Dear Readers,
I started reading a lot shortly after getting married last summer. I like to think it's because I was finally done with grad school, secured a mere 40 hour a week job, faced no daunting job hunt, and thus had a bounty of previously unknown leisure time on my hands. It didn't hurt that the television writers went on strike during the fall, that Jacob and I spent a long November weekend in a Kansas condo with no television, and no overhead lighting (just little reading lamps), and that it gets dark in Seattle at about 2 pm in the winter. Jacob worries the list I keep by my bed titled "Books I've read since getting married" is an indication that I'm an unhappy and bored wife. Not so, I'm happy and boring. And it just so happens that my wedding day is a nicer, more memorable, yet arbitrary (for reading list purposes) date in my life than just about anything.
And so it happened that yesterday, 1 year, 2 months, 28 days after getting married, I read my 100th book. That's 1 book every 4.56 days. It all started with the not-so-great Wedding in December by Anita Shreve. (Oddly enough, both my friend Johanna and I chose to take this book along on our honeymoons.) And The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett marked my 100th just yesterday afternoon. (This book is small and British, not unlike Johanna.)
Thanks to the handy export feature on Goodreads, I was able to draw up some bookish stats. 100 is an easy number to do stats with, by the way.
For your statistical pleasure:
Average number of books per month: 6.66 (devilish, no?)
Most bookish month: January 2008, with 13 titles
Least bookish month: July and September 2007, with only 2 books each
Modal number of books a month: 8 (March, July, August, and September 2008)
Average number of pages per book: 314.65
My average rating (on a scale of 1-5 stars): 3.51
Number of authors read: 78
Most read author: Ann Patchett (7 books)
Second most read author: Ian McEwan (4 books)
My darling husband promises to throw me a 100 book pizza bash, a la the 4th grade reading celebrations we used to enjoy at Pizza Hut. You in?
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We're married. To each other. One of us is a librarian who reads a lot and thinks decorating her blog with library themes is "hip" and "with it." The other one is a video game designer who makes artsy fartsy video games about mutant ninja cats. He rarely blogs, so don't hold your breath. We have a dog, Essie. She neither reads nor plays video games. We like her anyway.
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I'll have a personal pan pizza with you in mind. I haven't kept a list of the books I've read since being married. I'm thinking I probably make triple digits. I definately make triple digits if I include books with one word per page, books by Jon Scieszka or Shel Silverstein, or books that tell you what to do when your kid is broken. I've been married for ten years now. By the time you reach this milestone, you'll be approaching the 1000 books read mark. Maybe then your husband will buy you dinner at The Olive Garden or something. You can only hope. Keep up the good work.
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