So, it's December 31st as I write this. My blog's up to date, and I don't intend to do more than browse through my copy of Absolute Sandman 2 before midnight, which will conveniently rid me of the pesky issue of being halfway through a book when the clock strikes midnight. Final count is 102 books read, which is more or less two books a week. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself!
I've had a fair amount of fun doing this blog this year. At some stage I intend to go over all 102 of the books I got through, and collate some data about them to see what I can find, more or less. Book genres, and standard length of books I read, and suchlike. Patterns, if there are any, general statistics if there aren't. At a glance it looks like I had a very sci-fi/fantasy rich year, with a good smattering of books intended for younger audiences, but also a very decent helping of new authors that I hadn't tried before to mix and match with tried and true favourites. I'm pleased to see that I've tried a lot of new people this year, and even more pleased to see that so many of them have been such good reads.
I don't know yet if I'll continue this blog in 2013. I doubt that I'd manage to read another hundred books, given recent changes in lifestyle and net decreases in 'free time' due to work, friends, animals, and other worthy causes. And I do have my own personal record of all my best books, which I'll be updating some time early in the new year. This has been fun, though, and I've enjoyed setting out my thoughts about each book (even though some of them have been very overdue and somewhat rushed, it's still been a time to reflect on each story).
All the best and Happy New Year from me and mine, to you and yours. May your imagination run wild and take you into the heart of an adventure without further ado. Thanks for reading, folks.
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