Reading Roundup: A Reading-literature Series | 
March was a bit of a bust.
Not much time for reading & even less time for Litsying.
Did not get to join any group reads and achieved nothing off BookspinBingo.
I hope to do some catch up in the next few days and see what you all have been reading.
Favorite book of the month: The Women
Including the Follett book even though I‘m not done-i‘ve listened to 30 of the 40 hours, so I say it counts!
It‘s amazing! Looking forward to finishing it soon.
I‘m still in a busy time and not getting onto Litsy as much as I‘d like.
However I was still able to read several books via audio while on the road. Yay!
I got one Bingo and read both the Bookspin and Doublespin books.
Favorite of the month was Blood Lines. It‘s the best of the series…so far.
Runner up: The Running Grave. Love Cormoran Strike! I hope I don‘t have to wait too long for the next one.
#bookspinbingo
@TheAromaofBooks
The last ½ of January totally got away from me and I had no time to be here.
I will try to backtrack to some of my buddy reads in the next few days.
I liked all my January reads. Got one Bingo for #bookspinbingo. @TheAromaofBooks
Favorites for the month were The Frozen River & the Follett book.
Really Enjoyed Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Spectacular!
Cooking for Picasso and Ultra Processed People were flawed, but soft picks for me.
2023 was a great reading year for me. I initially hope to read at least 55 books. I far surpassed that 😀
Read lots of books I would have otherwise missed if not for my Litsy friends, challenges and group reads.
While my series stats for 2023 were quite good, I am hoping for better in 2024.
I nearly met my goal of not starting any new series until I complete one already in progress.
#serieslove2023
Despite my time limitations for reading/posting on Litsy, I had a fun #Scarathlon and finished 14 books.
Thanks @AnnR @Read4life @aperfectmjk @Clwojick & @TheAromaofBooks no full bingo cards, but hit a few bingos on all.
25,935 points for the 2nd half of Scarathlon.
Grand total for the month: 33,814. Yippee!
Thanks to a great team leader @Emilymdxn and to my #skeletoncrew teammates! You all made it fun! Hope next time I can share more in posts
Catch up post, all read last week. All good, but not spectacular.
Gaiman book was a blast from the past! Loved getting some HHGTTG dirt & hearing excerpts from the radio shows. Quite fun for die hard fans—must read the audio version with Simon Jones-aka Arthur Dent
Landay book was a great mystery about a Mom who disappeared and Dad is prime suspect, but the pacing felt slow at times.
Binti was for #authoramonth. Always fun to try new authors.
I had a great first half of the year!
My favorite was Demon Copperhead, but all 4 books in the top row were 5 star reads for me.
I rated all the others as 4.5 stars.
Can‘t wait to see how the next 6 months go. I can tell it‘s going to be hard to choose a top 10 for 2023!
I had little time to get on Litsy this month, but was driving in my car a lot so had a good reading month. I‘ll try to post some reviews this weekend, but I wanted to post May #bookspin info now. No Bingo for me. 😔
My favorite reads were Devil‘s Pawn (#serieslove2023), Notorious RBG and The Masterpiece.
Disappointed in The Splendid and the Vile. Parts were great…others were 😴. I like other Larson books better #Authoramonth
January reads!
20 books
6,611 pages
Heavy on the reflective emotional reads because I am a moody bitch apparently 🤣
This year I read 176 books.
It is too many books for me.
I started reviewing and honestly there are some I completely forgot I read.
Some were total gems, some where complete disappointments.
My goals were for 100 books 50K pages, and I far surpassed this. I also had the goal of reading all of Toni Morrison's Novels which I completed and am so glad I did, what an amazing treasure she was.
#yearinreading
#readingroundup #octoberreads
4.5 ⭐
A Murder Is Announced
Record of A Spaceborn Few
Our Missing Hearts
Infinite Country
Undertaking of Heart and Mercy
4 ⭐
The Sparrow
The Fifth Season
The Night Swim 🎧
Genesis Begins Again 🎧
Year of the Witching
3.5 ⭐
After You'd Gone
Bless Me, Ultima 🎧
The Blessing Way
Astonishing Color of After
3 ⭐
Where The Dead Sit Talking
Book of Magic 🎧
1 ⭐
The Southern Book Club Guide 🎧
I did awesome this month! 12 Books
Thanks to all you Litsy's that read a ton!. Y'all inspired me.
The Hidden One 4⭐
Katastrophe 2⭐
They Want To Kill Americans 1⭐
Upgrade 4⭐
Helltown 2 ⭐
The Minotaur Sampler 4⭐
The Dollhouse 3⭐
Damnation Springs 3⭐
For Malice and Mercy 4⭐
The Storyteller of Casablanca 5⭐
Till Death Do Us Part' 4⭐
Do No Harm 4⭐
(I couldn't do a collage with all the books 🤷)
It‘s that time again!!! Just signed up for Round 6 of #LMPBC ! Last round was my first time and I got a great group, so here‘s to another one! I‘m in Group C if you wanna join me 😉
Here are my read books for October that were new to me. I also did some re-reads via #audible romance package.
Not a super high volume month but not bad.
I am at 147 books for the year and my 2018 goal was 150 so I should be hitting that in the next month easily.
#octoberreads #readinggoals #glorytotheguild
October recap. I read 7 books. 2 ebooks, 3 audiobooks and 2 physical. 1 DNF for the month.
My favourites this month were Melmoth, When All Is Said, The Long Take, Tirzah and the Prince of Crows and The Tartar Steppe. All highly recommended!
I had a lot of fun participating in the April #ReadingResolution thanks to @Jess7 & the #photochallenge😄 I read a lot tho some were carry-overs from March.
@Mvalle1 @tifhayes @KathleenLoucks ladies I see we are all in the round 2 Round Robin group on Book Riot insiders so I sent you follow requests here as well.
A fairly disappointing month in terms of quality with many books just fair to middling but there were still a few that were incredible. Plus I got to meet Sarah Moss, Helen Sedgwick, Olivia Sudjic and the inimitable Ali Smith (not to mention @scripturient and @Heideschrampf!) so it was still a social bookish month #stats
Not my strongest reading month but still I'm glad with the titles I read...my favorites were Swimming Lessons, A History of Love, Underground Airlines and Gustav Sonata. I was able to add a few titles for my #LitsyAtoZ 20/26 Letters to go #J #K #O #Q #V #X and two titles for #Nonfictionchallenge17 After Perfect & Lab Girl!
My 2016 reading round-up. Litsy sure played a part in increasing my book count! Though it's very distracting and cuts into reading time too 😉
But funnily, my newfound love of graphic novels may have inflated the book count while lowering my page total...😕
Either way, a good year (book-wise. The rest of 2016 was ☹️😢😠😖😫) and now on to a new book-filled year!
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#bookstats
