Books read in 2010

[tobyaw]

…and the books I read in the last year. Only thirty five books this year, which is down from sixty last year. For some reason that I can’t remember, I read practically nothing in the first seven months of 2010. Maybe I was spending too much time reading blogs.

I made up for it in the last couple of months, however. I’ve taken to reading in iBooks on my iPhone. I think it may replace physical books for me. The phone is always with me. Just as the best camera is the one you have in your pocket when you want to take a photo, the best book is the one I have with me when I have a moment to read.

A highlight of the year was finishing one Rebus book while driving through Guardsbridge on the way home from Dundee, and buying, downloading, and starting reading the next one before we reached St Andrews.

Private Eye Annual 2009 Edited by Ian Hislop (2009)
La Bella Figura Beppe Severgnini (2007)
Top Gear: Where’s Stig? (2009)
The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket (1999)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie (1920)
The Reptile Room Lemony Snicket (1999)
A Cure for All Diseases Reginald Hill (2008)
Midnight Fugue Reginald Hill (2009)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (2009)
John MacNab John Buchan (1925)
Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe (1974)
Unseen Academicals Terry Pratchett (2009)
The Rupert Annual No. 73 (2008)
The Rupert Annual No. 74 (2009)
Doctor Who Storybook 2010 (2009)
The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum (1980)
Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin (1987)
Hide and Seek Ian Rankin (1991)
Tooth and Nail Ian Rankin (1992)
Strip Jack Ian Rankin (1992)
The Black Book Ian Rankin (1993)
Mortal Causes Ian Rankin (1994)
Let It Bleed Ian Rankin (1995)
Black and Blue Ian Rankin (1997)
A Good Hanging and Other Stories Ian Rankin (1992)
Dead Souls Ian Rankin (1999)
Set in Darkness Ian Rankin (2000)
The Falls Ian Rankin (2001)
Beggars Banquet Ian Rankin (2002)
Resurrection Men Ian Rankin (2002)
A Question of Blood Ian Rankin (2003)

Comments

[ggreig]

Hopefully the actual driving part of that was in other hands...

Hurrah for John MacNab, a little-known classic!

[tobyaw]

Oh yes, that’s the other advantage of reading books on a screen — I can read in the dark while Andrew is driving.

[meepfrog.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know where to start in listing all the books I read in a year. Hmm. I could start now for this year, but not sure I remember them even just a week in. Umm..

After Effects - Catherine Aird
A stitch in Time - Emma Lathen
The Longer the Thread - Emma Lathen
Going For Gold - Emma Lathen
Come to Dust - Emma Lathen
The Family Tree - Sheri S Tepper
The Ghost now standing on Platform One - Anthology

There! I knew I hadn't been reading so much cos I've been knitting the last few days.

[tobyaw]

Time to start keeping a list!

[vivdunstan.livejournal.com]

Or try using Goodreads. I'd lose a list (I'm very good at losing things!), even a computerised one. But I tell Goodreads when I start a new book, and when I finish it, and it can export a CSV list of my reading record at any time.

[vivdunstan.livejournal.com]

My iPod touch helped me start reading again in 2009, so I can totally understand you using your iPhone like this. I was using Stanza and then the Kindle app, long before iBooks was available. Now I have my Kindle and am mainly reading on that, but I still use my iPod touch to read at times, and it still has a lot of books on it, especially DRM-free ones in Stanza, from Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks and O'Reilly.