Reading

I knew it was bad but I didn’t know it was THIS bad, hahahahahaha. Ugh.

90

I read 90 books in 2018?

90

WHO AM I????

10 audiobooks (not bad, really.)
10 non-fiction (umm, how can that be??????)
2 were graphic novels or manga
18 were Cybils (and some of those were from LAST year’s Cybils list. Blah)
45 were children/middle grade/YA (No surprise)

17 were written by men or women of color. I’m not displeased by this. Almost 20%. I can do better but considering so many of my books this year were sequels, I’m definitely not complaining.

The biggest disappointment of the year, besides the general lack of reading, was how few Cybils I read. Only 11 from this list. 11. How is that even possible?

At this point, I don’t even know what to shoot for in 2019. 100 for the year? More of EVERYTHING?

Six? Ugh. I could have sworn it was better than that.

4 children’s books
1 audio

(one by a WoC, four by women)

Sucked. It did and there’s not a good reason for it. Besides work and stress and fun stuff like that. Reading two pages a day is just not going to get the books read, is it? And, I keep quitting books 50 pages in because I am not loving them and that is really annoying. What a waste of reading time when you’re an hour or so in and decide you’re not going further. Whatever. Onward to… January? I’m going to need a #fakereadathon in January, I think.

8 total

2 audiobooks (one was a YA Cybil! First Cybil I’ve finished in ages!)
5 children’s/middle grade fiction. (One was LGBTQ themed.)

1 was written by a MOC

This wasn’t a horribly bad reading month, even if we didn’t have #Readathon. (Especially considering I was tired after GHC 18 and we went to the beach with the little ones.)

10 books finished (plus a couple of short stories, and I quit a couple of books in October, too.)

2 children picture books
1 audiobook
1 YA
1 Manga
1 non-fiction

1 had a lot of queer characters, both of the children’s picture books were about gender nonconforming characters, (and one I quit had lgbt characters, too.)

2 books were written by WOC (Asian).

According to my blog, I read ZERO books in September. In reality, I read one and quit one. I didn’t blog either. It’s been a month… a very, very difficult month. September often is. Whatever.

Onward to October? When’s the fall #readathon? Umm, is there not one? That’s kind of heartbreaking. There must be. I shall investigate and report back. Update: Official #readathon date is 10/20/18. (That was much harder to find than it should have been.) I think we can manage that #readathon.

Welp. It’s a good thing I didn’t set a goal of reading 250 books this year. Hah.

I read three in August. I have good reasons though, right? (Besides binge watching OITNB.)

1 was YA.
Two were LGBTQ.
Only 1 was decent.

Oy.

None were written by WOC.

Oops. I forgot to post this, mostly because I finished some other books and thought I’d get a chance to blog them and then didn’t. Oh well, more for July (which will be a difficult month for reading, unless we can do the Surprise Summer Readathon!)

Anyway, back to June.

8 total. Not bad since we went to Disney World and we bought a pinball machine. Also, the yard work is killer right now and work is… work-like.

2 were Middle Grade/YA but only 1 was a Cybil.
1 was non-fiction.
2 were audiobooks.

3 were written by WOC and 1 by a MOC.

As expected, May was a horrible month for reading. OK maybe not horrible, since I’ve certainly had worse, but it wasn’t good. How could it have been, with all of that travel and all of that stress? Whatever.. June’s going to be awesome!

I read six books, total.
Three were non-fiction (including one cookbook.)
Three were from the Cybils shortlist.

*One was written by a POC (male).

Nine, hahaha. Oops. It was a long month with more TV watching than reading there at the end. Whatever.

Five were children’s picture/board books (lol)
Two were middle grade non-fiction (lol)
One was middle grade poetry (lol)
(That means I only read one adult novel in April and I didn’t even like the damn book. lol)

Six were Cybils (and they were mostly good Cybils, too!)

May probably won’t be much better for reading since we’ll be taking two trips (on top of the one I’m already on right now.)

*One was written by an Asian man.

Not bad, not good but not bad.

11 total
9 were written by women, one was written by a (male) POC.

1 audiobook
1 YA (and it was a Cybil)
2 non-fiction