Books Read

[dsrtao]

105. Permafrost, Al Reynolds.

A novella about time travel, paradoxes, saving humans from the consequences of their own actions, and courage. Stirring but unfortunately reminded me of the sort of short story that academics think are classics and force kids to read.

Comments

[feoh]

OK stupid question - what do the numbers represent? Is this the per year count or something?

Thinking of cribbing your idea because I'd like something a bit less structured than GoodReads and on the off chance someone read it and replied I'd love to chat about the books I'm reading.

[dsrtao]

I started counting on January 2nd with the first book I started and finished reading this year, and incremented with each new title. I count:

- anthologies of stories as 1

- books originally published in multiple volumes but bound/sold together as N

- novellae or longer as 1

- gigantic online tracts exceeding 1.2 million words but considered as one work as 1

- rereads as 1

- did not finish for any reason as 0

[dsrtao]

And as you surmised, I'm more or less happy to talk about any of them.

I think that next year, I will go back to my usual method, which is to mention exceptional works here but not enumerate all the things I read.