Looking Back
Reading Stats
January was one of the best reading months I’ve had in quite some time. Altogether I finished 16 books, which is double of what I read most months in 2016. The average rating is 3.454 out of 5. Blogging less and not spending so much time on Instagram and Twitter contributed a lot more reading time, that’s for sure.
I’ve felt pretty burnt out by anything related to book blogging for weeks on end for a myriad of reasons. That’s why I took a step back and focused more on reading. It also helps that I did some thorough spring cleaning, during which I listened to three or four audiobooks. I also marked one audiobook as DNF, though I blame the narration and will probably still read the ebook this year.
Of the books I read, nine were paperbacks, six were audiobooks and one was hardcover. I didn’t read any ebooks last month. The print books added 3,024 pages to my tally and the audiobooks 54:12 hours (equalling 2,116 pages). If I convert the listening hours to pages, then I would’ve read a total of 5,140 pages.
Books Read
- A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard | Rating: 4.125*
- Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed | Rating: 4.188
- Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier | Rating: 4.857
- The Chimes by Anna Smaill | Rating: 0.000
- The Special Ones by Em Bailey | Rating: 4.063
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | Rating: 4.214
- Things I’ll Never Say edited by Ann Angel | Rating: 3.658
- Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch | Rating: 4.000
- Mother Tongue by Julie Mayhew | Rating: 3.833
- The Cake Therapist by Judith Fertig | Rating: 1.650
- The Here and Now by Ann Brashares | Rating: 1.950
- Trouble Makes a Comeback by Stephanie Tromly | Rating: 4.111
- All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank | Rating: 2.111
- My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga | Rating: 3.200
- The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas | Rating: 4.111
- [Re-read] This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab | Rating: 4.857
*Note on ratings: I rate books on a scale of 0 to 5, 0 being the worst and 5 being the best. I first rate various aspects such as prose, characterisation, plot, originality, etc. Then I average these out for my overall ratings. To obtain my star ratings, I round to the nearest 0.5.
Did Not Finish
- Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Audiobooks I listened to
TBR Pile
TBR Reduction
Most months I end up adding more books to my TBR pile than I actually managed to read. I’m happy to learn that that wasn’t the case for January. Of the books I read, 10 were my own. Though I hauled 10 books, one was a recipe book, so I added nine to the TBR pile. Two I bought, two I received as gifts and six I received for review. My current 2017 TBR reduction status is -1.
Book Haul
Wow! It looks like you had an awesome reading month, and were able to get in a lot of good reads! I absolutely loved Six of Crows! I’ve heard great things about The Summer of Chasing Mermaids. Happy reading!
I feel very out of touch with the book blogs and reading. I’ve been in a horrible slump for a while, and life has been really stressing me out. I’m hoping to get back into it all these coming months, though. I haven’t had a month like yours in a while, that’s for sure. I think it’s the lack of school vacations. Haha!
I hope you enjoy the Summer of Chasing Mermaids. I truly enjoyed that book. It was a perfect summertime read.
Wow, I haven’t read any of the books on your list :0 But a lot of them are on my TBR, so there’s still hope :P
You’ve managed to read quite a lot! That’s great. I hope that you’ll have just as much time in February. :) And looks like you got a few great new books, too.
Happy Reading! :)
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I love that you figured out how many pages you read. I want to do that to shock my students. :)
Ooh you read lots of books in January! I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy My Heart and Other Blackholes as much as I did. I didn’t read that much in January, I was (and still) in a slump, so it took me forever to finish a book. I’ve heard amazing things about Lies of Locke Lamora and plan to read Summer of Chasing Mermaids this month, so I hope you’ll enjoy them!
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I feel so out of touch since I stopped blogging that I don’t recognize most of the books here. I do know Six of Crows though – I got that one during my one round of OTSP I joined, but I still haven’t read it. Fail. I’m glad to see you enjoyed it!(I’m not going to lie, even though I like Bardugo one of the main reasons I’m excited to read that book is because of how pretty it looks.)
TBR reduction, I feel you. I literally have only purchased one or two books in the past half-year and yet I still have 62 unread books on my shelf. My goal is to not purchase anymore until I move unless it’s for my book club (and even then I should really just convince myself to go to the library. >.<). If only stepping away from everything convinced me to read more… I'm such a casual reader.