All Things Expounded

Since I’ve been using LibraryThing, I’ve kept track of which books I’ve read. And I’ve also went back and tagged some books I’ve formerly read. And I’ve just recently read my 700th book!! Well, sort of.  The number remains symbolic, since I don’t have a log of most of the books I’ve read as a child. 700 books would mean 2 books per month, and I think I’ve always clipped along at a pace greater than that, even as a child.

The 700th book was A Few Quick Ones by P.G. Wodehouse. A good read, indeed….even though one of the characters appears to be of the Supralapsarian persuasion, or at least prone to conversations on the topic .

While 700 books is a fairly large stack and probably more than your average person would read (especially when we hear that 1 in 4 adults have not read a book in the last year), it’s only a small sliver of what’s out there!! And I’m still “in-the-dark” in regard to some of the most renowned classics.

But I’m thankful for what I have gleaned in those 700 books. Some were not worth reading, but many were!  In fact, out of the 200-300 books that I’ve rated over at LibraryThing, a whopping 80-something are 5 star books!

Here are some interesting statistics. Out of the books I’ve read:

• Top authors: 3.5% by P.G. Wodehouse, 1.5% are by Francis Schaeffer, 1.1% by Kurt Vonnegut, 1% by Mark Twain, 1% by C.S. Lewis, 0.8% by Douglas Wilson, 0.8% by John Piper, 0.8% by Ian Fleming, and 0.7% by Robert Heinlein
• 2% are from my church library, 4.7% are biographies
• topics: 16.2% are fiction, 9% are works of theology, 6.5% focus on christian living, 4.2% are on reformed theology, 7% are works of philosophy, 4.2% are about politics, 3.4% are about war 9.7% are classified as humor, 2.9% are about economics, 2.5% are about wildlife, 4.5% are about the 1960s, 1.7% of them are about libertarianism, 5.5% of them are british literature, 1% of them are russian literature, 1% of them are about Cuba, 1.8% of them are about Africa
• 2% were originally published in French, 1% were originally published in Russian, 1.8% were originally published in German
• I plan to reread 3.5% of them some day