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books in june
Lots of audiobooks because lots of biking and swimming. Only three non-Austen-esque novels.
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books in may
Twelve titles and 2,193 pages for May compared to 23 and 8,623 in April, an equation of minus Poldark, plus travel, plus illness, plus uninvited houseguest. Only four were text. One I read on the...
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books in April
Whenever I watched the BBC/PBS “Poldark,” I read the first book and liked it more than I expected. Set in Cornwall in 1890, it had to be good, but I expected something along the lines of Thorn Birds:...
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books in March
Via Storygraph. Not yet biking or gardening season, quite, so I didn’t listen to much. My book-learnin’ is also off. I did like the only (non-trash) novel I read all month.
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books in February
This has not been a good been a good winter for reading. I did love the Adam Johnson and T-Bone Burnett. And Helen Macdonald and Heather Cox Richardson and Hare With Amber Eyes and Safekeep. What...
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books in January
Two good novels and a third one. I took over a week to read Sonia and Sunny and hours to read Animals in That Country (the third one, which benefited from being a fast read). Beasts of the Sea was as...
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In 2025, I finished 116 titles of fiction and nonfiction, 18 children’s books, and 15 other titles in 47,000 pages. I failed my goal not more than 50% of pages in audio (28% of fiction and 74% of...
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Exercise: By foot I traveled 1,400 miles, 438 as deliberate exercise. I ran five miles allinarowwithoutstopping eight times. Distance and pace averaged just over 4 miles and about 4.5 mph or 13:26 per...
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Exercise: By foot I traveled 1500 miles, 400 as deliberate exercise. I swam 167k, biked 1,125 miles on Solovey and 460 on Thidwick. I considered my recovery from the loss of vitality and velleity in...
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I exceeded my goal of 50,000 pages by almost 7%, met the goal of 75% of those being novels, collections, plays, and narrative nonfiction (86%), and failed the goal of not more than 40% pages in audio...
View Articlebookriot’s 2023 reading challenge
This year I forgave myself for not fulfilling, or even trying to fulfill, all the reading challenges I have undertaken previously, or completing the only one I attempted, Book Riot‘s Read Harder. I...
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Bike 1500 miles. The closest I ever got was 1488 in 2018. As of late August: Unlikely. Swim 100k. This shouldn’t be a problem, because last year I swam 160K and over 100 the two years before that. As...
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reading 2023
For (I think) the first time, I set a quantitative reading goal. I did so in opposition to Goodreads, which allows a user to set a target only of titles, not of pages or any other quantitative metric,...
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In 2022, I read 116 novels, collections, and regular nonfiction, 11 other adult titles, and 10 children’s books. Of the ~150 books I mapped in January, by the end of December I had read about half. Of...
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I read less this year than last. I read less this year than any year since 2013. I read 126 adult books, 26 other adult titles, and 17 children’s books. Of the 152 adult books, 81 or 53% were fiction....
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This year I allowed inspiration from but not obedience to Book Riot‘s Read Harder challenge and the Reading Women challenge, and I slotted books into Popsugar‘s as happenstance allowed. I drew from my...
View Articlethe year in books: 2020
In 2020, I read 205 books, 185 adult and 20 juvenile, at an average of 171 pages a day. Of the 245 books I sketch-planned through January to read in 2020, I read 162 or about two-thirds. I front-loaded...
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After reading Between the World and Me in 2015, I added Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recommendations for further reading to my lifelist. In May and June of 2020 I added texts from other sources, including Ibram...
View Articlea year in exercise: 2020
This year, I registered no exercise on 66 days, only three more than 2019, which is better than I expected. The foot thing was a nuisance, but a silver lining to quarantine is that over these past...
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gantt, 2018
I don’t have graphing software other than Excel, so this is what I came up with. The y-axis is pages per day, with spikes for particularly compelling or easy books and for graphic books, which combine...
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