Disclaimer: I am not posting this because I think this will be even remotely interesting to anyone else. I just feel compelled to, probably because I just spent like five minutes doing math (!!!) and I want to let you all know it.
So as this is January 1, 2009 (TOTALLY just put 8 on accident for the first time this new year), I got to look back on my reading accomplishments from 2008 and it was very exciting to me. So as you probably know, I keep track of what books I read and how many pages, etc: so I finally got to tally it all up from 2008, and since I started doing this in 2007, I got the added bonus of comparing my stats to the previous year's stats! VERY interesting! I know you all are holding your breaths wondering about the outcome. So here it is: 2008 in Books
Total Books Read: 58 (up 8 books from 2007)
Total Pages Read: 18,347 (up 2,334 pages from 2007)
Average Pages read per Day: 50.3 (up 6.4 pages from 2007)
And this was not a part of my "official" tally, but I just got curious (even though I probably don't want to actually know), so I'm going to do some math real quick and give you all a little interesting tidbit for the 2008 reading year.
Total Romance Novels Read: 21 (up 12 from 2007)
Wow! That was WAY more embarrassing than I thought it would be! (side note: I did NOT know how to spell "embarrass" right there. I had to take like 5 minutes to look it up. Who knew there were two r's?! That was the last thing I would have guessed I was doing wrong in that word). But seriously, I sincerely wish I hadn't counted those figures up just now. But interestingly enough, I didn't read any romance novels during the summer besides like the week before school started back up again. That makes absolutely no sense to me at all. But whatever!
Well - if you actually read this post, I'm impressed. And I'm curious if any of the rest of you have any 2008 reading stats that you would like to share.
On a final note: I hope 2009 is a good reading year for everyone - and may all of your book stats increase from 2008 (that's one of my goals for 2009, so I'm assuming you mare share it).
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Here's to 2009 in Books! (/needless information)
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I Did read this post. Good for you, not that i was surprised. Maaybe you didn't read many the summer because you were busy exploring a foreign country and not wasting away in lilburn like certain one of us.
Oh- and as a side reading note- when is the new reading list for the book club going to be made? I need to know what I should be working on for January, other than Tess that is.
Also- I wanted to say a BIG Happy Birthday to the Salon since it was apparently concieved on the first of last year- a true new years baby.
Happy Birthday Salon!
We should have a soiree or something to celebrate a year in blogging.
we definitely should celebrate, and I'll get the book list up on sunday. The January topic is "something new" once again, and the book is "the Maltese Falcon" or anything else veers from your usual reads.
ditto on the soiree idea. the salon deserves a first bday celebration! maybe sunday? or some day early next week?
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