new challenges
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 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...
View Article2021 challenges as met
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 Articlereading 2021
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....
View Articlereading 2022
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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