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Book log 2013

Title (Series)AuthorStarted      Finished      Pages
Language in Thought and Action S. I. Hayakawa 24-Nov-12 14-Jan-13 307
One Thing at a Time Cindy Glovinsky 28-Nov-12 15-Jan-13 187
The Elements of Journalism Bill Covach and Tom Rosenstiel 01-Dec-12 05-Jan-13 258
Niccolo Rising Dorothy Dunnett 27-Dec-12 01-Jan-13 470
Islam: An Introduction Teach Yourself 09-Jan-13 21-Jan-13 386
The Buddha's Life as told on the Borobudur Titus Leber 21-Jan-13 29-Jan-13 376
The Prodigal Tongue Mark Abley 21-Jan-13 29-Jan-13 238
How to Remember Anything Mark Channon 29-Jan-13 09-Feb-13 232
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm 29-Jan-13 31-Dec-13 503
Dying of the Light George R. R. Martin 31-Jan-13 04-Feb-13 254
The Man Who Forgot How to Read Howard Engel 04-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 157
Be Your Own Counsellor Sheila Dainow 09-Feb-13 11-Feb-13 183
Switch Chip and Dan Heath 11-Feb-13 17-Feb-13 294
Weiwei-isms Ai Weiwei 17-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 152
Snuff (Discworld 39) Terry Pratchett 18-Feb-13 24-Feb-13 476
What the Dog Saw Malcolm Gladwell 25-Feb-13 08-Mar-13 503
The Logic of Life Tim Harford 26-Feb-13 04-Mar-13 240
The Difference Between Malaysians and Singaporeans Ravi Veloo and Cheng Puay Koon 04-Mar-13 04-Mar-13 98
English as It Is Broken The Straits Times 04-Mar-13 06-Mar-13 196
English as It Is Broken 2 The Straits Times 07-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 196
Gateway to Singapore Culture Asiapac Culture 09-Mar-13 10-Mar-13 90
The Weekend Novelist Rewrites the Novel Robert J. Ray 10-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 266
Paperweight Stephen Fry 16-Mar-13 22-Mar-13 470
Being Wrong Kathryn Schulz 23-Mar-13 31-Mar-13 391
Mrs. Dolby's Memory Magic Karen Dolby 23-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 275
Words and Ideas Hans P. Guth 31-Mar-13 03-May-13 487
Biting the Wax Tadpole Elizabeth Little 04-Apr-13 04-Apr-13 186
The Design of Future Things Donald A. Norman 05-Apr-13 08-Apr-13 192
Googled Ken Auletta 10-Apr-13 25-Apr-13 338
The Last Unicorn (graphic novel) Peter S. Beagle 11-Apr-13 11-Apr-13 200
Man Walks Into a Bar 2 Jonathan Swan 22-Apr-13 17-Jul-13 556
The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 25-Apr-13 03-May-13 340
Gone (Gone 1) Michael Grant 03-May-13 06-May-13 560
Hunger (Gone 2) Michael Grant 06-May-13 08-May-13 586
Lies (Gone 3) Michael Grant 08-May-13 09-May-13 472
Plague (Gone 4) Michael Grant 09-May-13 13-May-13 526
Fear (Gone 5) Michael Grant 13-May-13 13-May-13 549
Make Your Website Sell Jed Wylie 13-May-13 20-May-13 344
Rework Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson 20-May-13 21-May-13 279
Light (Gone 6) Michael Grant 21-May-13 22-May-13 437
Help Is on the Way Scott Meyer 22-May-13 24-May-13 119
This Lullaby Sarah Dessen 23-May-13 24-May-13 379
Lock and Key Sarah Dessen 24-May-13 26-May-13 421
Just Listen Sarah Dessen 26-May-13 27-May-13 371
Made with 90% Recycled Art Scott Meyer 27-May-13 27-May-13 119
The Curse of the Masking-Tape Mummy Scott Meyer 27-May-13 28-May-13 150
How Low Can You Go? Tom Chesshyre 28-May-13 29-May-13 264
The Happiness Advantage Shawn Achor 30-May-13 31-May-13 210
How to Tutor Your Own Child Marina Koestler Ruben 31-May-13 01-Jun-13 187
Help! Oliver Burkeman 02-Jun-13 06-Jun-13 250
Mindfulness Made Easy Martha Langley 06-Jun-13 12-Jun-13 207
13 Is the New 18 Beth J. Harpaz 12-Jun-13 14-Jun-13 271
Drive Daniel H. Pink 14-Jun-13 01-Jul-13 220
The Woman Who Thought Too Much Joanne Limburg 16-Jun-13 07-Jul-13 321
Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time 13) Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson 17-Jun-13 15-Jul-13 1219
