A question to my fellow #writers - how many #books do you read?
If you took all the books you read in a year and divided that by the number of weeks in a year (52.17857 or 52 for easy sums), what is your weekly reading rate?
Please boost for a larger sample size
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Once upon a time it would have been more like 2 or 3 a week, but work, kids, my own creative writing, video games, TV and movies all fill time that used to be largely for reading.
I'd feel bad about slowing down, but in an informal poll of friends, 50 a year is about 45 more than most of 'em, so...
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My to-read pile now is three physical piles of 15-20 books each, plus a spreadsheet listing another 18 that I plan to get... I need help. Or more time. Or less books.... Nah! 😉
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