News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #122…

A reading life. I love Goodreads. It has taught me that there are many people still living the reading life.

Goodreads had 26 million members in January, 2014. Sure, the number of readers overall is decreasing—there are so many other alternatives for acquiring information and having some R&R. That 26 million is worldwide, remember—the actual number of U.S. readers is smaller.

But people are members of Goodreads because they read books, so you wonder what else people are reading, whether they’...