Monday, January 07, 2013

2011 and 2012 books, by the numbers. And a strong start.

Total books read in 2011: 11
Total pages read in 2011: 3758 (average of 7.55 pages per day)
2011 book I couldn't even finish: Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen

Total books read in 2012: 16
Total pages read in 2012: 6,880 (average of 18.79 pages per day)

Total books read so far in 2013: 3
Total pages read in 2013: 1083 (average of 154.71 pages per day)

Best books read in 2012:
A Rumor of War, by Philip Caputo
Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
(I wonder what it says about me that the two best I could find on my list are both about war?) 
 Worst books read in 2012:
Song of Susannah (Dark Tower VI), by Stephen King
(and another which I'm too nice to list here. You can email me to ask.)
 2012 longest book: Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Triology, by Ken Follett (985 pages)
2012 shortest book: Down to Earth: People of Appalachia, by Kenneth Murray (125 pages)

2012 book I couldn't even finish:  House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods, by Alexander von Hoffman

Books on deck (as in, already on the to-be-read shelf):
Winter of the World, by Ken Follett
Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies, by Eric Freed
Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2, by Abigail Alling & Mark Nelson
The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, by Jane Poynter
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams



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