this year's reading

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This year I have recorded 57 books read. I may finish another book before the end of the year, but I probably won't be posting any more, since I'm going away on vacation. Right now I'm a third of the way through the next installment of Anais Nin's diary. I'm debating whether that will go on vacation with me or if I'll try to pick it back up when I get home.

Looking back over the books this year, it's a pretty good crop. I got some really good classics in: "Animal Farm" and "Brave New World". I got some fun stuff in. I also worked my way though some more difficult works.

Obviously, I lost my pace of reading a couple times this year. Since fall I've had to get up earlier, which has pretty much destroyed any chance of long reading sessions in the evening. Working weekends finished off my chances of getting a lot of reading in. I find I'm missing it and will have to figure out a way to squeeze more time between the pages into my weeks. I want to get back to the point where I'm reading the easy books in a day or two and taking a couple of weeks on the difficult books, not a couple of weeks on the easy books and more than a month on the difficult ones. There is so much I want to read, I've got to pick up the pace, I'm not going to live forever.

Hardest to read: "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin
Longest: "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy
Most fun: "Winterdance" by Gary Paulsen (Do yourself a favor and go out and find this book.)