I want to do a little analysis of my reading habits over time after looking at an NPR article that S sent me about women reading more than men and reading more fiction than men. I want to see how much I've read over the last few years, as well as the breakdown between fiction and non-fiction. Starting in mid-2004 I started recording all the books I read in a little book, so to go completely digital, I will transcribe them here.
Moneyball by Michael Lewis, NF, May 2004
The Secret Gospel of St Thomas by Elaine Pagels, NF, May-June 2004
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, F, May 2004
(These were books I worked on when AJ and I went to North Carolina for a get away when I was pregnant with. Doesn't seem like it's been 3+ years since then.)
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, F, Aug 2004
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, F, Sept 2004
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, F, Sept-Oct 2004
Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker, NF, Nov 2004
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, F, Dec 2004
Embers by Sandor Marai, F, Nov-Dec 2004
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes, NF, Dec 2004-Jan 2005
The Not So Big House by Sarah Suzanka, NF, Jan 2005
Bliss by Ronit Matalon, F, Jan 2005 (wow--I barely remember this one. )
Consuming Kids by Susan Linn, NF, Feb 2005
Born to Buy by Juliet Schor, NF, Feb 2005
Gift of Love by Marc Gafni, NF, March 2005
Families that Work by Gopnick and Meyers, NF, Apr 2005
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, F, Apr 2005
The Culprit and the Cure by Aldana, NF, Apr 2005
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner, NF, Apr 2005
The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness by Edward Hallowell, NF, Apr 2005
The Great Divorce by CS Lewis, F?, May 2005
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormanism, NF, June 2005
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling, F, July 2005
Blindness by Jose Saramago, F, July 2005
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, F, Aug 2005
Map of a Child by Darshak, NF, Aug/Sept 2005
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier, NF, Sept 2005
City of Falling Angels by John Berendt, NF, Fall 2005
Waiting For Birdy by Catherine Newman, NF, Sept 2005
1-2-3 Magic (Parenting book), NF, Fall 2005
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, F, Fall 2005
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, NF, Dec 2005
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, F, Dec 2005
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King, NF, Dec 2005
(I read these on our trip to Italy)
Medici Money by Tim Parks, NF, Jan 2006
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes, NF, Jan 2006
Faster by J. Gleick, NF, Feb 2006
An Italian Education by Tim Parks, NF, Feb 2006
The Wonder of Boys, NF, Feb 2006
Pedestals and Podiums by Martha Sonntag Bradley, NF, Mar 2006
I got this one from The Strand after I defended my diss
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell, F, Mar 2006
Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Bushman, NF, Mar-Apr 2006
Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt, NF, May 2006
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, NF, May 2006 (didn't finish)
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell, NF, May 2006
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, F, May 2006
(These four I read on our cruise)
And I think from here, I started keeping track on my blog
So, from May 2004-May 2006, I read 46 books, and 35% were fiction.
Since July 2006, I have read 42 books (that picked up quite a bit with no diss to worry about). 16 were fiction and 26 were non-fiction, for a total of 38% fiction. Not too different from before.
In the NPR story, there were no statistics on what the proportion of fiction to non-fiction is for women readers, only that women read more than men and read more fiction than men. (Only 20% of fiction readers are men.) So, I have no idea where I fall in general reading trends. They do report that among avid readers, women read 9 books per year. What does that make me? I must fall in the major nerd category.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Reading analysis
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That is amazing. I think that I have not read that many books in my life! After this semester at UNC, I think I will have read that many books in articles though! You are inspiring you your book reading!
http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/gafni_Mordechai.html
WARNING:
Marc Gafni Should Be Scene As A Danger to Women and Children.
Born as Marc Winiarz, Marc Gafni changed his name several times using multiple spellings. Winiarz is also known as Mordechai Winiarz, Marc Gafni and or Mordechai Gafni..
Winiarz/Gafni grew up in the midwest, yet went to both high school and college in New York. After college he became a Rabbinical student at Yeshiva University, yet did not get his rabbinical ordination (smeicha) from YU. Instead, Mordechai Gafni obtained his ordination from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.
In 2004, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the spiritual leader of the Israeli community of Efrat, was going to revoke the rabbinic ordination he gave Rabbi Winiarz/Gafni many years ago when they had a close rabbi-student relationship. When Gafni heard of Rabbi Riskin's wishes, he wrote a letter "returning" his semicha to spare his former teacher any further embarrassment.
