I'm something of a compulsive record keeper, if occasionally an absent-minded one. I keep track of the books I read, the articles I write, the movies I watch, etc.
Although I thought that my review output would go down in 2005, it actually increased by 25%. I also wrote two book-related articles that weren't reviews: one a profile of author Libby Fischer Hellmann for the Chicago Sun-Times; the other a round-up on Bouchercon for the Kansas City Star.
My reading output was also up significanly: 40% over 2004's book count. As always, the vast majority were crime fiction novels.
So here are the numbers from last year:
- 175 Books read
- 70 Books reviewed (3 of them more than once)
- 25 Review articles (these are separate articles, often with more than one book in them)
- 1 Author profile
- 1 Journalistic article
Here are the publications I wrote for:
- Chicago Sun-Times: 55 books reviewed in 11 articles, plus 1 profile
- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: 2 books reviewed in 1 article
- Philadelphia Inquirer: 6 books reviewed in 6 articles
- Boston Globe: 5 books reviewed in 5 articles
- Washington Examiner: 5 books reviewed in 1 article
- National Review Online: 1 book reviewed in 1 article
- Kansas City Star: 1 article
All in all, a productive year on both the reading and reviewing front. Hopefully 2006 will be much the same, with even more productivity in fiction writing.
