Buffy ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
According to the article 27% of Americans did not read a book in the last year. That means 73% did, which is kinda better than I would expect. There are some interesting stats about who reads what in the article too. I dunno if audio books would count, my count of books read would go up a bit if I counted stuff I listen to while commuting.
If I could count the scads of fanfiction I read, my count would go WAY up. Sometimes I even print it to read on a commute (by bus, not car)
If I could count the scads of fanfiction I read, my count would go WAY up.
Wrod, I slurp down thousands of words a week in fic.
Someone above mentioned that it should be in multiples of 18, because it represents chai. I think that $36 checks are quite common.
Yes. Even $18 checks are pretty common for some folks. It depends on the swankiness of the affair.
Bwah. This is true of me as well. I've read a few books this year, but if you factor in McShep fanfic the word count has to be in the low seven digits!
if you factor in McShep fanfic the word count has to be in the low seven digits!
That's the stuff I'm currently mainlining! God bless del.icio.us.
Thanks! Uh, sort of drug-addled yesterday. Not a good way to live, and I'm taking it too for granted. I am disturbed.
When the Gallup poll asked in 2005 how many books people had at least started -- a similar but not directly comparable question -- the typical answer was five. That was down from 10 in 1999, but close to the 1990 response of six.
I'm pretty sure I just saw a thing that circulation at the Queens Public Library shows that it's something like 9 books per person per year -- and you know not everyone goes to the library! So that was heartening.
Audio books should definitely count, damn it! Whyforever not, when if anything you have to concentrate MORE to follow them?
The thing with fanific is that I just mainline it. I get hooked on a good story, and then I read, like every other story ever written with that pairing. I am scouring the internets like a junkie or something, until I want to vomit because I have overdosed, and can only read things from a few good authors. Right now, I am to the end of Doctor/Rose fanfic on the internets
I am in such a foul mood this morning. ugh!! and if one more customer calls in who tells me he's hard of hearing and i need to talk louder(read: shout) so he can hear me, i'm gonna go ballistic.
ita, i'm sorry you're having such an awful time with your health. not to mention that the doctors are being asshats.