In the early 1980's, when Mordechai was nineteen he sexually abused a thirteen-year-old girl in her home. It wasn't until many years later that Marc Gafni confessed to the molestation while being interviewed by Gary Rosenblatt, editor of the New York Jewish Week. Marc stated: "I was a stupid kid and we were in love," the rabbi said. "She was 14 going on 35, and I never forced her"
In 1983 Mordechai Winiarz was married to his first wife. He was also a youth leader for a group called "JPSY" (Jewish Public School Youth). The group involved working with at risk teenagers. It was during this time he was accused of molesting a fifteen-year-old girl and an attempted sexual assault of a young adult woman. At the time the rabbis accused him of cult like practices. Both women went to various rabbis looking for help, yet nothing was done except he was chased out of town, moving to Boca Raton, Florida. There was some sort of scandl and he fled Florida suddenly.
In 1991 he left the Unitied States to start a new life in Israel, changing his name to Mordechai Gafni.
May, 2006 new allegations were made against confessed child molester Rabbi Mordechai Gafni . This time the allegations were made by three women who filed a complaint with the police in Haifa (Israel). The new claims were of professional sexual misconduct / clergy sexual abuse. The alleged offenses occurred during Torah lessons given by Gafni.
Immediately after the charges were filed Rabbi Mordechai Gafni confessed and fled Israel for the United States. He first landed in Boston, MA, where it is believed he stayed with one of his many female friends. There were rumors that soon after arriving in Boston he continued on to Boulder, CO and stayed with a colleague and then moved on to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Marc Gafni is involved with the Buddhist community of Salt Lake City. It is believed that he is in the process of trying to reinvent himself again as he did back in the 1980's after the first allegations were made against him of child molestation. Marc Gafni is considered dangerous to women and to both male and female children. Rumors are floating around that he is involved in BDSM community (Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism, Masochism).
The Awareness Center is seeking justice for all of the survivors of Rabbi Mordechai Winiarz (past and present). If you have any information regarding the current location of Rabbi Marc Gafni please notify The Awareness Center, Inc.
The Awareness Center, Inc.
443-857-5560
http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/gafni_Mordechai.html
WARNING:
Marc Gafni Should Be Scene As A Danger to Women and Children.
Born as Marc Winiarz, Marc Gafni changed his name several times using multiple spellings. Winiarz is also known as Mordechai Winiarz, Marc Gafni and or Mordechai Gafni..
Winiarz/Gafni grew up in the midwest, yet went to both high school and college in New York. After college he became a Rabbinical student at Yeshiva University, yet did not get his rabbinical ordination (smeicha) from YU. Instead, Mordechai Gafni obtained his ordination from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.
In 2004, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the spiritual leader of the Israeli community of Efrat, was going to revoke the rabbinic ordination he gave Rabbi Winiarz/Gafni many years ago when they had a close rabbi-student relationship. When Gafni heard of Rabbi Riskin's wishes, he wrote a letter "returning" his semicha to spare his former teacher any further embarrassment.
In the early 1980's, when Mordechai was nineteen he sexually abused a thirteen-year-old girl in her home. It wasn't until many years later that Marc Gafni confessed to the molestation while being interviewed by Gary Rosenblatt, editor of the New York Jewish Week. Marc stated: "I was a stupid kid and we were in love," the rabbi said. "She was 14 going on 35, and I never forced her"
In 1983 Mordechai Winiarz was married to his first wife. He was also a youth leader for a group called "JPSY" (Jewish Public School Youth). The group involved working with at risk teenagers. It was during this time he was accused of molesting a fifteen-year-old girl and an attempted sexual assault of a young adult woman. At the time the rabbis accused him of cult like practices. Both women went to various rabbis looking for help, yet nothing was done except he was chased out of town, moving to Boca Raton, Florida. There was some sort of scandl and he fled Florida suddenly.
In 1991 he left the Unitied States to start a new life in Israel, changing his name to Mordechai Gafni.
May, 2006 new allegations were made against confessed child molester Rabbi Mordechai Gafni . This time the allegations were made by three women who filed a complaint with the police in Haifa (Israel). The new claims were of professional sexual misconduct / clergy sexual abuse. The alleged offenses occurred during Torah lessons given by Gafni.
Immediately after the charges were filed Rabbi Mordechai Gafni confessed and fled Israel for the United States. He first landed in Boston, MA, where it is believed he stayed with one of his many female friends. There were rumors that soon after arriving in Boston he continued on to Boulder, CO and stayed with a colleague and then moved on to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Marc Gafni is involved with the Buddhist community of Salt Lake City. It is believed that he is in the process of trying to reinvent himself again as he did back in the 1980's after the first allegations were made against him of child molestation. Marc Gafni is considered dangerous to women and to both male and female children. Rumors are floating around that he is involved in BDSM community (Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism, Masochism).
The Awareness Center is seeking justice for all of the survivors of Rabbi Mordechai Winiarz (past and present). If you have any information regarding the current location of Rabbi Marc Gafni please notify The Awareness Center, Inc.
The Awareness Center, Inc.
443-857-5560
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