NOTE: Due to recently (5 July 2018) discovered errors in underlying data, some statements in this post are incorrect. The original post is preserved, with new corrected information presented in monospace font. More information can be found in this blog post.
Yesterday I finished my 200th book since recording such info starting in June of 2015. Actually, as I have mentioned before, I cannot take full credit for reading quite so many books, for the primary reason that many/several/some of the so-called ‘books’ were simply comic books, and hence took but an matter of moments to ‘read’. So I eschew them from my ‘official’ count.
Still, it remains a fact that I have finished 200 works of some stripe or another in the past two-and-a-half-plus years. The ‘200th’ work (in this asterisked account) was, as may be guessed from the accompanying image, Jane Austen’s novel of romance deferred, the 1816 work Persuasion.
Actual 200th work read was The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander, his fantasy retelling of Welsh legends for readers young in heart or young in age. Due to other technical issues, the Austen novel referenced above is actually #203 in the list of all books read since commencing this pointless book tracking project.
I next plan to read an actual comic book — and thus get no closer to the next hundred in the ‘official’ count (which currently stands at 164) — which lately fell to hand when I was demonstrating the change in printing technique and paper which led to the art that pops from the modern comics. I leave you with the image of that book, and hope you, too, enjoy the opportunity to read about the world’s most unusual superhero, the Badger.
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