#my book for feb was i'm glad my mom died

[raiiny-bay]

making something (maybe)

#(hopefully) #hi. i accidentally disappeared for a bit. #the burnout got to me ngl #haven't done a single creative thing all week #i did make it to the library though #my book for feb was i'm glad my mom died #i don't usually read nonfic but. i enjoyed it. i mean #as much as you can enjoy a book with that kind of subject matter #i read it in about a day. mostly in one sitting #i've gotten a head start on my march book & i'm genuinely almost regretting my pick #like. it's a compelling read & it's written in such a way that i want to know what happens but #it's fucking horrific. rarely do i need to put a book down & have a break but. i have done so several times w this book #i'm determined to finish it though. i need to know if there's like. a point to the horrors i'm experiencing or not #uhh i did also go dvd hunting #i found season 1 & season 2 of ATLA which were cool finds #i did find them at two different thrift stores which i thought was kinda funny #i'm probably gonna watch the new live action later but idk #n e way #rainyrambles

[thebreakfastgod]

Books read in Feb: Red White & Royal Blue, 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Giver, Gathering Blue, Braiding Sweetgrass, I'm Glad My Mom Died.

#books

[july-19th-club]

Read in 2022:

My Heart is a Chainsaw; Jade Daniels #1 – Stephen Graham Jones (Dec. 21-Jan 22) 

We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson (Jan)  

All Systems Red; Murderbot Diaries #1 – Martha Wells (Jan) 

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters short story collection – Ursula K. Le Guin (Jan) 

Always Coming Home – Ursula K. Le Guin (UNFINISHED; SKIMMED – Jan)  

A Desolation Called Peace; Teixcalaan #2 – Arkady Martine (Jan – May) 

Death’s End; Three Body #3 – Liu Cixin (UNFINISHED – Jan – May – ?)  

Artificial Condition; Murderbot Diaries #2 – Martha Wells (Feb – March)  

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People will Believe Anything – Kelly Weill (Feb – March) 

The Appeal – Janice Hallett (Feb) 

Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Dark Star #1 – Marlon James (Feb – March DNF AGAIN :( ) 

In Love – Amy Bloom (March) 

Woman Eating – Claire Kohda (April) 

Help/Thanks/Wow: The Three Essential Prayers – Anne Lamott (April)  

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans in Comedy – Kliph Nesteroff (Apr – May) 

The Raven Tower – Ann Leckie (May – June) 

Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library – Amanda Oliver (May) 

The Sign for Home – Blair Fell (May) 

The Name of the Wind; Kingkiller Chronicle #1 – Patrick Rothfuss (May – still not finished) 

The Fifth Season; Broken Earth #1 – N. K. Jemison (May – July) 

Dracula; via the Dracula Daily read-along email club – Bram Stoker (May – Nov)  

How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing – K.C. Davis 

Rogue Protocol; Murderbot Diaries #3 – Martha Wells (June) 

Sonnetts from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (June)  

The Cyrano Factor – Medievalchic on AO3 (June) (I read so little fanfiction and it was novella-length so I felt compelled to count it) 

Harlem Sunset: Louise Lloyd #2– Nekesa Afia <3 (June – July) 

“Drive” from Nobody’s Magic short story collection – Destiny O. Birdsong (June – July) 

Something that May Shock and Discredit You – Daniel Lavery (June) 

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (June – Aug) 

Get In Trouble short story collection – Kelly Link (July) 

Devil House – John Darnielle (July) 

The Swimmers – Julie Otsuka (July) 

The Tale of Beren & Luthien – J.R.R. Tolkien (July) 

The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison (July – Aug) 

The Thief – Megan Whalen Turner (REREAD – DNF – Aug) 

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (zine) #45 – (Aug) 

Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars – ed. Andrew Bacevich & Daniel A. Sjursen (Aug) 

Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand (REREAD - first time since high school! - Aug – Sept) 

Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman (REREAD – DNF – Sept) 

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant – Roz Chast (Sept)  

Rosemary & Rue; October Daye #1 – Seanan McGuire (Sept) 

Nona the Ninth; Locked Tomb #3 – Tamsyn Muir (Sept) 

A Local Habitation; October Daye #2 – Seanan McGuire (Sept – Oct) 

I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy (Oct) 

A Choir of Lies – Alexandra Rowland (Oct-Nov) 

An Artificial Night; October Daye #3 – Seanan McGuire (Oct – Dec) 

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity – David Graeber & David Wengrow (Nov 22 – ? still reading) 

Leech – Hiron Ennes (Dec) 

all told i've read a total of 48 books this year, which is way more than i thought i'd read when i was going through my list. technically it's probably closer to 40 because some of the books are DNFs or books i'm still trying to finish - but nonetheless i think i had a pretty varied and rewarding reading experience this year! the list for next year is everything i didn't read on this year's list, plus like two small steno pages of books i've written down since then - about 220 books. i'll probably add even more as the year goes on.

