At the start of 2009, I set a goal to read 30,000 pages by year's end. I am measuring progress in pages, rather than titles, to avoid last year's bias toward shorter books. Here's what I read in December:
- Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks (review)
- Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith (review)
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks (review)
Pages Read: 1,165
Year-to-Date: 33,933
My December purchases came in two main waves, a large order from Amazon at the beginning of the month which brought several of Beethoven's symphonies as well as a pair of two-disc sets from Rubinstein's renowned catalog of Chopin, the Mazurkas and the Nocturnes. Later in the month I got several more discs at bargain basement prices from a seller on Half.com, and finished off the month with two of Mahler's symphonies purchased at my local Borders with 30% off coupons.
