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June 23, 2017

May 2017 Overview

June 23, 2017

Books I hauled in May 2017

Left stack: TBR pile | Right stack: to re-read & reference books

Looking Back

Reading Stats

Things were good in May reading-wise. I read more than I did on average over the previous three months, which surprised me. April was my worst reading month since January 2016. Usually I manage at least six books per month but in April, I was down to four. Then came May, and I bounced back, tripling the amount I read.

So, on to my May reading stats: I finished 12 books. My average rating was mediocre at 3.344 out of 5. Altogether, I read six paperbacks, one hardcover, one ebook, and four audiobooks. I read 1,974 pages and listened to 34:45 hours on audio (equalling 1,032 pages). Converting the listening hours to pages, that sums up to 3,006 pages.

What was unusual for me, was that only a quarter of the books were YA fiction, and nearly half were non-fiction. Maybe switching things up kept me engaged with my books, as I completely indulged my moods, and wasn’t too concerned about which review copies I had yet to read.

Books Read

Print books I read in May 2017

Print books I read in May 2017

  1. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden | Rating: 3.222*

  2. Unfriending My Ex by Kim Stolz | Rating: 4.143

  3. The House of New Beginnings by Lucy Diamond | Rating: 4.438

  4. World Mythology in Bite-Sized Chunks by Mark Daniels | Rating: 2.125

  5. The Complete Portrait Manual by Editors of Popular Photography | Rating: 3.875

  6. We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler | Rating: 4.750

  7. Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki | Rating: 4.000

  8. The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon | Rating: 3.313

  9. Ones and Zeroes by Dan Wells | Rating: 3.563

  10. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | Rating: 0.625

  11. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard | Rating: 2.944

  12. Cruel Crown by Victoria Aveyard | Rating: 3.125

*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.

TBR Pile

TBR Reduction

My May book haul’s considerably large but I acquired four books to re-read, and another four for reference. This leaves me with seven books to add to the TBR pile. Since I read seven books I’d already owned, my TBR reduction status remained the same as April at -8.

While my TBR pile hasn’t grown beyond what it was at the beginning of the year, I’m pretty much adding as many books I’m reading. That’s something I want to be more conscious of during the rest of the year

Book Haul

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Peter Pan
The Waking Land
S.T.A.G.S
The Art of Plant-Based Cheesemaking: How to Craft Real, Cultured, Non-Dairy Cheese
Cinder
Scarlet
Cress
Truth or Dare
The Beginner's Guide to Cheese Making: Easy Recipes and Lessons to Make Your Own Handcrafted Cheeses
Windfall
The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions: Veganize It!  Foolproof Methods for Transforming Any Dish into a Delicious New Vegan Favorite
The Complete Guide to Even More Vegan Food Substitutions: The Latest and Greatest Methods for Veganizing Anything Using More Natural, Plant-Based Ingredients * Includes More Than 100 Recipes!
The Golem and the Jinni
Gem & Dixie


Do you ever switch up your reading months, or read books out of your norm?

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Comments

  1. Ana says

    June 27, 2017 at 03:57

    I think it’s great to switch up your reading routine! Of course reading what we know we love and enjoy has its own comforts, but it’s always fun to be caught in a totally different genre than you’d expect to find your I think.

    • Joséphine says

      June 27, 2017 at 12:00

      Agreed! Comfort is great, but sometimes I like to satisfy my curiosity and learn new things, or be surprised, which is where a genre where I’m unfamiliar with common tropes fits nicely.

  2. Shelumiel @ Bookish and Awesome says

    June 25, 2017 at 19:36

    Jo. I love how systematized you are with your reading life! And wow. 12 books. Bravo! Brava! Also? I adore the featured photo. <3

    • Joséphine says

      June 27, 2017 at 11:57

      Lol. Excel and Leio App make it really easy ;) Besides a spreadsheet to track the books I read, I also set up one that automatically tallies the number of pages and hours I listened to each week and month, as well as averages for each day of the week. All I need to do is input how much I read each day. Haha. And thank you! I’m glad to hear you like that photo.

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