Do you also include short stories when you tally your list for the year?

I read like 30 in 2018 and 30 in 2019 but I'm only at like 20 rn my reading habits this year have been so trash

collections of short stories yes, standalone stories no

I count a book that's like 90 pages though, but that's also because i read books that are 700 pages + (I read like 2 or 3 giant books this year), so it evens out

Usually I get short stories in collections cause I always want more after reading. I count that as one book in the end.

Only read one collection so far this year though

Book Depository taking so long to send my order

this is the mood all 2020

at least I got two in the mail this month after waiting 3 months 💀

3 months

the struggle is real lmao

I’m missing my only manga n I’m in dire need of it/another one bc the artwork was clean af

my first delve into Fanon, excited to get into it haven't read a book in 2 months, so I've been itching something fierce

5 chapters in and im struggling to get engaged with 1984

Animal Farm had me hooked straight away

might just be cos i'm stressed with uni tho idk

hey guys for a project im working on at uni im looking to some small research into the reading habits of people

I'm putting together some questions now and this all i have:

Age Range

How many books do you usually read a year?

Are you interested in reading more books?

How long do you usually take to finish an average sized book? (e.g. 300 pages)**

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does anybody have any ideas for any more questions i could add?

would be a great help

Reading Moby D***. On chapter 2 rn, and all I can say is, Ishmael has a really strong narrative voice.

Do you have a consistent reading schedule every week?

Do you prefer audiobooks to physicals or vice versa?

Do you think theres a correlation between people's reading habits and the internet ?

Thank you bro!!

Norwegian Wood is my fav OAT but Wind up was way too surreal for me and I didn't really enjoy it, but since you like his elegant writing style I think you'll probably like it

I got to the part where they started talking about whale biology and I dropped it LMAO

you're def right on the narrative voice being strong but I'm also just not really into sea novels

I need to re-read this because I found it quite difficult at first apart form certain chapters, would be interested to see what you think

Just picked up
Joy White - Young Black Lives in the Inner City
Joseph Stiglitz - People, Power and Profits

Finished reading Katherine Birbalsingh's the power of culture and it's definitely an interesting look at how the traditional model of schooling can be successful

If s*** get too boring I'll drop it fasho lol. Or I'll just skip the whale detail bits if I feel like they don't serve the story, coz I feel guilty leaving a book without finishing it. I'm just excited to finally read the tale of Captain Ahab.

You mean too many quirks and whatnot? I was told I should expect that, since Norwegian wood is pretty straightforward and is not his "normal" writing style

added that Katharine Birbalsingh to my list 😮 interesting indeed

What were some of the topics discussed in this? Def gonna try and cop this one

Exactly, s*** is like an acid trip on paper, feels like people who enjoy that quirk style also don’t like Norwegian wood since it’s more straightforward

It’s basically staff members from the school all having a chapter where they talk about certain topics.

Some of the chapters are why schools should teach about dead white men, importance of values, harm of smartphones and having digital detox where these are taken away form pupils, importance of zero tolerance discipline,

Then you have another section on teaching, the culture of the school.

A lot of it is actually what most African schools are like so I’m not surprised the school has been successful, they got their first set of results and for a school in one of the poorest parts of London, they had some of the highest test scores

I'm currently only on Chapter 4, but lmk know what chapters/concepts you had a tough time with, and I'll be sure to read them over a couple times.

So far, I think I'm understanding some of the smaller concepts and anecdotes he's putting forth, but I'm not really getting the bigger picture yet. Translating academic and archaic French into academic and archaic English makes it a pain in the ass to read also.