Reading Lists

15 total for June. That’s actually better than I thought. Oh, 16 if you count reading my friend RE’s book (and I do!) so yay for me. I’m way behind on my goals for the year. I need a full day of reading or three full days of reading. Or something.

Here’s the breakdown (and no, the total in these categories won’t add up to 15! Some audio books are also YA or non-fiction, etc… this is only for me to keep track of the TYPES of books I read and mini-challenge goals.)

3 Audio books
4 from the Cybils shortlist
3 were YA
1 graphic novel
5 non-fiction

I’m also still working on Bleak House but it’s so bleak that I only read a few pages a week. I might finish it by this time next year… maybe.

You might have already read about this on BlogHer, since I wrote about challenges over there yesterday… whatevs. I’ve got to have it here, too, since I’ll end up referring to it a zillion times over the next few years.

• The Cybils Shortlist Challenge
• TBR Pile Challenge (my goal is 12)
• Audiobook Challenge (my goal is 12)
• Prequel/Sequel Challenge (I don’t have a firm goal, I just know I need to make an effort to catch up.)
• My overall goal for 2014… 300 books. That’s going to be a stretch for me.

I beat last year by 5 books but there were weeks when I didn’t finish a single book. I can do better. Here’s how it shaped up:

– I finished the Cybils Shortlist Challenge – barely. Had to buy the last book in order to finish because it was not available at my library.
– I only read one book from the Nancy Drew Challenge, which is really annoying – and I probably wouldn’t have managed that if Texasebeth hadn’t sent me a Nancy Drew book. I’m going to do better with that in 2014.
– The Book to Movie Challenge didn’t go quite as well as I’d hoped. It wasn’t BAD but I never managed to watch the last movie, for a book I didn’t particularly love. I thought I’d watch it with Chris and Michelle over the Christmas break but the darn iPhone/iTunes madness got in the way. Maybe I’ll watch it this weekend — it won’t count toward the 2013 Challenge but I’ll feel better about it. I read three books but only watched two movies. Darn it.
– From the Stacks? 4 — Pathetic, as usual.

* 18 were audiobooks.
* 35 were YA.
* 83 were non-fiction.
* Of the non-fiction, 19 were about art, journaling, crafting etc. 2 were cookbooks. 12 were travel books. 6 were short stories.
*15 were graphic novels.
* Only 12 had a significant queer storyline or characters (though a lot more books had queer characters tossed in for fun.)

* I think I quit more books this year than I ever have — at least six, that I can think of.

* I loved 74 and hated 6.

I’m definitely going to remember 2013 as the year of Maisie Dobbs (and the year of children’s picture books, since I read so many with JMP.)

It was a rough month for reading — or for anything, really. Shouldn’t have been since I had a whole ass ton of time off of work (and mostly didn’t work) but there you go. I can’t read when my schedule is effed up. Hmph. Still, it wasn’t too bad. I stayed focused on getting the Cybils read, since I was so behind and really running out of time to finish that challenge.

Here’s how it panned out.

Total books read: 26

2 audio books
13 Middle Grade & YA fiction(12 were Cybil)
8 Non-fiction (6 were Cybil)
1 Graphic Novel (a Cybil book)
2 Fiction (adult)

Oops. I almost forgot my monthly tally. Possibly because I’m not super excited by most of what I read, though I did thoroughly enjoy the #readathon early in the month. Let’s see how I did.

39 total (which sounds better than it is, because so many where children’s books, lol)

2 Audiobooks
7 Graphic Novels (they were all for the Cybil Shortlist Challenge)
16 Children’s lit (fiction and nonfiction) (they were all for the Cybil Shortlist Challenge
1 Queer
5 Non-fiction.
8 Fiction

I quit 1 book this month and there was another I should have quit but did not.