Lots of folks keep track of how many books and pages they've read each year, so I decided to try to do that also in 2024. I don't know if I remembered to write them all down or not, but at the end of the year, I recorded that I had read 19 books and 7,268 pages, for an average of almost 400 pages/book. Is that good? I don't know. Most of my reading is not light reading, and so doesn't go very fast - and I'm not a fast reader anyway. I read mostly theology and history, and some historical novels. I also read a lot of other things, like journals and articles, and that's not included here.
My books for the year? That's hard to say. I liked my reading in medieval history and things that led up to the Reformation. I liked my readings of history (American mostly) and learning more about that. I read an historical novel about what might have happened if Abraham Lincoln had survived the assassination attempt and then been impeached! If you nailed me down and forced me to pick, I'd pick two:
And also The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman, an examination of how we got to where we are in our history as far as our morality and thinking.
So far, for 2025, I'm 500 or so pages into my next book already, a history of the United States between 1812 and 1848. I didn't know (or remember) much about this time period, so it's been quite interesting. How did the US grow and what challenges did it face after the generation of the Founding Father passed? International relations, improved transportation and communications, monetary policy, Indian removal, religious fervor, the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Matin van Buren - lots of factors!
AND, I've got a stack of books in the queue! I already had a pile, got 7 or so more for Christmas, and then bought 3 more at the used book store. So 2025 could be a very good reading year . . .
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