I just finished reading Carrie, Stephen King’s first novel. I’ve only read a few books by King, none of them were horror—Different Seasons, The Green Mile, and The Running Man (writing as Richard Bachman). I read a horror short story of his called “The Raft” which I mentioned in my blog post, A Weird Bit of History.
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I like to keep track of my yearly reading. Not only is it a nice way to look back and feel some accomplishment (especially when I look back over multiple years), it keeps my feet to the proverbial fire.
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In a recent newsletter, I asked my readers two questions.
1. What is your favorite mystery series and who is it by?
2. Which of my mystery series do you like the best?
In 2017, I tracked how many books I read. I shared the list on the personal finance website I was running at the time, The Bumbling Millionaire. I enjoyed the experience so much I’ve tracked my annual reading every year since.
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Here is some interesting news from a recent YouGov poll which proves how awesome my readers are!
46% of American adults read no books in 2023. Zero. Nada. Yipes!
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Here's a little weird history.
I discovered Stephen King's "The Raft" last year while on a trip back to Ohio. It was in this super cool booklet format. I've read a few of King's books, but I'm not well-versed in his works. I enjoyed the short story.
Here’s something cool.
I recently finished reading Ross Macdonald’s THE WAY SOME PEOPLE DIE. It’s a Lew Archer novel written in 1951. I loved the book. It’s pace was quick and it had some excellent banter in it.
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Several years ago, I started tracking my annual reading. I did this after learning how important the most successful individuals valued reading. I wrote several posts over on my personal finance blog, The Bumbling Millionaire. When I stepped back from that project to focus on my crime fiction writing, I didn’t want to lose track of the annual reading list. It felt too important.
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Goodreads posed this question: “If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go, and what would you do there?”
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Since 2017, I’ve made it a goal to read one book a week. For those challenged by a calendar, that would be 52 books a year. I’ve yet to hit that number, but I will always strive for that number. I read traditionally printed books, ebooks, and I listen to audiobooks.
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Recently, my 29-year-old daughter finished a self-improvement book that my girlfriend had gotten for her. She loved that book and didn’t know what to read next. She came to me for a recommendation.
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On the previous New Year’s Eve, I wrote a post (How Many Books Did You Read This Year?) that detailed the number of books I read (30) in 2017. This was in follow-up to an earlier post, You Are What You Read. Personally, the latter article is one of my favorites and in it I shared my personal reading plan.
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Earlier this year, I wrote the post You Are What You Read in which I discussed the well-documented argument that successful people read.
I also talked about my reading plan: For every book I read for pleasure, I will read one book for education.
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There’s a famous computer coding concept known as GIGO – Garbage In / Garbage Out. If you put sloppy coding (information) into a computer, you will get equally or greater sloppy results.
The human brain is essentially a computer. It’s an easy concept to understand from there, right?
If we put bad stuff into our brains, then we’re going to get poor results out. Duh.
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