turn of phrase. I am not ( Read more... )

CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Comics320
Books626
Poetry13
Kids49249
Total59298
Slush Pile

What I Read

My mother is a notoriously difficult person to buy presents for. For her last birthday my wife, knowing that my mother likes romance novels and fantasy novels, suggested that we get her a copy of Fourth Wing, which went viral in 2023 ( Read more... )

CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Comics417
Books120
Poetry12
Kids39200
Total45239
Slush Pile

I started writing this post last Sunday, but I was updating the stats blocks and I realized that my numbers from April couldn't be correct, and then I went down a rabbit hole of recalculating numbers, and the upshot is that I used all my free time ( Read more... )

I've been tracking the number of books I've read for years, so it was only a matter of time until I took the next step and dropped a stat block into these posts.

CategoryFinished This MonthFinished YTD
Comics313
Books419
Poetry01
Kids56161
Total63194
Slush Pile
Even though they still feel quite low by my high school standards, these numbers are ( Read more... )

One of my personal minor problems is that there are so many books out there that I want to read that even if I somehow attained a pace of one book a day it would certainly take far more than a year to read just the books on my slush pile right now today. All of those books are books I have not read. But what about all the books that I've read ( Read more... )

In my inaugural post, I put down all sorts of foundation and backstory. With that done, I hope the February edition of "Stuff I've Been reading" is a tad shorter! In my subsequent 2023 Books in Review I noted some places that I felt I'd missed in my reading. With all that under my belt, how did it go?

What I ReadFirst, comics. I read four more of ( Read more... )