Kevin's Watch

After a strong start out of the blocks, I've fallen off the pace. (Not an unusual pattern for me!) Reading a good one at the moment but having trouble concentrating. Also a few non-fiction titles in there which tend to slow me down.

Orlion, by the sounds of it, your Crowley detour has been well worth it.

Hahaha, I notice you don't give the actual numbers there...

I'm Murrin wrote:Looked at the actual numbers last night. In 26 weeks I've read 25 books, and 30 comic volumes or graphic novels.

I would call it more than one a week.

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Most comic TPBs can be read in an hour, I don't count those.

Avatar wrote:Hahaha, I notice you don't give the actual numbers there...
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Not a deliberate omission I assure you, just a consequence of foggy brain. 20 books out of the 50 for the year I'm meant to be reading. 4 behind schedule apparently though I do have 5 on the go in various stages of mid readness so it may improve.

Whatever the case, predictably, a hell of a long way behind you!

I'm Murrin wrote:Most comic TPBs can be read in an hour, I don't count those.

Well I wouldn't really either, but read 10 and that's a whole day's reading, so I think you can count them all as another book or two.

Shaun das Schaf wrote:4 behind schedule apparently though I do have 5 on the go in various stages of mid readness so it may improve.

4 isn't that bad in terms of the goal...slacker.

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50 weeks, 112 books. The last six months included much gaming, which really shot my average.

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Gaming ruined my score too . That and reading a couple of Malazan tombs, which really should count as 3 books.

Excuses aside, I did terribly this year. Half illness, half disintegrating attention span, half an ability to do Maths .

Hope the rest of you mob are meeting your goals.

Nah, I lost most of November due to spending too much time gaming. I'm at 45 and don't think I'll read 7 more in 3 weeks.

Yeah, I got set back by a new job, a John Crowley kick (the Aegypt Cycle was fantastic but put me behind 10 books that I never caught up with), and my Shakespeare goal was a complete bust.

Oh well, I might still make 50 books this year. I may even finish the Illuminatus! Trilogy before year's end

Buncha slowpokes.

Shaun das Schaf wrote:...a couple of Malazan tombs...

Hahaha, you mean tomes, right?

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See, I can hardly be expected to read when I can't write.
I also meant 'inability' to do Maths.

But at least I'm getting handing with a Warhammer.

I would say that half an ability and half an inability are the same, so no issue there. Handing though...

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Well, finished 2 more since then, bringing my total for the year to 114. Doubt I'll finish the current one before new years.

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39 so far this year.

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No goal this year. I've read 7 so far, IIRC.

Oh, I never have a goal. But I often get asked how much I read a year so the forum provides a handy running total for me.

(I also love how I can tell, for example, that the last time I read Wolfe's Book of the New Sun was in 2010. )

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72 so far this year, in 31 weeks. Bit slower than last year so far.

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Well, on my 123rd book for the year. Doubt I'll fit in another before the end (maybe one more), too many games to play. Just over two a week. Slow year for me.

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20 so far this 2015.

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Avatar wrote:20 so far this 2015.

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Twenty? Do you ever work?