I think I forgot to tell you guys about my Goodreads reading challenge for last year, 2019.
A
small sample is shown here. And in reverse order. [^^] But it gives you nothing
more than the basics.
In
previous years, I wanted a bit more information about what I was reading, and I
found a spreadsheet from the Smart Bitches trashy Books website. [%%]
My total is really 403 titles. Goodreads has deleted something off and I
cannot for the life of me work out what it was; not without going through all
the records. Ain't nobody got time for that.
So
81,110 pages read. A lot of smaller titles. I was making my way through a pile
of Agatha Christie stories but still managed one title over 800 pages and I
read at a rate of 220 pages per day.
Being
a romance centric website, the sheet is very well… romance centric. These are
the categories.
This
surprises me; I did not know I read that much fantasy and sci-fi.
I
am parsimonious with my five star ratings. I do not give them to everything,
clearly that would be for the fourth star – lol. But that is a pretty decent
bell curve. I also tend to dnf rather than one star something.
This
is interesting, because as is often the case, what gets measured gets noticed.
I thought I would do better than this at picking diverse books and marginalized
authors. I will try harder in 2020.
This
year I have also split fantasy and sci-fi into two categories – once I’d worked
out how to edit the spreadsheet. There are instructions on how to do that in
this year’s sheet update. Dammit – I did it on my own, and added in a missing
line and changing the 2019 sheet to 2020. I was super proud of myself for that.
I
have set this year’s target at the same, one book per day. So far I am up to
67.
Links:
^^ My goodreads challenge for 2019
%% smart bitches reading
spreadsheet
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