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.

I could read a lot more if I weren't so hooked on Tetris on the iPhone. But when I play, I get a lot of thinking done. Still, I think the height of that addiction is long past me; I haven't played it in days.

I started reading again shortly before I got the new gig. In theory I could have devoured the library at Alexandria during my unemployment, but I didn't have it in me. Now I'm trying to work out how to balance my week. But I need to put books back in.

I wish interlibrary loan could work like Netflix with only a few things popping off the top at once. Or, say, one. Because I always get overenthusiastic and then dinged.

8 to 12 books a month. mixed , but lots of lighter books. However, there were only 6 books this mont - which I blame on facebook.

At some point during the summer I decided to start using my lack of employment for good -- or personal enrichment, at least -- and went looking for a top-100 books list to plow through by spring. I found this one: [link] which aligned with what I thought the top books were and what I wanted to read. I started with the first book, War and Peace, in August.

It's December. I'm still unemployed. I still haven't finished War and Peace.

I need to read more. But between the tivo and internet, I only tend to read when I travel.