What an odd year for reading.
I agree with French booksellers – bookshops are an essential service. And I certainly did my bit to keep them in business this year.
I started 2020 with 302 books in the TBR stack and thought that I would hit the 200s for the first time in years. COVID mucked that up. Apart from buying more books (see above), I also read a lot less. I estimate that I will finish the year with 344.
I’m not going to set a goal for 2021. If there’s one thing I’ve learnt this year, it’s that trying to predict anything is a waste of energy… Wait. I will predict that I’ll buy more books. That’s worth sticking to.
How’s your stack looking?
I read about the same this year, but my TBR stack got much bigger. I bought tons of books. All good ones, but still.
Looking at Goodreads, I estimate I’ve read 25% LESS this year, which seems quite a big difference. Glad you kept your usual pace!
In a word, terrible!
Terrible because there’s not enough on it? 😉
I bought loads of books and read hardly any. Oh well…….
That’s the good thing about books, they’ll keep.
Refusing to count it…
I truly only count because I have a spreadsheet that I like to browse…
One word: HUGE
That’s reassuring 😉
Gorgeous.
The bigger the better, I say…
(After all, imagine we hadn’t been able to buy any at all… we would need a stash to tide us over, right?)
And what’s more, all the books published for the next little while are going to be all about Covid, and I won’t want to buy any of those. So that’s another reason to have a stash…
Yes, I imagine there will be a whole trend in COVID / pandemic books – not something I’ll be reading.I have 3-4 years of reading in reserve, in case it’s a very long trend.
Yes, any authors reading this, you have been warned!
Lol – I like your prediction! I read more this year than previous – which is surprising since April and May I thought I was done reading for the year. I included more novellas and then “unofficially” participated in some readathons which I think helped a lot. Also, since we host 2 reading challenges I didn’t want to completely bugger off them – so that motivated me as well.
If it was in my house or on my Kindle, it got read this year. A very singular year of 709 books.
I bought loads of new books this year. My excuse was that I was supporting my favourite indie bookshop when they needed it, but I didn’t need much persuading 🤣
I definitely bought more books this year than I would have in other years and I don’t feel a bit bad about it! I’ve just incorporated book buying into my 2021 goals, which I’ve set very tenuously because 2020 showed us all that goals can be kind of meaningless!
I also bought more books this year – to save my sanity, and also to keep my favourite indie bookshop afloat. All in a good cause!
Both very, very good reasons.
I just did a count of my TBR. There I was thinking I had done pretty well, not buying that many books (closed bookshops meant no browsing temptations) and discarding ones I no longer had interest in reading. But I was kidding myself. So I’m actually only 5 down from the tally at end of 2019.