Reading in 2005
Dec. 31st, 2005 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desayunoencamaI seem to have read 189 books (fiction or non-fiction; not included in this tally are books of poetry) in 2005. (Actually, I had to read Ralf König's WIE DE KARNICKEL--157 pgs--a few times, even though I'd already read the Spanish translation last year, since I had to go over the English translation for readability and compare it to both the German and Spanish editions, and then read it again to make sure it was laid out properly... So maybe it should be 190 books total?)
This is quite a bit higher than previous years, which seem to have been 153 in 2004, 164 in 2003, and 143 in 2002. Seeing how little I actually wrote/published this year (see previous post) is probably related; more "down" time (especially in the first part of the year when so many books of mine got cancelled). Looking at the month-by-month breakdown, I seem to read more in winter months, and there are also periodic drops in reading rate when I am traveling heavily.
January subtotal 33
February subtotal 19
March subtotal 13
April subtotal 11
May subtotal 26
June subtotal 10
July subtotal 7
Aug subtotal 21
Sep subtotal 13
Oct subtotal 7
Nov subtotal 15
Dec subtotal 14
Most-read authors in 2005
12 Charlotte MacLeod
11 Dorothy Gilman
8 Donald Westlake
7 Donna Leon
7 Octavia Butler
7 Holly Black
5 Henning Mankell
5 Sharon Shinn
4 Sara Paretsky
4 Elizabeth A. Lynn
3 Marian Keyes
3 Charlaine Harris
3 Lawrence Block
3 Elizabeth Bear
3 Alexander McCall Smith
3 Guy Gavriel Kay
Breakdown by author gender:
Male author: 59.5 books
Female author: 129.5 books
(The halves comes from George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle's WINDHAVEN.)
By genre, I read overwhelmingly more mysteries than anything else this year.
Some of my favorite books of the year come from authors who I read only a single title by this year (not always through lack of trying to find more work by them!) like Dodie Smith's I CAPTURE THE CASTLE or Naomi Mitchison's TRAVEL LIGHT or Megan Whalen Turner's THE THIEF.
This is quite a bit higher than previous years, which seem to have been 153 in 2004, 164 in 2003, and 143 in 2002. Seeing how little I actually wrote/published this year (see previous post) is probably related; more "down" time (especially in the first part of the year when so many books of mine got cancelled). Looking at the month-by-month breakdown, I seem to read more in winter months, and there are also periodic drops in reading rate when I am traveling heavily.
January subtotal 33
February subtotal 19
March subtotal 13
April subtotal 11
May subtotal 26
June subtotal 10
July subtotal 7
Aug subtotal 21
Sep subtotal 13
Oct subtotal 7
Nov subtotal 15
Dec subtotal 14
Most-read authors in 2005
12 Charlotte MacLeod
11 Dorothy Gilman
8 Donald Westlake
7 Donna Leon
7 Octavia Butler
7 Holly Black
5 Henning Mankell
5 Sharon Shinn
4 Sara Paretsky
4 Elizabeth A. Lynn
3 Marian Keyes
3 Charlaine Harris
3 Lawrence Block
3 Elizabeth Bear
3 Alexander McCall Smith
3 Guy Gavriel Kay
Breakdown by author gender:
Male author: 59.5 books
Female author: 129.5 books
(The halves comes from George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle's WINDHAVEN.)
By genre, I read overwhelmingly more mysteries than anything else this year.
Some of my favorite books of the year come from authors who I read only a single title by this year (not always through lack of trying to find more work by them!) like Dodie Smith's I CAPTURE THE CASTLE or Naomi Mitchison's TRAVEL LIGHT or Megan Whalen Turner's THE THIEF.
