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bedlamsbard) wrote2019-01-01 06:31 pm
bedlamsbard) wrote2019-01-01 06:31 pm
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so I read a few books in 2018
First day of the year means closing out the previous year’s reading spreadsheet and setting up the new year’s, which is my one really big ritualistic new year’s thing – since I’m on an academic calendar I always feel like the year is ending and renewing itself at the beginning and end of the semester, so the end of the calendar year doesn’t usually mean that much for me.
So, 2018, in books:
This is the first year that I've read no nonfiction for fun -- there was one originally, but I pulled it off the list since (a) I didn't finish it (it was a reread) and (b) I ended up using it for a school assignment. I'm a little surprised, but not too much -- as a grad student I do a lot of reading, and given that most of the nonfiction I would otherwise read is history, I don't actually want to do it for fun when I'm also doing it for school.
I don’t track academic reading – I’ve tried, but academic reading is such a weird fish I feel strange tracking it alongside for-fun reading. I actually used to track weekly and daily page count, but stopped when I switched over to doing most of my reading in ebooks. This is, I believe, the eighth year I’ve been doing these – the files on this computer only go back to 2012, but I’m pretty sure I started in 2010.
So, you know. I read a few books. I try not to set too many reading goals since I mostly read for comfort (thus why so many of these are rereads), but I would really like to crack 200 this year. (Not counting my graduate reading lists, since I’m doing my comps this year and those will be at least 200 books and probably more.)
So, 2018, in books:
- 184 books read
- 110 comics (though I count singles and trades in the same spreadsheet, which skews the numbers)
- 45 short stories/novellas (if it was published on its own like Murderbot I count it under books, it’s a bit of an arbitrary distinction with some)
- 14 audiobooks
- Month with most books read: December (29).
- Runners-up: June (28) and January (27)
- Month with least books read: October (6)
- Runners-up: September and February (7 each) and April (8).
- 27 new to me books, 157 rereads.
This is the first year that I've read no nonfiction for fun -- there was one originally, but I pulled it off the list since (a) I didn't finish it (it was a reread) and (b) I ended up using it for a school assignment. I'm a little surprised, but not too much -- as a grad student I do a lot of reading, and given that most of the nonfiction I would otherwise read is history, I don't actually want to do it for fun when I'm also doing it for school.
I don’t track academic reading – I’ve tried, but academic reading is such a weird fish I feel strange tracking it alongside for-fun reading. I actually used to track weekly and daily page count, but stopped when I switched over to doing most of my reading in ebooks. This is, I believe, the eighth year I’ve been doing these – the files on this computer only go back to 2012, but I’m pretty sure I started in 2010.
So, you know. I read a few books. I try not to set too many reading goals since I mostly read for comfort (thus why so many of these are rereads), but I would really like to crack 200 this year. (Not counting my graduate reading lists, since I’m doing my comps this year and those will be at least 200 books and probably more.)