According to Goodreads, I've read 38 books so far this year. I say so far because I'm on track to finish "14" by Peter Clines very soon and may read "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern by the end of the year. For the sake of argument, let's say 40. Not my goal of 50, but still far more than I've managed in recent years thanks to Audible (and audio in general; I'm not above reading in text-to-speech if I have to).
I tend to subvocalize everything: conversations, reading print, reading in audio. This means my comprehension with audiobooks and even text-to-speech is high, even though my whole reason for reading in audio is so that I can multi-task. Dog walking and driving are the big reading times, but with a sleep timer I can get a little more in at night (though I usually wake tangled in my headphones), and I've recently discovered how much reading time I've lost by not doing errands with my Kindle. Yep, I'm the one standing in line at retail stores and pushing the grocery cart through the isles with a Kindle Fire in my back pocket and headphone wires catching on things.
Here's a visual of this year's books. My runaway favorite was "The Last Days of New Paris" by China Mieville followed by "The Fifth Season" by N. K. Jemisin. (If you noticed the three non-fiction books on Maya mythology you can probably guess at the direction of my current WIP novel.)
I tend to subvocalize everything: conversations, reading print, reading in audio. This means my comprehension with audiobooks and even text-to-speech is high, even though my whole reason for reading in audio is so that I can multi-task. Dog walking and driving are the big reading times, but with a sleep timer I can get a little more in at night (though I usually wake tangled in my headphones), and I've recently discovered how much reading time I've lost by not doing errands with my Kindle. Yep, I'm the one standing in line at retail stores and pushing the grocery cart through the isles with a Kindle Fire in my back pocket and headphone wires catching on things.
Here's a visual of this year's books. My runaway favorite was "The Last Days of New Paris" by China Mieville followed by "The Fifth Season" by N. K. Jemisin. (If you noticed the three non-fiction books on Maya mythology you can probably guess at the direction of my current WIP novel.)
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