This morning I finished my 300th book since I started tracking such data back in June of 2015. The book which pushed me over this milestone was the surprisingly good anthology 101 Famous Poems, originally published in 1958. (Hence my surprise.) This book had been sitting in the meditation chamber of my bedroom for some …
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Top Books of 2018
The Best Books (read by me) of 2018 A friend on Facebook posted a request for top books of this passing year, so I made this little list. I gave each of the books below 5 stars in my entirely subjective ranking. There are 29 books in total, twenty-six of which are fiction of one …
300 Books (Not Really)
Just finished the 300th book that I’ve read since I started tracking just which books I read and complete — though this number has the caveat that it includes comics and graphic novels, which I am not counting in my most strenuous accounting, as discussed in earlier posts here and here. The particular book read …
200 Books: The List
As promised, here’s the list of the most recently read hundred books, this time broken down into ten book bite-sized pieces. For each tenner of books, I’ve provided brief notes on one representative volume. To repeat, I’ve only counted non-comic books towards my number of books read, so the ‘#’ field in the below table …
200 Books Update: What Happened
As I said yesterday, the discovery of a missing datum threw some of the conclusions of recent posts into doubt. As of now I have updated those posts with correct information. The affected posts are listed below: 200 Books (Not really) 200 Books Analysis: The 2nd Hundred Books All of these posts have been amended …
201 Books! (This Changes Everything)
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Previous post(s) about reading 200 books have errors. Please disregard. More details follow, with more to come. Well, that just shows that data analysis is only as good (at best) as the underlying data… Whilst scrubbing data in my books database — which is something I do, and you should do it …
Analysis: The 2nd Hundred Books [UPDATED]
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. As I just mentioned, I recently finished reading 200 books, counting from when I …
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200 Books [UPDATED]
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. This morning (Actually I reached the noted milestone six days earlier, on June 21.) …
200 Books (Not really) [UPDATED]
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 …
100 Books
(or, The Pointlessness of Data) As promised earlier, I return to announce that I have now read 100 books — according to the database I keep of my books. When previously i made such announcement, I had to express three caveats, to wit: The ‘books’ referred to previously included graphic novels and comics, which perhaps …