It was, Perkins. I'm not entirely sure what the status quo of the crime is. Unsettling.

I guess we do now.

I could not make it through Catch 22 to save my life. I kept getting about 20 some pages in and never wanting to look at it again.

But I'm adding Pricess of Cleeves to my Amazon.

Maybe you join me in my 24-in-a-year challenge.

...24 books in a year?

Heh. Heheheheh. Ahem. I expect to go over 365 this year.

Clearly I have too much time on my hands.

Also, it is SO DAMN COLD in Spokane that I ordered room service rather than go out to eat. I'm not sure why salmon was on the Children's Menu, but salmon with fancy mac and cheese and brussels sprouts is YUM. But not really kid's food.

You can't count annual books without meara popping up. Do you watch any TV, meara? I know you fly a lot, but 365 is crazy.

Well, my friend wanted to do one a week but realized he usually reads 8 to 10 a year so that two a month was probably more manageable.

Like me, I think he reads a lot for work.

Meara, most of those are YA, right? Or a lot of them? You're not reading stuff like Catch-22 and 400 page tomes, right? I rarely recognize any of the titles in your long booklists, but the way you describe them, they seem like light stuff?

ETA: this isn't about your being a super-fast reader, I already know that's the case. Just for me, the difference between reading The Nanny Diaries (a one-day read) and Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) is huge in terms of time because often with peeps like Lewis, I'll re-read paragraphs because they're so funny or well-written, etc. So it can take me a long time to get through a book.

I went through my LJ book posts and counted, and I think I'll hit 24 books by the end of the year, but I would have a lot more if you included graphic novels.

Hah! Yes, I watch TV. Though I'm kinda behind on the TiVo, having been gone for almost two weeks. I've got season passes to...um...hmm. Glee, Grey's, Flash Forward, NCIS, Top Model, SYTYCD, HIMYM, a few other things....

Mostly it's that I read fast, love to read, and spend a heck of a lot of time on planes and in airports. And hotel rooms. And while only a few of them are YA books, javachik, they're definitely NOT deep reading--they're mostly divided between trashy romances and thriller type things (medical, legal, Dan Brown type stuff, that kind of thing--I get a lot of things at the library or off clearance at the used bookstore, so there's lots of those). And science fiction, but those take a little longer, and I read fewer of those on trips because I'm less willing to toss them when I'm done.

[edit: it evens out, see--the other day, I was on a flight from Hawaii to Spokane. On the airplane/airport for nine hours. I read five books]

Meara, most of those are YA, right? Or a lot of them? You're not reading stuff like Catch-22 and 400 page tomes, right?

I just got Don Quixote out of the library and I swear it's so heavy it could kill a man.