Friday, November 3, 2017

October Reading Wrap-Up

This has not been a particularly fall like October. It hasn't been that cool out for the most part which one part of me wants to enjoy and other part of me is terrified because hahaha we're all going to die. But hey, other than that, fine month. Didn't do too much Halloween-y either, but whatchya gonna do? Just get to the stats? Yeah, good idea.

Number of books read
5
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
On Writing by Stephen King
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree by A.J. Jacobs
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Number of pages
1,704

Fiction
40%

POC authors
20%
US authors
80%

Book formats
ebook - 40%
paperback - 60%

Where'd I get the book
Chain bookstore - 20%
Indie - 40%
NetGalley - 40%

Reread
40%

Review book
40%

Books by decade
1990s - 20%
2000s - 20%
2010s - 60%

Books by genre
Horror - 20%
Lit fic - 20%
Memoir - 40%
Sociology/history - 20%

Resolution books
40%
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge is by a POC, non-US author
On Writing by Stephen King was published in 1999 so riiiiight on the border but still counts as published before 2000

Alright so not bad. I mean, not GREAT but not bad. Let's see how February November (not sure why I decided to skip a bunch of months) goes