Fred's Reading Report (April 2008)

O.K., it's that time of the month again!

Eighteen books YTD! 187 short works!

Which is to say...there's good news and there's bad news. For short works, if the goal is one short a day, I needed to be at 121 stories by the end of April. So, I've exceeded that goal. For long form, 18 books is better than one book a month for a year, so I'm way ahead of 99.99% of the people I know (many barely manage a book a year, for all love).

Last month the count was 7 books and 134 short works. I did pretty good on books, but feel like I haven't read all that much this past month. I definitely did not read as much short stuff as I have in past years on a month-by-month count.

The numbers are improved if you look at (well, if I look at) the number of books in progress. Maybe it is short attention span theatre time, but I have a large number of books I've started but not yet finished. A lot of jumping around is happening.

Partly it appears to be due to some ongoing events and some cyclical events. Ongoing events include the health of my father and the stress that causes. Cyclical events include spring (and the amount of work I do outside), homework (my daughter's homework!), work schedules.

So if I can settle myself down, the count should go up a nice bit next month...if I can concentrate on the partly-finished projects for once.

Posted by Fred Kiesche at May 1, 2008 07:53 AM