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Some people are voracious readers and bibliophiles. However, can you imagine someone meticulously recording every book they read in a journal? Ben Myers from Brisbane, Queensland, the Director of the Graduate Research School, Alphacrucis University College, took to Twitter to share photos of the log his grandmother kept.
The 94-year-old woman has a list of every book she has ever read since she was 14 years old. “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,” Myers wrote on Twitter.
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The woman was a refugee in Germany and then migrated to Australia. Sharing more photos of the journal, Myers wrote, “Thanks for all the interest in my grandmother’s reading! Here are a few more pages from this early period when she was a refugee in Germany, followed by her migration to Australia.”
And if you are wondering how many books she has read in her lifetime, it is a whopping 1,658. Even more astonishing is that she never had the opportunity to finish school but would have loved to have studied philosophy.
“The total number of books listed is 1658 (nearly one per fortnight over 80 years). Not bad for a person who never had the opportunity to finish school. In a different world she would have studied philosophy at university,” Myers shared in another tweet.
“Absolutely love this thread! Did she read in other languages too, besides German and English?” a user asked. Myers replied, “Serbian books on very rare occasions, possibly some Hungarian ones too (I haven’t looked carefully yet, I only got the list from her yesterday).”
“That is amazing and I’m kicking myself for not doing the same,” another user commented.
