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100 Books In 366 Days – A Quirk

A curious little thing happened tonight when I was doing a  little reading.  I was reading one book that Goodreads.com lists as having 256 pages.  I stopped on page 48.  A little while later, I picked up another book that I have been intending to read.  I read that book for a bit, stopping on page 48.  It just so happens that Goodreads.com lists that book as having 256 pages.

Two books, both 256 pages, and I stopped reading both at page 48.

Freaky.

100 Books in 366 Days – Bookshelves Explained

Bibliographies at the University Library of Graz

Bibliographies at the University Library of Graz (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anyone who had been following my 100 books in 366 days probably has drifted over to my Goodreads.com page.  And, undoubtedly, you probably have seen the shear number of different book categories that I have represented as bookshelves.  Given the shear number of bookshelves on there, I thought I would explain what some of them are.

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100 Books in 366 Days – Update

booksJust a quick update of things with the 100 books in 366 days plan.

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Reading

Writing Update – August 21, 2011

Did not do much work on either the rewrite or the world building.  But then, world building for my stories is not really my thing.

I did post the 9th installment of my fiction blog, tentatively titled Coverage of the Dead.  I posted the link to that blog here, and it is on my side panel as well.

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