Dragaera

the next vlad book?

Thu Jul 18 11:16:48 PDT 2002

Starshadw at aol.com writes:
> 
> [book reading rate]
> I lost count years ago.  I couldn't even begin to guess how many books I've 
> read.  And we don't even want to talk about all of the many books I re-read.

I noticed that I had trouble remembering books I had read and movies I
had seen, so I borrowed a friend's idea and started minimalist book
and movie logs.  Minimalist means title & author for books, directory
& year & title & source (TV, DVD, theater) for movies, plus the year &
month I read/saw them.  The idea is that recording more information,
such as a synopsis or review or rating, would make it too much work
and I'd give up maintenance.

It's been interesting.  I read SF almost exclusively, where SF =
speculative fiction, which includes science fiction, fantasy, horror,
and maybe some alternate / secret history.

Within SF, I thought that I read mostly science fiction.  Well, that
might be true over my lifetime, but to my surprise, for the last few
years, when I have been keeping a booklog, I've read and reread more
fantasy than science fiction.

- tky