Total items read since 2004:
- 2011 = 70 items (25 items were eBooks)
- 2010 = 93 items
- 2009 = 79
- 2008 = 72
- 2007 = 104 items
- 2006 = 67 items
- 2005 = 91 items
- 2004 = 100 items
Will do a more detailed breakdown, if I get the chance (ha!)
What's obvious is that my 2011 reading volume has decreased, reversing the increasing trend for the last two years.
2011 was a particularly busy and hectic year for me. I'm still having flashbacks of bringing work home, after office hours -- on a regular basis from January 2011 all the way to maybe July. *shudder*
But I believe I read far more graphic novels in 2010 compared to 2011. So in terms of reading depth, 2011 might be better. Maybe (I might be wrong).
The purchase of an iPad, and seriously using the NLB's Overdrive collection on a regular basis, has given me more reading options. I think my reading volume might have hit 40 or 50 items only, if not for the iPad. And those 40 to 50 items might comprise of mostly graphic novels.
A snapshot of my reading genre tag-cloud so far (wished I'd done a snapshot each year... ah well)
My overall perception was that I was reading more non-fiction (not graphic novels) compared with previous years. In anycase, I'm rather intrigued to discover any particular shifts in reading patterns, beyond volume read. We shall see.
Will leave you with a re-post of my 2011 list (first posted at RoughNotes)
- Aftermath: Prepare for and survive apocalypse 2012/ Lawrence E. Joseph
- Aliens: Female war/ Mark Verheiden
- Asimov’s Science Fiction/ March 2011
- Battlestar Galactica: Complete Omnibus V1
- Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts
- Between water and song: New poets for the twenty-first century/ edited by Norman Minnick
- Bicycles: Love poems
- Bloomberg Businessweek/ June 27 – July 3, 2011
- Blue Beetle: Black and blue/ Matthew Sturges & Mike Norton
- Brevity 2: Another collection of comics by Guy & Rodd/ Guy Endore-Kaiser & Rodd Perry
- Buy me: new ways to get customers to choose your products and ignore the rest/ Marshall Cohen
- Buying time: trading your retirement income for income and lifestyle in your retirement years/ Daryl Diamond
- Coach Wooden: The seven principles that changed his life and will change yours/ Pat Williams
- Core strength for dummies, pocketbook edition/ LaReine Chabut
- Digital animation
- Dog fancy/ natural dog (2 issues in 1)/ Aug 2011
- Freakonomics
- Fundsupermart/ 4Q 2009
- Futurama: The time bender trilogy/ created by Matt Groening; story by Ian Boothby
- Gone case/ Dave Chua
- Happiness at the end of the world/ Happy smiley and friends
- Heroes vol 1
- How an economy works and why it crashes/ Peter D. Schiff
- Jack Doe: Anonymous/ Shawn Yap, Gabriel Chua, Xander Lee
- James Robinson’s complete WildCATS
- Jia: a story of North Korea/ Hyejin Kim
- Kato vol 1: Not my father’s daughter/ Ande Parks
- Liquid thinking: Inspirational thinking from the world’s greatest achievers/ Damian Hughes
- Lost Squad/ written by Chris Kirby; art by Alan Robinson; lettered by Kel Nuttall
- Love is the best medicine: what two dogs taught a veterinarian about hope, humility, and everyday miracles/ Dr. Nick Trout
- Mac Life/ May 2010
- Macworld/ April 2011
- Macworld/ May 2011
- Mental floss: genius instruction manual
- Myspace Darkhorse Presents (MDHP) vol 4.
- Northlanders. Book one: Sven the returned/ Brian Wood
- Northlanders. Book two: The cross and the hammer/ Brain Wood
- Relational intelligence: how leaders can expand their influence through a new way of being smart/ Steve Saccone
- Return on engagement: content, strategy, and design techniques for digital marketing/ Tim Frick – Standard
- Six degrees of expatriation/ Maida Pineda
- Small message, big impact: how to put the power of the elevator speech effect to work for you/ Terri L. Sjodin
- Social media metrics/ Jim Sterne
- StarCraft: Frontline. Volume 1.
- Story structure architect: A writer’s guide to building dramatic situations & compelling characters/ Victoria Lynn Schmidt
- Stranded vol 1/ Mike Carey & Siddharth Kotian
- Strategic thinking: a nine step approach to tragedy for marketeers and managers/ Simon Wootten & Terry Horne
- Strength for life: the fitness plan for the rest of your life/ Shawn Philips
- Teenage as a second language
- Terminator: revolution
- The agile enterprise
- The appeal/ John Grisham
- The brain fitness workout: brain training puzzles to improve your memory, concentration, decision-making skills, and mental flexibility/ Philip Carter
- The collected stories of Arthur C. Clarke. Short stories/ Arthur C. Clarke
- The crown and other stories/ Rabindranath Tagore; translated by Ranjita Basu
- The digital handshake: seven proven strategies to grow your business using social media/ Paul Chaney
- The genius machine: the eleven steps that turns raw ideas into brilliance/ Gary Sindell
- The home and the world
- The immortal iron fist
- The past and the punishments
- The Question: The five books of blood/ Greg Rucka et al.
- The right decision
- The tarnished angel
- The unwritten: Inside man/ Mike Carey & Peter Gross
- The war that time forgot: Vol 1
- Twitterville: how businesses can thrive in the new global neighborhoods/ shel israel
- What should I do with the rest of my life? True stories of finding success, passion and new meaning in the second half of life/ Bruce Frankel – Standard
- What the dog saw, and other adventures/ Malcolm Gladwell
- Why we run: a natural history/ Bernd Heinrich
- Work’s intimacy/ Melissa Greg
- Yes! 50 secrets from the science of persuasion/ Noah Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, Robert B. Caildini
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