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[serene]

Fifty books in a *year*? I'm lucky if I can finish two books a month. You people are amazing.

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[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

You don't want to know me, then. :)

(I read 223 books last year, and I'm well on the way to matching that this year.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm a fast and enthusiastic reader, but I honestly think I would have to give up exercise, sleep, or sex to make it to 50, let alone 223.

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

My reason/excuse is that I have a 2.5 hour commute every day (just over an hour each way), and I read every day the entire time.

Plus lunch, that gives me about 3 hours of reading time a day, plus any time I spend reading while at home. (In the bathtub, or before bed.)

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I don't give up any of those (well, sleep already gave up on me), but I read several books a month. Granted, I have a *lot* of downtime. I'd probably read about 50 books a month if (a) I didn't have a laptop; (b) library books didn't make me itch horribly on a regular basis (why oh why do they let smokers and and Glade plug-in users and cat owners check out books?); or (c) I had loads of cash.

[redbird]

Because otherwise we wouldn't have money for catfood, and the cats would howl piteously at the library doors.

[baerana.livejournal.com]

That's about what I do in a year, but for me, it's that I don't sleep (not on purpose, I have chronic insomnia)

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I've read either 15 or 16 book so far this year. I'll add another 11 onto that by mid-next week. I average probably 20 books a month.

But then again, most of that reading is for my book review writing freelance thing, too.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

*laugh*. 50 books a year is so not a challenge for me. but hey, you do other things with your time.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

In the day, I would read a book a day on average. It's been a lonnnnng time since the day. :-)

[karenthecroccy.livejournal.com]

I'm halfway through books nine and ten. Eleven, tweleve and thirteen are already started. I work 40 plus hours a week, but I have 40 minute bus ride to and from work and a half hour lunch break. I read stupidly fast ... always have ... and have to have a pile of books that I'm in the middle of reading. My days off ... I'm reading for at least an hour or two. Every night, I read for at least 30 minutes to and hour, more if I'm not sleepy (like last night).

I don't get a lot of action :) What? It's obvious? :)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I manage somewhere between five and ten books a year.

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

C read 86 books for work alone last year. (He interviews the authors.) I couldn't guess how many he read for pleasure, but I know he managed several of them even in the busy final week of the year.

Me, I'm not a fast reader. I like a fairly long chunk of quiet, undistracted time for reading books. If I have only a bit of time, or am somewhere relatively noisy, I'm more likely some shorter thing requiring less attention.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I've said before, I used to get soooo much reading done when I had a six-hour bus commute.

[slayerwitchnz.livejournal.com]

It depends how motivated you are and how long the books are. When I was in High School, we had a reading competition of sorts - set your own goal and make it. I believe I had mine set the highest in my class, at 50. It wasn't as much as a year long, but I don't remember the duration for sure. Anyway, I read all those books. However, they were mostly short, easy reads like the Goosebump books - still entertaining but each one didn't take very long! :)

[slayerwitchnz.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it's Goosebumps. Very long series also made into a TV-series. Written by R.L.Stine. It's been years since I've seen any of those books let alone read one.