The Reading Journal: 2024

sinner man by lawrence block

I don’t talk about books as much as I do movies simply because I watch a lot more movies than I read books. I love reading. I love books. But I’d be lying if I said I read all the time. I tend to get distracted by movies and TV shows, social media and…well, this blog.

I try to set time aside each night to do a little reading. Sometimes that works. Sometimes I play silly games until way too late at night and just go to bed.

But Goodreads does a fun little end-of-the-year summary so I thought I’d talk about books for a minute.

I read 17 books in 2024 which seems abysmally small. Especially since half of them were comic books. No shade on comics, I love them, but they do tend to be a little shorter than your typical novel.

Outside of comics I mostly read detective stories which is no surprise and a wonderful book of TV essays by Emily Nussbaum. That reminds me how much I love a good cultural essay and that I should find more of them online.

Anyway, you can see the stats over at Goodreads.