Stanza Break: Happy New Year!
I spent some time at the beginning of the month finalizing my reading tracker for 2021, adding last minute books and taking a look at the data. Here are the quick stats:
112 books
60 fiction, 37 poetry, 4 nonfiction
18 books in translation
31 audiobooks
Just over 25,000 pages
Looking at the 2021 numbers gave me an opportunity to set some goals for 2022, which I always enjoy. I’ve dubbed this year “twenty-twenty-tome,” the year of long books (the name’s a stretch, but I don’t care). I usually prefer short novels (125-150 pages is the sweet spot for me), and struggle to get excited by long novels or nonfiction. So this year, I plan to read four novels that are 600 pages or more:
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (I’ve read the first two sections but not the whole book)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy, translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen (this is the first in a trilogy that appears difficult to find, so I’m linking to the Wikipedia page instead)