My 94-year-old grandmother has kept a list of every book she ever read since she was 14 years old. Amazing archive of one person’s mind over nearly a century pic.twitter.com/Cu9znTgkJO
— Ben Myers (@_BenMyers_) March 20, 2023
Ben Myers, a professor of theology and literature at a college in Australia, writes that his grandmother, who was born in Germany, recorded every book that she read from the age of 14 until she passed away last week. She provided complete records of every book for 80 years. It's a total of 1,658 books, which is approximately one book every two weeks.
The lady was, I gather, a Serbian who lived in Germany before immigrating to Australia after World War II. In addition to English and Serbian, could read German and Hungarian.
I've done something similar for the past dozen years or so--just an ongoing reading list. Perhaps it will give something for my own grandchildren to ponder.