Books books books!

[thetofupirate]

In 2006, I read 78 books. I beat last year's total, which I was aiming to do. Hopefully I will beat 78 in this coming year.

Anyway, here's how it broke down:
71 were fiction books
7 were non-fiction.

Of those books:
11 were by Canadian authors
64 were by women authors (although it's not 64 women authors in total, since I read several books by the same author over the year)
and 38 were classified as Young Adult books.

Ones I really enjoyed:
Mud Girl - Alison Acheson
Arkansas: 3 Novellas - David Leavitt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
and Beauty Tips from Moosejaw: Travels in Search of Canada - Will Ferguson.

Next year, I should aim to increase my non-fiction reading.

Comments

yeah

[vitaminbootay.livejournal.com]

Yeah
You liked the David Leavitt that I lent you. It is such a good book, That man is a very good writer. I have another book to lend you when I am finished reading it.

Re: yeah

[emiline.livejournal.com]

I did, I did! And I look forward to borrowing another book.

[cosmorific.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved Mark Haddon's book! It was so well-written and moving, and a genuinely interesting perspective.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I liked about it! I'm hoping to find his new book soon.

[cosmorific.livejournal.com]

What's it called, the new one?

[emiline.livejournal.com]

It's called A Spot of Bother. It sounds interesing!

[cosmorific.livejournal.com]

It does indeed! I shall have to check it out from the library.

[thecherrybomb.livejournal.com]

i am going to track the books i read this year, i started to last year but didn't do a good job of it. i doubt i finished more than 12 books... which is sad. i remember a time when that total would have been much much different.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Do you think your new job leaves you with more time to be able to read? I hope so!