2012 Reading by the Numbers

During 2012 I read 113 books, this was fewer volumes than in 2011, but more pages (34090 in 2012 and 33320 in 2011, according to my Goodreads statistics). I borrowed 65 of these from my public library.

I gave 5 stars to these 5 books:

• The Salterton Trilogy by Robertson Davies
• A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
• Evidence That We Are Descended from Chairs by Andrew Merton
• Clouds of Witness by Dorthy L. Sayers
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

I gave 4 stars to 46 books.
Overall it was a good year for reading and 2013 looks like it may be even better as I have a lot of books about which I am excited piled up and ready to read.

Reading Roundup (online edition)

I spent some time this weekend reading some of the posts on various book blogs that I try to keep up with. Here are the things that jumped out at me as especially fabulous:

• The Washington Post reviewed Eat the City, which looks like an addition to my TBR list.
• Desktop Retreat pointed out a cool website that features people reading on the NYC subway. I looked for my sister who is a subway reader, but no sign of her (so far).
• Among the Friday Finds at Should Be Reading was How to Blog a Book, which looks interesting.
• Devouring Texts has a wonderful post about why Nora Ephron is amazing--and how much the world has lost now that she is gone.
• There was a review of Keep it Real at Pages of Julia. She recommends it. I have added it to my reading list.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery has kept up with the Crime Fiction Alphabet (which got away from me) and in her R post talks about mapbacks which I hadn't come across before. The reviews on Bitter Tea and Mystery are very well done. If you like mysteries, I recommend following this blog.
• War Through the Generations has a list of WWI books as part of the WWI reading challenge for 2012. I am not taking on this challenge, but am psyched about the list as a WWI reading project is definitely in my future.
• "I could just listen to the man all day,"too. Thanks to the Introverted Reader for the vicarious experience of the Unchained Tour.
• Four months of Moby Dick seems like a violation of the 8th Amendment to me, but maybe it's better if Stephen Fry reads it to you.