People have asked me "How many books do I read a year?" with the expectation that I am going to throw some big number at them.: The answer is simply about 20. This number surprises most people that know me for I am a notoriously voracious reader.
I tend to read one really truly good book a month. I am not concerned at all with reading lots of books. I once figured out that if I read one book per day, which of course is impossible. That would only allow me to read 356 books a year multiplied by my years of reading available. I am now 57 and have been reading since I was 5. So, some easy math is that I could have only read, 18,250 books so far, and I am hopefully reading until I reach the wonderful, ripe old age of 97 which is 40 more years, I could only read 14,600 more books, plus a potential 24.25 leap year books. A limiting total of 32,874.25 possible books in my lifetime. According to Google, the are 130 million books in the world. This would be a mere 0.025 percent of all of the books in the world.
Suffice it to say, I am content with reading 20 truly good books a year. At my current teaching job, I am able to attend motivational speaking engagements and have begun to follow one of the speakers, TJ Griffin. The first time that I heard him speak last winter, he shared that "Smart people write books to share with you what they know." I heard this and have since started incorporating some really good non-fiction in my reading. I am also embracing audio books now, especially for the non-fiction.
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