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[quote=Anonymous]I've read 76 books this year and will probably finish a few more. I don't read audiobooks, they just don't work for me. I like to read two books at once, which means I always have something going that I feel like picking up. And when I finish one, I can continue on with the other if I'm not positive what I want to read next. I read in the evening (I'm not a TV/movie watcher), but I also have occasional downtime at work that I read during. Goodreads tracks page count, and I usually average about 80 pages a day over the year. I like that they track that because I do read a lot of long books.

I get most new releases from the library for my kindle and just work the wait lists. I buy maybe 20 books a year new, and I also shop the library book sales.

To the person who asked about long books - I love long books. I feel I can really sink into them. Some of my favorite long books are classics like Middlemarch, any Trollope novel (I've read about 18 of his), Anna Karenina, and the ultimate long book - Remembrance of Time Past by Proust. That I read over an entire year and I loved it. I definitely want to reread it at some point.

The only really long contemporary novel I can think of that I've read was Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman and I thought it was fantastic. It's experimental, so you have to put a little effort in, but it was really memorable. [/quote]

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