I haven’t read a single book yet in 2007. That’s pretty pathetic, for me, though I am in the middle of 4 books, of which at least one should be finished soon.<\/p>\n
2006 was a mediocre year in reading. 160 books total.<\/p>\n
That’s more than 2004<\/a>, though not all that many more, and significantly less than 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n non-fiction: 28 (17.5%) — success! the goal was 24.<\/p>\n new: 109 (68%) — success! though not a rousing one. Last year I read 100 new books. The percentage is only greater because I didn’t read as many overall.<\/p>\n manga: 29 (18%) — mainly because I had no money to buy them… the decrease in the overall number read can be completely attributed to less manga reading.<\/p>\n children’s\/YA: 40 (25%) — pretty much unchanged in that number. Last year was 41.<\/p>\n This year my reading goal is to keep the non-fiction at that level (I anticipate this being relatively easy being at the library so constantly and seeing the new books come in), but raise the overall number. Given that I haven’t finished anything yet this year, 200 books may well be out of reach without going manga-crazy, but that’s the tentative new goal to aim for.<\/p>\n The Newbery Project hasn’t had much of an update recently, mainly because I slacked off on reviewing several of the books from the project which I’d read and found completely uninspiring. And in an effort to not get backlogged with unwritten reviews, I simply stopped reading new entries from the list altogether. So a tertiary goal is to move forward with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t read a single book yet in 2007. That’s pretty pathetic, for me, though I am in the middle of 4 books, of which at least one should be finished soon. 2006 was a mediocre year in reading. 160 books total. That’s more than 2004, though not all that many more, and significantly less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}