reading year in review
Posted on | January 1, 2005 | 2 Comments
One of my New Year’s resolutions last year was to track what I read. I did a pretty good job, although I don’t think I remembered to write down absolutely everything that I read. I listed both manga/graphic novels and books. Here’s a textfile, if you are insanely curious about my reading habits. By my semi-imprecise counting, I think I read 51 books in 2004, and a whopping 99 manga and graphic novels.
I think one of the books that I most enjoyed was The Time Traveler’s Wife. For sci-fi/fantasy fun, I liked reading Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series and Sharon Shinn’s Archangel series. My favorite manga series that I read this past year are Basara and Hot Gimmick. I’m going to miss not having any more books to read by Larry Brown.
I think that for this coming year, I need to slow down my book buying habits and take advantage of the library more. I read plenty of fun chicklit/brain candy books, which is fine, but I’m also going to try to read more literary fiction.
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January 7th, 2005 @ 8:57 pm
Hee hee, we have similar reading tastes once again! Thanks for your list, I think I see some to add to my to-read list for 2005!
No matter how many times I sent an order in last year, I couldn’t get The Grand Tour ordered for our system – so maddening, I’m dying to read it.
Wow, someone else read Azur Like It!
I didn’t know about Strange Bedpersons by Jennifer Crusie, I’ll have to find it.
January 8th, 2005 @ 12:57 am
I bought Azur Like it when I was vacation book shopping in Canada
Strange Bedpersons is EARLY Jennifer Crusie, so it isn’t as good as her later stuff, I thought. But it is still amusing.