how many books you read every month?

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anyway, was reading a post there about a recent survey on the reading habit of Chinese people, and 51% of us read at least 1 book per momth, the review says this number is going down but I still found it quite comforting if this is really an average number which was conducted in a wide scale. I know that people before graduating from university read a lot of books but most of them are very practical - in a Chinese tranditional (state-own) book store you can see heaps of shelves of reference books for subjects that students are putting all their effort in. I believe that makes up a huge part of the survey result. I remember the time when I used to have 2 desks filled with reference books for my last year in high school while preparing for National Entrance Exam for University (that's such a memory you can ask any Chinese student who survived out of it!!) I am not sure whether I can live up to this statistic since I am reading much slower now in a world of non-native languages. But I am glad that I am still doing so! : ) What book are you reading at the moment?

my recent list in a random order:
Elfriede Jelinek "the Piano Teacher" (love the movie and soundtrack!!!)
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln "Holy Blood Holy Grail"
Paulo Coelho "the Prigrimage"
and quite a bunch of good good Chinese books brought back from China : )

btw, love the new look of my blog!

Happy reading and blogging!