{"id":37,"date":"2007-07-12T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2007-07-25T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T21:19:00","slug":"50-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"50 books"},"content":{"rendered":"

My local public library<\/a> is having a celebration of their 50th birthday with a year’s worth of activities. They’ve started a new one for adults: if you read 50 books by sometime in December, you’ll get a free library book bag. I looked at that and laughed – the contest starts now, but you can’t turn in the form until December. I’d have 50 books in no time, and then have to keep track of the form for months.<\/p>\n

But then I started wondering, how many books do I actually read? “Lots”, after all, is not really a quantitative term. So I’m going to start keeping a list. Feel free to ignore the “booklist” posts – \tthere’s unlikely to be much string. String books aplenty, though.<\/p>\n

To start, books I’ve finished in the past couple weeks (everything I could think of since about July 1, except I think I’m missing some):<\/p>\n