The Weekly Post

One last 2006 retrospective for you — radical anti-capitalist blogger, librarian and tech teacher Jessamyn West reviews her year in books. Her list appealed to me, so I reprint it here. For the full test of her post, visit her blog, or check it out on the letters to the editor page of this week's Seven Days.

number of books read in 2006: 60
number of books read in 2005: 86
number of books read in 2004: 103
number of books read in 2003: 75
number of books read in 2002: 91
number of books read in 2001: 78
average read per month: 5
average read per week: 1.25
number read in worst month: 0 (December)
number read in best month: 8 (November, August)
percentage by male authors: 59
percentage by female authors: 41
fiction as percentage of total: 60
non-fiction as percentage of total: 40
percentage of total liked: 77
percentage of total ambivalent: 23
percentage of total disliked: 0

Looks like she's slipping a little — only 60 books read this year. Sheesh. That's more than a book a week! Who has that kind of time?