2,000

For my first 1,000 DDR* days, I took a picture of me holding all of the 26 books I'd read during that time. It was pretty close to all that I could hold. So this time around (1,001 to 2,000), there was no way to do such a picture. I'd gone from 1K's 26 books / 13,449 pages to 2K's 43 books / 29,801pages. So there's this:

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DDR Day 1001 to Day 2000:

(1) Leviathan 63 days, 729 pages

(2) Stalingrad 27 days, 982 pages

(3) Life and Fate 26 days, 880 pages

(4) The Second World War 34 + 32 + 40 + 43 + 31 + 32 days = 212 days, 4,379 pages

(5) Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming 10 days, 572 pages

(6) The Great Bridge 25 days, 636 pages

(7) The Path Between the Seas 29 days, 698 pages

(8) Blake: Prophet Against Empire, 23 days, 523 pages

(9) Jerusalem 61 days, 1,266 pages

(10) Voice of the Fire 9 days, 320 pages

(11) The Fountainhead 15 days, 720 pages

(12) The Pacific Trilogy: Pacific Crucible 23 days, 640 pages

(13) The Pacific Trilogy: The Conquering Tide 28 days, 656 pages

(14) The Pacific Trilogy: Twilight of the Gods 31 days, 944 pages

(15) Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence 13 days, 304 pages

(16) Toward Jazz 18 days, 224 pages

(17) The Worlds of Jazz 13 days, 279 pages

(18) To Be or Not...to Bop 14 days, 571 pages

(19) Kind of Blue 4 days, 224 pages

(20) Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and his Masterpiece: 5 days, 256 pages

(21) Miles: The Autobiography 16 days, 445 pages

(21) A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album: 8 days, 287 pages

(22) Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest 8 days, 304 pages

(23) Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings 11 days 325 pages

(24) The Pickwick Papers 28 days, 983 pages

(25) Oliver Twist 16 days, 542 pages

(26) Nicholas Nickleby 27 days, 1,045 pages

(27) The Old Curiosity Shop 22 days, 753 pages

(28) Barnaby Rudge 24 days, 866 pages

(29) Master Humprhey's Clock 4 days, 145 pages

(30) Martin Chuzzlewit 32 days, 1,045 pages

(31) American Notes 10 days, 324 pages

(32) Pictures From Italy 7 days, 211 pages

(33) Christmas Stories Volume I 10 days, 456 pages

(34) Christmas Stories Volume II 15 days, 472 pages

(35) Christmas Books 17 days, 525 pages

(36) The Annotated Christmas Carol 7 days, 380 pages

(37) Dombey and Son 30 days, 1,089 pages

(38) Sketches by Boz 22 days, 834 pages

(39) David Copperfield 21 days, 1,092 pages

(40) The Uncommercial Traveller 12 days, 440 pages

(41) A Child's History of England 10 days, 491 pages

(42) Reprinted Pieces 14 days, 368 pages

(43) Miscellaneous Papers Volume I 18 days, 542 pages

+ 25 pages Bleak House and 9 pages Miscellaneous Papers II = 2,000 days' worth.



2nd 1K Total: 29,801 pages = 29.8 Average Pages Per Day.

Not bad.

And The Grand Total 2,000 Days): 43,250 pages, 21.625 Average Pages Per Day

Best read of second 2,000 pages: I've thought about it, and I'm going to say it was Barnaby Rudge. Though there was more than a bit of competition. But that book really took me by surprise and charmed me. 

Onward to DDR 3,000!

* DDR = Daily Devotional Reading, my partially facetious term for my daily reading regimen. Basically it means I commit to reading in a designated book every day. I started with a goal of fifteen minutes per day, then switched to a pages per day goal. The number of pages varies a bit, but since I started reading The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, my goal has stayed at 30 pages per day.