How Many Books Have You Read So far In 2009 ?

[Armyknife]

Leaving aside technical material/manuals, I think I may have completely read about 3 books sofar this year.




Theres a huge pile of books I'm partway through/given up on/forgotten what I've already read etc. 


* I thought about making the poll ' how many books have you read in the last year' but figured a post Xmas 2008/1st January start would allow better recollection of what you've recently read.

[MadImmortalMan]

Leaving aside technical material/manuals, I think I may have completely read about 3 books sofar this year.




Theres a huge pile of books I'm partway through/given up on/forgotten what I've already read etc. 


* I thought about making the poll ' how many books have you read in the last year' but figured a post Xmas 2008/1st January start would allow better recollection of what you've recently read.

Twelve.

[merithyn]

I read - on average - one book a week. I am rarely without a book or three that I'm working my way through. So, I voted 26-50 figuring that there were some rough weeks this year where I couldn't concentrate long enough for a book to hold my attention. I doubt that I could name all that I've read, though.

Interestingly, the school where I work is having a reading contest. We were asked in the first week of school to put down our pledge for the year of how many books we would try to read. I wrote 50, figuring about 1 book every 4-5 days. Apparently, I'm the only one who was so ambitious. Most people put down 10-15.

[Grey Fox]

28 in French
2 in English

I read alot apparently.

[MadImmortalMan]

Lately I have found the ability to fall asleep rather quickly at night. This is a skill I have NEVER had before---I always had to read for an hour or two before I could sleep. So my reading volume has dropped significantly in the last six months or so. I wonder if it will last...

[Eddie Teach]

Prolly around 10.

[Fireblade]

at least 50 so far. But I work in a library, and usually read books while I'm smoking hookah, so I go through books rather quickly.

I just wish books weren't so damned expensive. After I pay all my bills, it usually comes to a choice between buying books and buying booze.. and booze usually wins. 

[ulmont]

I just wish books weren't so damned expensive. After I pay all my bills, it usually comes to a choice between buying books and buying booze.. and booze usually wins. 

Yeah.  There was a time when my budget worked out to one-third rent, one-third books, and one-third "other."

[BuddhaRhubarb]

It's a slow year for me only about maybe 12-15. Should be more like 30-40 usually by this time of year. when I left Japan I gave away 300+ books that I had read in the 3 years there, some of them twice.

[DisturbedPervert]

Haven't kept track.  Maybe a few dozen, maybe less, who knows.

[DGuller]

If I don't count poker books or actuarial study material, I think it's two or three.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Read and finished:
Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef and By Schism Rent Asunder
Prachett's Guards! Guards!
And I know I'm forgetting some.

I'm on the last chapter of Gaiman & Prachett's Good Omens, and I finished Korea Old and New: A History, but I didn't read it cover to cover.

[Agelastus]

I think I've read between 26-50 books so far this year.

If you added up all the parts I've re-read from various previously read books I've picked up for a few minutes pleasure, probably twice that.

When I was eight or so, my mother gave me a thousand page book she thought would stall me for a month (and shut me up, and stop me raiding her bookshelves for things like Dune or Dragonflight.) I had to go to school of course, but it still took me less than 10 days.

I've got worse since then...

[HisMajestyBOB]

I think I've read between 26-50 books so far this year.

If you added up all the parts I've re-read from various previously read books I've picked up for a few minutes pleasure, probably twice that.

When I was eight or so, my mother gave me a thousand page book she thought would stall me for a month (and shut me up, and stop me raiding her bookshelves for things like Dune or Dragonflight.) I had to go to school of course, but it still took me less than 10 days.

I've got worse since then...

I used to be the same way, but I find myself reading less and less often these days.
I blame the internet.

[Agelastus]

I used to be the same way, but I find myself reading less and less often these days.
I blame the internet.

Does fanfiction count? I'm up at 6am in the morning because I have just finished a 118000 word Battlestar Galactica 2003/Battletech crossover (or rather, finished all of it that's been written.)