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How many books have you read in 2012?

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CandyLoo · 23/12/2012 15:32

I posted a thread some weeks ago asking when and how you find the time to read. Thanks for your replies. I'm been reading more since then but am wondering just how many books you've read in the last year?
I've read 12.

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Yika · 24/12/2012 21:54

Nil, none, zip, zero. For 40 years an avid reader. Had dc 2 years ago. Read one book the first year, not a single one the second. I miss it!

FlyOverTheMistletoe · 24/12/2012 21:51

not enough - but next year will read more Xmas Smile

CoteDAzur · 24/12/2012 21:41

36 so far.

EuroShagmore · 24/12/2012 19:44

27 on my Kindle plus maybe 5 others?

juneybean · 24/12/2012 13:32

101 but I don't think I'll beat that next year, I read a few series books which were usually between 200-300 pages

Mrsrudolphduvall · 24/12/2012 13:29

About 80.
I have lots to read over Christmas!,,

overtheseatocalais · 24/12/2012 12:54

Candyloo - My favourite books are a real mix, I like modern detective fiction, particularly Simon Brett, Sue Grafton, Stieg Larsson, Ann Cleeves, classics such as Austen, HE Bates, F Scott Fitzgerald and Stella Gibbons and some more 'light' reads by Miranda Dickenson, Sopie Kinsella and Catherine Alliot etc. I tend to read a classic interspersed with a crime drama and then 2 or 3 lighter reads.

myalias · 24/12/2012 10:10

15 books - 12 of them have been on my Kindle which I had as a present in August.

BabysPointlessPocket · 24/12/2012 10:02

Ds 2 was born in January this year. So nowhere near as many as i usually read, 3 or 4 I think. Before ds2 it was roughly 2 a week. But read to ds1 most nights.
Ds2 just tries to grab them out of my hands and chew them. But ds1 was a bookworm like me from day dot.

ILoveOnionRings · 24/12/2012 09:51

110 this year but do read the kindle every night in bed

Arisbottle · 24/12/2012 09:43

22, I am a little dissapointed. However I read quite a lot for work and that is not included.

BabeRuthless · 24/12/2012 09:40

I'm on my 125th (Winter Games by Rachel Johnson, really disappointing so going to try to squeeze another one in as I don't want to end the year on a shit book) I read every spare second I get and have been blessed with being able to read really quickly. No matter how many I read I never feel like I'm making a dent into my to-read pile.

DuchessofMalfi · 24/12/2012 09:11

That sounds interesting hackmum - who's it by?

hackmum · 24/12/2012 08:49

I've read 53. Am on number 54, but as it's 600 pages long (Jerusalem: the biography), not sure I'll finish it before the end of the year.

R2PeePoo · 23/12/2012 19:12

A lot. But I am SAHM with a toddler who occupies himself most of the time and a very messy house.

I finish about four books a week usually so 200 or so?

Onezerozero · 23/12/2012 19:10

Probably about five.

In shame.

Francagoestohollywood · 23/12/2012 19:06
Cherrypi · 23/12/2012 18:52

29 according to goodreads. Better try and fit one more in. I set a target of 25 so quite pleased. I thought becoming a mother would mean I wouldn't get to read much.

Abcinthia · 23/12/2012 17:53

According to Goodreads, 138 books. A few were short books (under 200 pages) that only took a day to read.

But I don't watch a lot of TV in the evenings and fit in reading whenever I can. DD goes to bed at 8pm and I go to bed at 10:30-11:30pm, so a lot of reading can be done.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 23/12/2012 17:50

I don't keep count. But on average, at least 2 a week.

webfizzystuff · 23/12/2012 17:41

I've learnt to be very choosy about kindle books - if its free (and it isn't a classic) there is a reason for it!

DuchessofMalfi · 23/12/2012 17:13

Looking at my total on Goodreads, it says I've read 92 books this year :), although to be fair some of those were books I've read to the DC at bedtime eg Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton (and some Rainbow Magic ones Xmas Shock).

highlandcoo · 23/12/2012 17:12
  1. I decided to keep a note of everything I read this past year .. first time I've done that.

Looking back, I wish I hadn't wasted my time on a few of them - Death in Pemberley springs to mind - also, I belong to three book groups which means I ended up reading some books I wouldn't have chosen and didn't especially enjoy, so I'd like to be more choosy in future.

Next year, I'm going to aim to read more classics and follow authors and themes that interest me. I'd like to read the whole Barchester Towers series and also reread some Edith Wharton, Arnold Bennett and Ivy Compton-Burnett among others.

webfizzystuff · 23/12/2012 17:08

Probably 12 next year as have a masters dissertation to do and that will sap all the joy from reading!

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CandyLoo · 23/12/2012 17:05

Wow webfizzystuff!
And next year? What's your target?

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