Rethinking Friendship Liz Spencer and Ray Pahl 15-Jul-13 23-Jul-13 223
Fortune & Feng Shui 2013 Rooster Lillian Too and Jennifer Too 17-Jul-13 12-Aug-13 241
Liespotting Pamela Meyer 17-Jul-13 21-Jul-13 215
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was Barbara Sher 24-Jul-13 20-Aug-13 315
Word Watching Alex Horne 24-Jul-13 29-Jul-13 324
Something Borrowed Emily Giffin 29-Jul-13 31-Jul-13 388
Timeline Michael Crichton 31-Jul-13 05-Aug-13 491
Bzrk (Bzrk 1) Michael Grant 05-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 407
Dairy Queen Catherine Gilbert Murdock 11-Aug-13 12-Aug-13 275
Thesaurus of Extremes Michael Hatch 13-Aug-13 22-Sep-13 226
Adapt Tim Harford 15-Aug-13 26-Sep-13 265
No Blade of Grass John Christopher 09-Sep-13 11-Sep-13 190
A Zoo in My Luggage Gerald Durrell 12-Sep-13 15-Sep-13 191
Anna of Byzantium Tracy Barrett 15-Sep-13 17-Sep-13 209
Midnight Blue Pauline Fisk 17-Sep-13 22-Sep-13 217
The 108 Names of Ganesha Ashima Singh 23-Sep-13 23-Sep-13 130
Eva Peter Dickinson 23-Sep-13 26-Sep-13 207
Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder 27-Sep-13 08-Oct-13 394
BZRK Reloaded (Bzrk 2) Michael Grant 08-Oct-13 12-Oct-13 432
Love and War (Library Wars 1) Kiiro Yumi 09-Oct-13 09-Oct-13 200
The Mind's Eye Oliver Sacks 12-Oct-13 16-Oct-13 240
An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks 16-Oct-13 21-Oct-13 304
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Amy Chua 21-Oct-13 21-Oct-13 232
A Trip of the Tongue Elizabeth Little 21-Oct-13 01-Nov-13 262
Uglies (Uglies 1) Scott Westerfeld 01-Nov-13 02-Nov-13 425
Pretties (Uglies 2) Scott Westerfeld 02-Nov-13 04-Nov-13 370
Specials (Uglies 3) Scott Westerfeld 04-Nov-13 04-Nov-13 372
Extras (Uglies 4) Scott Westerfeld 04-Nov-13 06-Nov-13 417
Little Hut of Leaping Fishes Chiew-Siah Tei 06-Nov-13 10-Nov-13 389
An Essential Guide to Singlish Miel 06-Nov-13 06-Nov-13 163
Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng 11-Nov-13 26-Nov-13 492
An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics F. Ungerer and H. J Schmid 12-Nov-13 21-Nov-13 280
My Father's Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett 26-Nov-13 27-Nov-13 87
Lucky Child Loung Ung 27-Nov-13 28-Nov-13 265
Elmer and the Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett 27-Nov-13 27-Nov-13 87
The Dragons of Blueland Ruth Stiles Gannett 27-Nov-13 27-Nov-13 78
The Year of Living Dangerously Christopher J. Koch 28-Nov-13 02-Dec-13 296
Dodger Terry Pratchett 02-Dec-13 06-Dec-13 403
Song of the Gargoyle Zilpha Keatley Snyder 04-Dec-13 05-Dec-13 232
The Witches of Worm Zilpha Keatley Snyder 05-Dec-13 06-Dec-13 183
The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder 07-Dec-13 08-Dec-13 215
The Gypsy Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder 08-Dec-13 11-Dec-13 217
I Am Jackie Chan Jackie Chan with Jeff Yang 11-Dec-13 19-Dec-13 399
The Stars Shine Down and The Best Laid Plans Sidney Sheldon 19-Dec-13 22-Dec-13 786
Stealing the Elf-King's Roses Diane Duane 22-Dec-13 29-Dec-13 401
The Divine Leads Sri Sakthi Narayani Amma 29-Dec-13 30-Dec-13 112

101 books finished in 2013.

31,205 pages in the selected books (an average of about 308 pages each).

That's an average of about 3 days per book (assuming no overlap) or 11 days per book (taking actual overlap into consideration), which is equivalent to 101 books (or 31,290 pages) per year. Or 86 pages per day, actually.

Typical number of books in progress simultaneously: 0.

Fiction books: 44 (44%)
Non-fiction books: 57 (56%)
Books not marked in db as fiction or nonfiction: 0 (0%)

Last meaningful update to site: 24 September, 2011