books read this year

I used to read all the time, back before I started my PhD. I kind of thought that when I finished it I would return to reading all the time. Then I moved to Sweden and created a rule for myself "No fiction in English, only in Swedish*". This is doing good things for my ability to read Swedish, but it is much slower going. blamebrampton just posted reviews of the Books she read in February of this year. She read nearly as many in that month as I have read all this year. More if you count the fact that a couple of books I finished this year were actually started last year.

So, what have I managed to finish? So far it is mostly things I have read before in the English version:

( Liftarens Guide till Gallaxen )

( Anne på Ingelside )

( Familjen Robinson )

( Huset vid Plommonån )

( Vid Silversjöns Strand )

( Liten Stunden på Prarienen )

At this point I am able to read in Swedish for much longer at a session, and am sometimes resenting the fact that I have to put the book down to do other things. Indeed, I am only six days into the current book (Gyllande År, av Laura Ingals Wilder), and I am 2/3 of the way through it, so I am hopeful that while the year's reading got off to a slow start it will creep up towards a reasonable number before the end of the year. I will try to remember to report my progress now and then...


*OK, I confess, that I am reading aloud Patrick Rothfus's The Name of the Wind to lord_kjar, even though we only have it in English, but reading aloud isn't the same as reading for oneself, and it is taking us months to go through it, and not just because it is a HUGE book...