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This month's theme: the reread. I don't think I read a single new novel the entire month.

There was, however, a lot of fanfic. Fanfic's easier to deal with during exam stress.

( I started the month with fast skims of the last two books in the 'Children of the Star' trilogy. )

( Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian. )

( Post Captain, Patrick O’Brian. )

( Patriotism, Yukio Mishima. )

( The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien. )

( The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien. )

And that's 2003. By my count, I read 56 books between May and December, and I know I read more before May that didn't make it onto an organized list. So on average I finished a book every. . . 4 and 3/8 days in the last 245 days of the year, and every three days in September, when I finished ten novels in thirty days. (Some of them were very short novels.)

This year's reading goal, I think, is nonfiction. It'll kill my rate, but I need to get out of my predominantly SF rut, and learn a bit more about the world.

(So what am I currently reading? J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, by Thomas Shippey.

I'll be good. I'll read The Origin of Species that's been kicking around my room next. Promise.

If I'm not seduced by Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien first, of course.)