December in Reading

Statistics:

Total Works Read: 4
Book Breakdown: Three Novels and one comic book series
Format Breakown: Two soft covers, 1 e-book, 127 issues

Total Pages Read: 4,110
Pages by Format Breakdown: Tradeback – 697, e-books – 238, Comics – 3,175
Average Pages by Day: 132-133

Works:

“24 Bones” by Michael F. Stewart

“After Dark” by Haruki Murakami

“Kafka on the Shore” by Haruki Murakami [to come]

“Birds of Prey” published by DC from 1999 to 2009 [to come]

Analysis and Goals:

Yes, well, December has been a strong reading month. Yes, it’s true that I finished only three from the designated six titles, but I had a heavy act to balance with this comic book series and when it all came down to statistics it turns out I have been on a reading frenzy. Comic books might seems easy picks for reading, but believe me, you have to scan the page once to get the dialogue, then a second time to get the narration/internal monologue and a third time to get as much as detail as possible from the art. So I am not disappointed.

January will be even busier. I have eleven other series [thankfully only three are longer and will give me a run for my money] and then there are definitely two novels for a guest review and one for a freelance gig that has to be read and analyzed. Apart from that I have exams and really just hope to finish Gaiman’s “American Gods”. January will ruin my eyes and melt my brain, but I will fight through it.