How many books this year?
I've always been an avid reader. Oh, well, ok, not quite 'always', from age three, when I actually learned to read.
Books have been and are many things to me: close friends to be kept near, worlds to get lost into,works of wonderful art to be savored a bit at a time, portals to other dimensions (even literally, this one, I taught myself English reading books).
The spotlight on LJ features the 50bookchallenge community, seeing it has prodded me to keep count this year (last time I did, five or six years ago I finished the year at 86, it was really funny to see the faces of the 'book club'folks on the street when their 'how many books you read on average?' was answered). :)
So I got a meter (hope it works) and started counting: at the moment just "Shiba Inus"by Laura Payton (a neat little handbook on a fascinating dog breed, imo), but I think I'll finish 'The Return of the Shadow' today, more on that one later.
1 / 100
(1.0%)
93 / 30,000
(0.3%)
Two meters, actually: book count and page count. Not that I'm planning to read 100 books this year, I thought to give myself some 'space' though.
Good reading to you!
Books have been and are many things to me: close friends to be kept near, worlds to get lost into,works of wonderful art to be savored a bit at a time, portals to other dimensions (even literally, this one, I taught myself English reading books).
The spotlight on LJ features the 50bookchallenge community, seeing it has prodded me to keep count this year (last time I did, five or six years ago I finished the year at 86, it was really funny to see the faces of the 'book club'folks on the street when their 'how many books you read on average?' was answered). :)
So I got a meter (hope it works) and started counting: at the moment just "Shiba Inus"by Laura Payton (a neat little handbook on a fascinating dog breed, imo), but I think I'll finish 'The Return of the Shadow' today, more on that one later.
1 / 100
(1.0%)
93 / 30,000
(0.3%)
Two meters, actually: book count and page count. Not that I'm planning to read 100 books this year, I thought to give myself some 'space' though.
Good reading to you!