Bookworm Report, February 2006

Another frigid month has come and gone. We're that much closer to warm weather and long bike rides. Sanity will return.

The List, if you please.

Bookworm Review
Year	Pages	Books
2001	3,049	11
2002	3,409	8
2003	1,911	5
2004	2,597	8
2005	923	3
2006	3,730	12

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Bloody Mary by JA Konrath
• Bubbles A Broad by Sarah Strohmeyer
• Cheet by Anna Davis
• Point of Honour by Madeline Robins
• Messenger by Lois Lowry
• Mary, Mary : a novel by James Patterson
• Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer
• Off Main Street by Michael Perry
• The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
• Girl's Night In by Various

For the year, I've read 23 books, or 7,164 pages, which averages to 12 books a month, or 3,582 pages per month, and an average book length of 311 pages.

I should start a FAQ section as I get this question all the time: "How do you read so much in one month?" I'll tell you my secrets, but no judgements can be passed. I read fast and I don't clean except for what will kill us. My kids watch television while I read. The reading fast is the biggest trick. When I was single, I averaged 18 books a month. I didn't have television at the time. It's all about priorities.

And while I love my kids to death, I can only watch Blue's Clues and Thomas the Tank Engine so many times before my head explodes. Yes, I do play with them, but during a 30 minute video, I can read 50-60 pages. See, it's the reading fast that does it.