#i should post pics of what my lists look like they're crazy long #but i love keeping them in a physical little notepad #i should honestly make one for stuff i watch or sewing projects too but thats like ridiculous for shows #because i always get halfway through and then take a break and come back months later #which doesnt fit with my checking-off-a-finished-thing system #i COULD do it with the projects though and i think i will

[endless-droning]

Reading: 2023 Year in Review

My Goals:

24 books finished

10,000 pages read

150:00 hours listened (originally 50, then 100)

How it went:

Books: 40 books

Pages: 10,038 pages

Audio: 151:17 hours

More Stats!

Note: A lot of the books I read this year were ebooks, meaning the page numbers were inflated.

I read on 154 days and reached my goal on 85 days. My top day was December 31st, reading 518 pages over 5 different books. My longest book was The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins at 728 pages. My shortest book was Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood at 192 pages. The average length was 390 pages.

I listened to audiobooks on 159 days and reached my goal on 108 days. My top day was July 3rd, listening to 6:50 hours of Divergent by Veronica Roth. My longest audiobook was The Testaments by Margaret Atwood at 13:18 hours. My shortest audiobook was This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone at 4:16 hours. The average length was 10:05 hours.

I read/listened to 6 whole series, started 1 series, 18 stand-alone books. 5 of the books I read/listened to were rereads. 30 of the books I read/listened to were from the library.

Full Book List by date finished

Ready Player One - Feb 10

The Hunger Games - Feb 19

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Feb 28

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Mar 10

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Mar 16

The Handmaid's Tale - Apr 9

A Magic Steeped in Poison - Apr 27

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Audio) - May 2

Heartstopper, Vol. 1 - May 12

The Testaments (Audio) - May 13

This is How You Lose the Time War (Audio) - Jun 2

Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Audio) - Jun 4

Iron Widow (Audio) - Jun 25

Matched (Audio) - Jul 1

Divergent (Audio) - Jul 4

Hell Followed with Us - Jul 16

Crossed (Audio) - Jul 20

Heartstopper, Vol. 2 - Jul 26

Reached (Audio) - Aug 6

I'm Glad My Mom Died (Audio) - Aug 11

Heartstopper, Vol. 3 - Aug 20

The Love Hypothesis - Sep 6

Heartstopper, Vol. 4 - Sep 29

Insurgent (Audio) - Oct 12

Allegiant (Audio) - Nov 11

The First to Die at the End (Audio) - Nov 23

A Venom Dark and Sweet - Dec 4

Anatomy (Audio) - Dec 6

Spy x Family, Vol. 1 - Dec 10

Nimona - Dec 15

Spy x Family, Vol. 2 - Dec 18

Love on the Brain - Dec 22

Below Zero - Dec 25

Daisy Jones & The Six (Audio) - Dec 30

Spy x Family, Vol. 3 - Dec 30

Famous for a Living - Dec 31

Heartstopper, Vol. 5 - Dec 31

The Grace Year - Dec 31

Your Driver is Waiting - Dec 31

Legendborn - Dec 31

Scythe - Unfinished (Started August 21, 54.74%, gonna be my first book of 2024)

#reading list #book recommendations #book log #bookish #bookblr #books #booklr #reading #books and reading #reading is awesome #read in 2023 #storygraph #bookworm #booktok #bookstagram

[intravenousgnostic]

trying to unbreak my brain a bit by reading again, so here's a list of books I've read this year (2022*):

Dec-Jan

The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye

Hons and Rebels - Jessica Mitford

Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (read out loud, to my wife)

We Are Family: What Really Matters for Parents and Children - Susan Golombok

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt

The Bloody Chamber and Other Tales - Angela Carter

Feb

Modern Nature - Derek Jarman

Earthlings - Sayaka Murata

The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde

Everything (A Book about Manic Street Preachers) - Simon Price

Mar

Eric - Terry Pratchett (read out loud, to my wife)

The Walking Dead: Compendium One - Robert Kirkland, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin

Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett (read out loud, to my wife)

May

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett (read out loud, to my wife)

You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] - Andrew Hankinson

June

Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett (read out loud, to my wife)

July

Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield

I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp - Richard Hell

Dagger: On Butch Women - Edited by Lily Burana, Roxxie Linnea Due

August

Small Gods - Terry Pratchett (read out loud, to my wife)

The Sandman (Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes) - Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III

The Madness - Narcís Oller (trans. Douglas Suttle)

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby

September

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Gate To Women's Country - Sheri S. Tepper

X - Davey Davis

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

October

README.txt - Chelsea Manning

November-December

We had a baby and I couldn't remember what day it was, let alone read a book

*technically since christmas 2021 but I'm counting it all together

#J