so, does anyone remember that thread from last year....'how many books do you read in a year?'.....well........how many did you??

[psychohohohoho]

cos I read upwards of 70.

I kept a list, most months i read a minimum of 6, sometimes 10!, and some months I forgot to write down any, but adding up, I reckon 70 is about right.

the worst.......Monster Love by carol tolposki.....blurb sounding really good, reality VERY disturbing.

the best......the twilight series by stephenie meyer.......read them all at least twicegrin].

Soooooooooooo.........How about yours, and what was your worst and best??

I didn't count but I read A LOT!

The best - I really enjoyed "Arthur And George," "Notes From An Exhibition" and a couple of who-dunnit types.

The worst - The Daphne Du Maurier one by whatsername Picardie - unreadable / "Sepulchre" by Kate Mosse - lots of others too.

I am hoping that 2009 will be a better year!

70??!!! Bloody hell! I probably read about 12 and thought I was doing well.

Do you read particularly quickly or are you an insomniac or something?

I read a minimum of one a week, but sometimes I read maybe three or four. I'd estimate something like 100-120. DH laughed when I told my estimate, he reckons far more!

I read anywhere and everywhere, always have done. My mother is always telling me about how I used to have a book in the car, a book in the loo, a book in the kitchen and a book in the bedroom, all on the go.

I'm glad I clicked on this thread, what a great idea to keep a list. I have 2 to list for this year already! Do you list them or write something about them too?

I have ead about 15.

I list the books I read and grade them from 1 to 5 and write some comment but usually not much. I am a bit anal like that.

I don't list, or comment - too eager to move onto the next book! I really, really wish I was disciplined enough to do it though. I probably read a minimum of 100 books a year, although some will be re-reads.

I'm going to start list making. Fab idea.

I never kept a list until the thread last year that ased, and so I actually went and bought myself a special book to eep said list in.

I do read quickly.....if it is a REALLY god book I can read it in a day, two if a big book, and I often MN until late and then go read until sleepy.

oh, and I have to go on the school-run at least help hour before the end of school, which helps too.

DH reckons 70 is not close to my written list either llareggub !

I usually read about 3 or 4 a week. I don't keep track, but I go to the library every Monday morning and take out 4 for the week.

but summerc.....that makes roughly 200!!!

WOW

I think somewhere around 300 would be about right. Possibly more. I am like Llareggub and read all the time, quite indiscriminately. A lot of the books are comfort reads - you know, books that you've read countless times but still make you feel warm. Possibly that's another thread though.

My favourite book of the year was the Book Thief, I think, although A Thousand Splendid Suns was good as well.

Oh yes, comfort reading. I have lots of comfort books. Daddy Long Legs is an old, old favourite. I think I've read it 100 or so times since I first read it as a child.

I've just finished a spate of Mitford connected books and found myself muttering Mitford girl type words in my mind.

Oh I LOVE "Daddy Long Legs" - I've never met anybody else who has heard of it!

I have a secret hankering to call my yet-to-born daughter Jerusha! I think I had my first crush on Daddy Long Legs. I do believe it was the first book that made me howl with tears.

Lol. I liked all the little spidery drawings in it too.

12 - all for book group

a lot more before i had to read for work

I read Daddy Long legs as a teenager - I wonder where all those books went! I'm thinking of doing a re-read of all the Noel Streatfeild, Joan Aiken et al books I enjoyed so much between about 9-13, it was such a happy time.

I read every night and on the train every day... and I live with an English academic so we have a lot of books around! I particularly enjoyed this year - Goodbye to Berlin. Mein Jahrhundert, The end of the Affair and Neverwhere. Didn't like Raven's Gate or Atonement (the latter I thought I liked while I was reading it but then the end was dreadful, IMO).

I read a lot too. I either get my books from the libary or charity shops. There is no point me buying from new, as I read them too quick.
Last year, I read 305 books, in my defence dh works permenant nights, and my kids are all in bed by 9.

psychohohohoho I obviously didn't do the math before I replied. Now I sounds like a lunatic shut-in with no life, don't I??!! LOL

I was actually envious summerc, so don;t feel like that!

I spend too much time on MN I reckon, or I would be reaching your amount!

C&P'd from another thread. July/Aug are a bit fallow! BG = book group read

January
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (BG)
Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
Digging to America - Anne Tyler

Feb
The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
Aberdeen Curiosities - Robert Smith
News From No Mans's Land - John Simpson
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
In Siberia - Colin Thubron

March
The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
India, a History - John Keay

April
Two Lives - Vikram Seth
The Reading Group - Elizabeth Noble (BG)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Blood River - Tim Butcher
The Reader - Bernard Schlink

May
Drowning Ruth - Christine Schwarz
The Family Orchard - Nomi Eve
Notes From An Exhibition - Patrick Gale
Growing up in the Gorbals - Ralph Glasser
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Call The Midwife - Jennifer Worth
The Road to Nab End - William Woodruff
The Surgeon of Crowthrone - Simon Winchester

June
The Soldier's Return - Melvyn Bragg
An Introduction To Judaism - Nicholas de Lange
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (BG)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

July Aug Sept
A Son of War - Melvyn Bragg
Empire - Niall Ferguson
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney (BG)
Shadows of the Workhouse - Jennifer Worth

Oct
I, Coriander - Sally Gardner (children's book)
Leonard Woolf, a life - Victoria Glendinning
The Outcast - Sadie Jones
The Memory Stones - Kate O'Riordan
The Map That Changed the World - Simon Winchester

Nov
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (BG)
The Gathering - Anne Enright (not sure if I should include this as I hate dit so much I didn't even finish it)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis - Dave Eggars (meh)
The English - Jeremy Paxman
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad

Dec
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

I'm currently (not) reading William Hague's biog of William Wilberforce and in fact, during July/Aug I did read a book - about an outbreak of cholera in London.

I read at least 100 but they were all (pre-school) kid's books

that doesn't count does it....

Do Richard & Judy selections count?

If we're going to include pre-school books then I shall have to add that I've read a Squash and A Squeeze at least 600 times in the last year.

Over and over again, I could probably recite it backwards and I am hoping 2009 will bring some variety to DS's choice of bedtime reading.