Books wot I hav read

Just before New Year last year there was a piece in the local paper about a ten year old boy who had read 100 books in the last year as a charity thing. This was put up as a terribly fine thing and there were the usual line of letters about how no-one reads anymore and suchlike. I looked at this and figured if a kid could do it then so can I, and it would be a damn sight longer books as well as the pile he was sitting next to had nothing that looked over 100 pages (except maybe a Rowling or two) and mostly shorter. Thinking about it I would probably have beaten his page count at that age as well as ten was when I was reading people like Haggard, Wells, Ransom, Verne, Burroughs etc. I wish I'd kept a list of what I was reading at that age as I think I read less now than I ever did at school.

I did think of following keristor 's example and posting the list monthly but I'd keep forgetting, I know me, so here it is, copied out of the notebook that's been stuffed under the moniter for the last year.

( January )

( February )

( March )

( April )

( May )

( June )

( July )

( August )

( September )

( October )

( November )

( December )

All this while keeping up a magazine habit of about 4 weeklys and 8 monthlys