"The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world."
- Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Blog: Year Two

Two years!





Total Books: 36 books (or 3 books every month or .69 books a week.)


  • Fiction: 22 Books (61.1%)
    • Classics - 3
    • Fantasy - 1
    • Literary (Novel) - 4
    • Mystery - 1
    • Science Fiction - 3
    • Short Stories (Non Classic) - 8 
    • Other - 1
  • Non Fiction: 10 Books (27.8%)
    • Essays - 1
    • General Non Fiction - 2
    • History - 2
    • Memoir - 2
    • Science - 3
  • Other: 3 Books
    • Poetry - 3
Best Fiction: Runaway by Alice Munro & Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Best Genre Fiction: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Best Non Fiction: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Best Poetry: Weather Systems by Ted Kooser



Other Stats:
  • 77.8% (28) of the books were written by Americans
  • 80.6%  (29) of the books were written by men
  • 2.7%  (1) book was a translation
  • Physical Books made up 52.8% (19). The rest were audio books.
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  1. kgJanuary 9, 2013 at 8:58 AM

    Read more books written by ladies! Also foreigners. Do ittttt

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    1. SpencerJanuary 9, 2013 at 9:16 AM

      I knowwww!

      But thanks to sheer volume, in absolute terms I still read more books by women and/or non-Americans than most people do.

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