I finished the first book of the year this morning: Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys. It was really good. I recommend it to everyone. I actually read about 100 pages of it before the year began, so I’m not counting those pages, but since that was only slightly more than 25% of the book, I am still going to count it as one book for 2008.
My stats look like this now:
1. Neil Gaiman – Anansi Boys – 1-6-08 (287 pp)
Totals:
Books: 1
Pages: 287
Not super exciting, I know. We’ll see where things go.
I am going to do that whole “50 books a year” thing this year. That isn’t to say I don’t read (at least) 50 books most years, I’m just going to write more about it this time. I know I’ve written about my reading before, but in the past I felt this need to write 3-4 paragraphs about each book when I finished it, which made me put the whole thing off to the point where I simply didn’t feel like doing it any more. All I’m going to do this time is note when I finish a book, and how many pages it was. Nobody will care. That’s OK.
Oh yeah, Happy New Year and all that.