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2009 Page Count

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

I log all of my book reading in a composition book. 2009 was my first complete year of this practice.  I read 9,044 pages in 25 books. This excludes any books I abandoned (that number was unusually high in 2009) and any online reading (which I hazard to guess accounts for more than half of my total reading). I hope to improve upon that total for 2010. There is no shortage of stuff for me to read.

Sci-fi queue

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Thanks to some gift cards to book sellers and the low prices of paperbacks, I have a good sized stack of science fiction novels to read:

  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • The Number of the Beast by Heinlein
  • The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card
  • Tehanu by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • I Will Fear No Evil by Heinlein
  • Ender’s Game by Card

Those should keep me occupied for a good while. I also have a few other novels as well as some nonfiction to keep me busy.