Wheee! I'm my own longitudinal study!
2008 was ostensibly my best reading year in a long while, and I’d say this was true not just in terms of quantity, but also quality! I started to keep track in earnest of the books I was reading in 2007 (I began my listkeeping near the tail-end of 2006, but it was already too late by then to remember everything I had read that year). I think this exercise has reinvigorated my interest in reading, and by tracking what I read, I’m finding out how to get the very most out of my reading experience. This year, I read 44 books, which is just slightly more than double the books that I read in 2007 (20 books), and likely far more than I read in 2006 (13 books recorded). I definitely feel as though this year a made a conscious decision to devote more of my personal time to reading, and that is certainly a decision I have not regretted. Perhaps more significant is that I didn’t just read more books this year, but I appeared to read books that I enjoyed more overall (after all, what’s the point in reading more, if you’re enjoying the books less?). My mean book rating this year was 3.69, which is an improvement over 2007’s mean rating (3.52), and an even greater increase when compared to 2006 (3.31). See plot for geekish visual exploration of my reading trends. Further in-depth evaluations of my reading habits of 2008, as well as the complete list of what I read, after the jump. I promise there will be no more graphs. Probably.
Steph and Tony Investigate 