I read 164 books in 2015 and tracked them all in a spreadsheet. Here’s what I learned.

At the end of every book I loved, I felt transformed. I wanted to tell everyone about it, if not read it again right away. The other books, the ones I didn’t care about, I read because I thought they would make me better in some way — more well-read, perhaps, or even more interesting. But reading books I wasn’t invested in just made me bored and disengaged; I would have been better off doing something else.

I became a librarian because talking about books is one of the only things I like as much as reading them

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