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Best books read in 2010
In 2010, I read 220 books, or about four per week. Eight were audiobooks; two were graphic; 72 were nonfiction; three were volumes of short stories; three were volumes of essays. My mom was the only one who recommended more than one book I ended up reading last year - I can credit seven to her, mostly nonfiction. Twenty-four were gift copies from ( Read more... ) -
CDs of which we have duplicates
Just merged Boyd's and my CD collections. We have about six hundred total, and there is surprisingly little overlap, especially when you ignore the mix CDs we made each other or both got from mutual friends. Here are the discs of which our conjoined collection has two or more copies ( Read more... ) -
2009 in books
I read 241 books this year, a sharp decrease from last year. One hundred ninety of them were text novels; three were graphic novels; 43 were standard nonfiction; two were short-story collections; two were essay collections; and one was graphic nonfiction. Thirteen were audiobooks; two were e-books from Project Gutenberg; one billed itself as the ( Read more... ) -
Help Daisy with her homework
Want to help with my linguistics project? It will take about 5 minutes and can be done online. I'll be asking your opinions about words. I'm looking for native speakers of American English - as many as possible. Please email me, or comment with your email address, if you can help. Thanks! -
2008 in books
I read 332 this year - a new record. I never feel like I'm reading more than the year before, so I don't know how that happens.
13 were audiobooks; the rest I read in print.
Four were volumes of essays: David Foster Wallace, Sloane Crosby, Augusten Burroughs, and an anthology. One was a graphic novel: American Born Chinese. One was a book of ( Read more... ) -
worst day ever
But I still could not resist this book meme, which I've done on email before but never lj. It's from bifemmefatale* Grab the nearest book ( Read more... ) -
meme from bifemmefatale
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions ( Read more... )
