As a fun exercise, suggested on the blog site Longreads, I analyzed my book reading choices for the first six months of this year. Here is what I found, in brief.
Number read 49.
Fiction/nonfiction:30/19
Female/ male authors 24/25.
History 2.
Poetry 1.
Short Stories 2.
Social sciences/Philosophy/Medicine/Religion 15.
Longest: War and Peace. Leon Trotsky.
Shortest: The Black Bonspeil of Willy McCribbon. W.O. Mitchell.
Oldest: War and Peace. Leon Tolstoy1861
Newest: Some Assembly Required. Neil Shubin. 2020.
Bought/Gifted/Borrowed/Library: 6/ 2/4/37
Canadian/foreign authors: 14/35.
Favourite fiction: American Dirt. Jeanine Cummins
Favourite nonfiction: Pharma. Gerald Posner.
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