Friday, June 1, 2012

May Books

MAY 2012

1. Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
Read in: 11 days
Pages: 403
Quotes: “…Great men were often eccentric, unpredictable, and enigmatic, and just because we did not understand the path they chose, we should not doubt their vision.”
“ ‘Don’t you worry about syphilis?’
‘Syphilis is a wives’ tale.’
‘It is not. You get a chancre on your manhood, then later you go mad, your limbs drop off, and you die. Manet died of syphilis.’
‘Nonsense. Syphilis is a myth. It’s Greek, I think—everyone has head of the myth of syphilis.’
‘That’s the myth of Sisyphus. He spends his whole life pushing a large stone up a hill.’
‘With his penis? No wonder her has a chancre on it!’ “

2. Mercury by Hope Larson
Read in: 1 day
Pages: 234

3. An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Read in: 3 days
Pages: 292
Quote: “…art…it’s what lies between our dreams and reality.”

4. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Volume 5 by Naoko Takeuchi
Read in: 1 day
Pages: 260

5. The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
Read in: 6 days
Pages: 88 of 256 pages (just couldn’t get through it!)
Quote: Things people despise – People who have a reputation for being exceptionally good-natured.”

6. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Read in: 6 days
Pages: 286
Quote: “It was not a life, if lived without love.”

7. Eyes Like Leaves by Charles de Lint
Read in: 6 days
Pages: 320
Quotes: “It is as much the search for wisdom that makes one wise, as the wisdom itself.”
“It’s the choices we make that define who we are—not our blood.”
“Words were such gossamer things, but once spoken, they gained weight and couldn’t be taken back.”

8. The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley
Read in: 3 days
Pages: 284

Total Books Completed: 7
Total Pages Read: 2,167
Average Pages Per Day: 70
Average Days To Read A Book: 4.4

1 more book read than in May 2011.
89 more pages read.
3 more pages per day.
1.1 more days to read a book.

The stats between this year and last year were very close! This May I couldn't finish The Pillow Book, and last may I couldn't finish The Once & Future King. For those two books I didn't count the days it took to read them or count them as a finished book, but I did add the pages from each to my total pages read (not that anyone but me cares about how I count this stuff).

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