Me and the Wag overheard it, and I looked to him quizically, doing sums in my head, and he answred "no that is not speed reading" before I could work it out. In a similar suituation (bearing in mind that some of the sixteen were quoted as being plays) ie, naff all else to do cos I'd been locked up, I would expect to have averaged a book a day, poss taking two days on long works... so minimum 30, and only if they are all weighty novels. I would expect to have read and memorized large chunks of 16 plays in a similar time.
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