Last week I commented I was just getting back to normal after some time away. Well, this week normality has struck.Poll results
I ran a poll during the week that asked people to consider the last 10 books they had read: how many of them were translations into English. It probably wasn't a terribly well constructed poll but 21 people answered:
- all of them - 0
- 7-9 1 person
- 4-6 3 people
- 1-3 13 people
- none - 4 people
With so much Scandinavian crime fiction on the market, it is obviously becoming more common.
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This week's poll relates to your growing TBR. Don't know what that is? Check here.
C'mon, confess, how many unread books do you have lying around? Go count them up and then pop in and participate in the poll in the right hand margin of MYSTERIES IN PARADISE.
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- and after that - IRON HEART, Marshall Browne
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7 comments:
I have to say, I now feel ashamed at admitting how many unread books I have in my collection. My problem is people keep lending me books.
My unread pile is too long. I don't know how I will get around those.
Sunday Book Coveting
I don't need to go and count them to answer your poll ;-)
As you ask how many of our books were translated INTO ENGLISH, I had to answer none.
A number of mine were translated from English or Swedish into Danish :)
Fame at last I was the one who had read 7 out 10 translated crime, and one of the others was set in Germany!
I am not ashamed now! I gingerly pressed the more than 250 option, only to find that so had most other people!
Well, can you believe I don't have a TBR pile at the moment? (One good thing about having moved recently! What do you people do when you move? Do you bring all 250 books with you?)
Anyway, just dropped by to say, thank you for posting about my challenge. Are you going to participate, too, or not?
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