I Know I'm Weird, Part 2

In September 2005, I wrote about recording all the books that I've read.  Here is what I wrote:

It was in England that I discovered the joy of reading.  I still love to read.  I read novels, true stories, mysteries, detective stories, romances, educational-type books, religious and inspirational books, and all kinds of other books.  My mother, two sisters, and I would go to the library on a regular basis.  To keep track of the books that I had read, I took an idea from my mother and expanded it.  I started with a little 6-ring, 5- by 3-inch, looseleaf memo book.  On top of each piece of paper, I wrote the name of the author.  Below that I wrote the title of the book and the date that I finished reading it.  Sometimes I wrote the names of the main characters or a little about the book.  If I read a book a second (or third or fourth) time, I wrote that date down too.

It is weird because I still do it.  I have nine of those little memo books.  I have recorded every book that I've read since 1960.   The number is now 1,631.  Okay, you think I'm crazy, but it is great idea because it has kept me from buying or reading books that I've read before.

 

I've had to buy another little memo book, making a total of 10.  Last night I finished my 1,800th book!  Of those books, I read 66 of them more than once, some several times.  I guess some things never change--I'm still weird.