Book Reading Timeline
Unveiling my book journey: thoughts and timeline
Motivation
After anime and manga, I am back with another timeline as I have finally restarted reading books outside of math and manga sphere. Even though I recently created a goodreads account, it has simply too much clutter and unnecessary stuff. Like having separate entries for every books of the same series and the obsession with ratings. Here, I keep things minimalistic.
More Repetitive Stuff
Before you dive in, here are a few things to know. Since it’s mostly repetitive, I won’t go over it all again here. Check out the other timeline for more details!
- Omissions from the Collection
- Not all the books I read will be on here. I maintain a manga timeline for Japanese graphic novels already, and, I don’t think people really want to know about my academic textbooks with raw math. So, I am leaving out anything that’s not oriented towards general audience, I would love to share them but somewhere not here :)
- Personal Insights
- Just like my other timelines, I will share my two cents (mostly spoiler-free) on each read.
Hover/Click on the comments icon to uncover these insights. - The Forgotten Past
- Until recently, I didn’t use to track completion dates. To handle cases where I don’t remember the dates, I have chosen the last day (month) of the forgotten month (year).
- Series Struggles
- In case of a book series, my thoughts generally apply to its entirety, but in some cases, I might need to categorize my thoughts by individual books, especially where I felt a need due to varying opinions across each book.
Another issue comes up while deciding the date of completion, let’s just say that is up to me ( ͡ ° ͜ʖ ͡ °)
The Firsts
It’s tough to pinpoint my first book, but it was probably a cricket book covering most matches from the 1975 to 2003 Cricket World Cups; I guess I have been a cricket fan for ages. Apart from that and the science encyclopedias, I remember reading a lot of fables and folklore like Hitopadesha, Panchatantra, Tales of Akbar-Birbal as well stories from the epic of Mahabharata and Ramayana. But I decided against including such books because they weren’t the “definitive” version written in the original language, and, I don’t remember them that well anyway.
Timeline
- 31 Jan Three Men in a Boat
- 31 Dec The Wonder World of Kaprekar Numbers
- 31 Jan The Story of My Life
- 31 Mar Math Wonders
- 31 Aug A Brief History of Time
- 31 Dec Beautiful Geometry
- 31 Dec E: The Story of a Number
- 31 Dec π: World's Most Mysterious Number
- 31 Dec Single Digits
- 31 Dec The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers
- 31 Jul Particle Physics Brick by Brick
- 31 Oct The Alchemist
- 31 Jan The Invisible Man
- 30 Jun Infinite Powers
- 31 Jul Can You Outsmart An Economist?
- 31 Oct Harry Potter
- 30 Nov The Code Book
- 13 Feb Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- 28 Apr Who Moved My Cheese?
I will keep updating this timeline whenever I read more books.