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).
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2015 6:34:30 am PDT #23222 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
sj - Apr 19, 2015 7:30:23 am PDT #23223 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Sheryl - Apr 19, 2015 8:17:10 am PDT #23224 of 28333
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
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.
meara - Apr 19, 2015 8:52:44 am PDT #23225 of 28333
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.
Beverly - Apr 19, 2015 8:55:14 am PDT #23226 of 28333
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
sj - Apr 19, 2015 9:04:53 am PDT #23227 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Atropa - Apr 19, 2015 10:16:54 am PDT #23228 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2015 10:22:32 am PDT #23229 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just got Cherie Priest's Maplecroft from the library -- has anyone read it?
Calli - Apr 19, 2015 10:25:29 am PDT #23230 of 28333
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think I've read 12 or so novels so far this year. That'll probably fall off a bit once I go back to work this Tuesday.
I just got Cherie Priest's Maplecroft from the library -- has anyone read it?
I started it. But I just wasn't into a Lovecraftian mood, so I took it back to the library. The writing in the first few chapters was good, though. It's on my list of things to try again when I'm in the right head space.
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2015 11:17:48 am PDT #23231 of 28333
brillig
I've gotten lots of free or cheap eBooks out of BookBub, but only a few of the new-to-me books really hold my attention. Maybe I'm just in the land of "you get what you pay for," but I've read fanfic better than a lot of the stuff I'm seeing. But I'm learning which descriptors to avoid: "frothy" and "spicy" and, sadly, "rollicking". And any plot description for a mystery that gives equal weight to the female protagonist being as worried about her relationship as she is with the bodies all over the place.