I am Sue. And two of those were rereads of old favorites.

meara, you're a powerhouse.

I need to get as far through White Teeth as I can today and tomorrow, because book club is Tuesday. But I totally miscalculated this month, started reading it too late, and I'm spending a lot of my free time doing freelance work, so... not gonna happen. Bah.

The writing is very good, very vivid, but I admit I'm pretty confused as to where the story is going.

Holy crap. I've only read 31. 32 if you count Adventure Time, Vol. 6.

Oh, 4 of my 12 are TPBs (Ms. Marvel and 3 Hawkeye TPBs).

Wow! I can't imagine reading that much. Of course, if I watched significantly less TV and spent significantly less time on the internet, maybe I could do half that in the same amount of time. I think I have stopped and started more books this year than I have actually finished.

I think I've finished 25 books so far this year. The number of books I read a year has gone down in recent years. (And that's including graphic novels) Dunno why.

I don't watch much TV during the week (because I'm traveling and usually even if I am in my hotel room at the right time for a show I watch, I figure it's better with my TiVo on the weekend), and do a lot of reading then and on airplanes. And at meals. And on weekends...um, yeah. But also I read incredibly fast.

I'll be honest, my book-reading has really fallen off. My reading rate is slow, and my retention stinks if I do read fast. If I like a book, I want to live in it for awhile, walk around with the characters while, and after, I read, imagine the afterward. Transition from the world of one book to another is...not difficult, exactly. But I like to take my time with it. So I don't read nearly as many books as I used to.

I've also shed my need to finish every book I start. I've just about abandoned genre, as well. I read/beta so much fanfic that I get my genre quota there, so I save the book-reading time for something I don't usually get in fic. I get most of my book recs here, actually. And am seldom steered wrong. I can think of three or four off the top of my head that were rec'd here that stay with me still.

I suppose, like the tortoise I am by nature, I don't streak through books I like, I wallow.

I don't watch much TV during the week (because I'm traveling and usually even if I am in my hotel room at the right time for a show I watch, I figure it's better with my TiVo on the weekend), and do a lot of reading then and on airplanes. And at meals. And on weekends...um, yeah. But also I read incredibly fast.

I wish I could read on planes, cars, trains, etc.

I read fast, and I can read damn near anywhere. But things have been just stressful enough for long enough that I'm not reading a lot of new-to-me books, I'm hitting comfort reading. And the new-to-me books I am reading? Lurid gothic and occult thriller/romances.

I just got Cherie Priest's Maplecroft from the library -- has anyone read it?