Been wanting a visual map of my reading and looking for the best app for that. Here's a view of 2017 using the free features of Mapline.com. Not that eye-catching but workable. #ReadWide #2017ReadingStats #ReadAllLanguages #ReadAllCultures
Last book nerdy chart, I sorta promise. I like to crunch data sometimes. Here is the breakdown of the 13 books in translation I read in 2017. New languages were Afirkaans, Czech, & Hungarian. New countries, cultures, or ethnicities were Czech, Hungarian, Ugandan & Haitian (From the French), and Slovene (From the German). #2017ReadingStats #ReadWide #ReadAllLanguages
Couldn't get enough Erdrich in 2017. I read 9 of her books. I'll probably devour the rest this year. Toril Moi wrote in a recent book review: 'In his 1925 essay “Notes on the Novel,” Spanish critic José Ortega y Gasset, in his deeply non-modernist way, argues that a good novel has to create a world. The writer‘s world-creating powers immerses the reader in the book‘s universe and makes us forget our own.' Erdrich definitely has this superpower.
Not too shabby 2017! I didn‘t finish ALL the challenges I set out to do but there‘s always 2018 #2017readingstats
Continuing my book nerdy analysis of my 2017 reading: of the 43 books I read, 60% were by women authors. Slowly correcting a lifelong unintentional skew towards male authors. #readwide #readwomen #2017readingStats
Only ~3% of all books published in the USA are works in translation. Here is my 2017 effort to read from non-english speaking countries/cultures. 42% of the 43 books I read were Literature In Translation(LIT) or from authors for whom English was a Second Language (ESL). EFL= English as First Language. So I'm well above the published norm. #2017ReadingStats #ReadWide #ReadAllCultures #readAllLanguages
A lifetime of reading inadvertently inside the white male canon slowly being corrected year by year. For 2017, 77% of the 43 books I read were by LGBTQIA+, women, people of color, indigenous, etc., authors. #2017ReadingStats #ReadWide #ReadAllCultures #readAllLanguage
I definitely surpassed all of my personal reading goals this year! Litsy has not only been a wonderful community to be a part of in general, but it‘s also really encouraged me to read more! I think this is the most books I‘ve ever read in a single year, and I just want to thank YOU ALL for being supportive book friends! I love you guys! ❤️💗❤️💗❤️ Happy New Year, everyone! 😘💋🎉🍾🥂🎆
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Well 2017, it's been a slice! On to new and better things. ❤️ I have a feeling 2018 is going to be bloody brilliant. #my2017 #2017ReadingStats #myyearinbooks
And here is my savings for all the physical books that I took out from my local libraries ❤️ I saved $5,678.25 !!! 😲😲😲😲
That means if I combine the physical loans with the digital and audiobook loans, I had a whopping total savings of $11,199.43 after taxes.
THAT IS FREAKING CRAZY! I am so so blessed to have access to 4 wonderful libraries in my city. Yay!
#my2017 #2017ReadingStats #readingstats #Totalsavings #somuchmoneysaved ❤️💙❤️
