How Do You Measure, Measure A Year?

How do I measure a year? Why, I choose to measure it in the number of books I've read, of course! Because I LIKE LISTS!

1. *Forest of Souls Rachel Pollack
2. *A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller, Jr.
3. Kalpa Imperial Angelica Gorodischer
4. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
5. *Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier
6. *Don't Look Now Daphne du Maurier
7. The House on the Strand Daphne du Maurier
8. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
9. Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett
10. Moving Pictures Terry Pratchett
11. Men at Arms Terry Pratchett
12. *The Scapegoat Daphne du Maurier
13. *My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier
14. *Carter Beats the Devil Glen David Gold
15. Lord of Light Roger Zelazny
16. *The Bhagavad-Gita Translated by Barbara Stoller Miller
17. *Cherry Ames, Student Nurse Helen Wells
18. *Eleanor Rigby Douglas Coupland
19. *Nine Princes in Amber Roger Zelazny
20. *Bible Stories for Adults James Morrow
21. *The Big Over Easy Jasper Fforde
22. *The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
23. *The Well of Lost Plots Jasper Fforde
24. *Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
25. *Something Rotten Jasper Fforde
26. *The Uddhava Gita Translated by Swami Ambikananda Saraswati
27. *Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
28. *Only You Can Save Mankind Terry Pratchett
29. *The Golem: The Story of a Legend Elie Wiesel with Mark Podwal
30. *Temporary Agency Rachel Pollack
31. *City of Tiny Lights Patrick Neate
32. Olympic Games Leslie What
33. The Pirates! In an Adventure With Communists Gideon Defoe
34. The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories H.P. Lovecraft

These are in order. I haven't included any graphic novels, because in some ways that feels a bit like you are padding your list. Besides, this year it was a bit of a moot point anyways, because I didn't have enough money to read new graphic novels, and tended to just reread the ones I already had, which I wouldn't count anyways. I'm pleased that I managed to read more than I did last year. (In 2004, my list was much longer, but I was including graphic novels then, and my criteria for "books read" seems to have been much less stingent, so I don't count it.) I'm still a frequent reader. I'm also pleased that I read so many books that I borrowed from the library, which I indicated by listing the titles with asterisks before them. And the fact that I seemed to sprinkle a few classics in there is not a bad thing at all.

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Alternate Measurement Of Year: In which I list every city that I spent at least one night in during 2006. This is similarly in chronological order. (See last year's list)

• Pittsford, New York
• Lake Worth, Florida
• Key Largo, Florida
• Key West, Florida
• Walled Lake, Michigan
• Anna Maria Island, Florida
• Delray Beach, Florida
• Orlando, Florida
• Clearwater, Florida
• Boynton Beach, Florida
• Doral, Florida

Pretty much dominated by the state where I'm living now. No surprise there.

Here's to many more books read and overnight trips taken in 2007!