After far too long a wait (I first told you I’d read my 1800th book back in April), here is the promised list of the last hundred books read in my silly little book tracking project. I’ve already spoken of the first book in that century of book reading—the December 1964 issue of Fantastic which …
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Book List: 1700
As promised, here is the complete listing of the last 100 books I’ve read. As is my standard practice, I do not count comics and graphic novels (or books of strips like Zippy or The Far Side, for that matter) towards that 100 book total, though I will list those here for your perusal and …
Book List: 1600 Books
As I told you not too very long ago, I’ve just finished another set of 100 books (not counting the comic books and graphic novels (of which latter there was only one, sort of, and it was one of the very rare books so bad that I gave it a single star in my rating …
Book List: 1300 Books
Just after Christmas of 2023 … it may have been in the new year and it may not … my wife and I were driving by a Little Library in our neighborhood and she said “You want to check it out?” and I said yes and—30 seconds later she saw me coming to the car …
1300 Books — Aaargh!
Welp. I had thought that I’d just finished Book #1300 in my Great Book Tracking Project only this past Friday. However. Well, I came to find out, as I did my silly little analyses on the last tranche of One Hundred Books that … well, erm … I’d once again made a dumb mistake as …
1000 Books! (!)
It gives me very great pleasure to announce that late last night (that is to say, early this morning) I finished reading my 1000th book since I began tracking my reading, way back in 2015. My wife actually gave me as a birthday gift ten years ago the book database software (along with a barcode …
Monday Book Report: Wingman
Wingman, by Manus Pinkwater The 3rd book I’ve read in the past week to make me cry. Too short to write too much about, save to say that Daniel Pinkwater (yes, he used his middle name as his first on this book) is an author who can tell a heartwarming tale I can believe in, …