YearOfMemoirs

The Joy of Stats: A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences | Roberta Garner

Part 1 of my stats:

I‘m so proud of hitting these reading goals!!

Definitely the #YearOfMemoirs. I‘m kind of tired of them now! But I did manage to fit in lots of other genres too.

Cinfhen

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks How do you read so many?!?! 3y

Megabooks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks always have an audiobook in my ear! 3y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 🎉Amazing!🎉I'm in awe of your dedication to reading & listening to books. 3y

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Megabooks I wish I liked audiobooks!! 3y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick me too!! 3y

BarbaraBB I‘m in awe seeing visualized what I already knew 😍 (edited) 3y

Megabooks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks thank you! 🥰🥰 I didn‘t start audiobooks until late 2016, and it took me awhile to find preferences in listening, which make a huge difference in enjoyment! (edited) 3y

Megabooks @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick thank you so much Kelly!! 💜💜 3y

Megabooks @BarbaraBB thanks dear friend!! 💜😘 3y

Cinfhen WOWZA 😁🙌🏻♥️🍾😘 3y

britt_brooke 🤯🙌🏼🤸🏼‍♀️🎉 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen thanks!! 😁🥰🎉😘 3y

Megabooks @britt_brooke it was a crazy year!! 🤯👍🏻 3y

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Matrix | Lauren Groff

I have so enjoyed seeing everyone‘s #Top21of21 lists, but it took me ALL DAY to pick these out of the 506 books I‘ve read (so far) this year! The top left corner are my three tip top picks, but these are all books I loved and/or made me think in 2021. No rereads from prior years are included.

Thank you for tagging me @Cinfhen @youneverarrived @Lizpixie @KarenUK If you have not been tagged - please play!

Cinfhen The moment I‘ve been waiting for 😁😘😘😘I‘m 💯 adding

Nightbitch

Cinfhen Need to enlarge this post so I can study it more closely 🤩 what an incredible year of reading for you🙌🏻💕 3y

Cinfhen Also I‘ll be addin

Cultish: The Secret Language You Didn't Know You Were Using

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Cinfhen And

The Island of Missing Trees

Cinfhen Amazed you were able to condense it 😅 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen it was so hard to condense!!! It was truly an unparalleled year of reading. I hope you love those three as much as I did! 👍🏻😘 3y

squirrelbrain Great list, Meg! We have a few the same… I loved Cultish and The Island of Missing Trees too, they just missed my #top21 @Cinfhen 3y

Bookwormjillk Seek You was really good. 3y

julesG I had the same problem, Meg. It was hard to choose only 21. And my brain kept nagging, 'what if you read a really really good book in the next 12 days?' 3y

julesG Also, why didn't I add Hail Mary? Did I maybe read the ARC last December? Now I need to check. 3y

Cinfhen I definitely remember you reading Hail Mary @julesG !!!!! 3y

julesG @Cinfhen Yep, scarfed it down in April. Then infected the kid, who's been listening to the audiobook on loop since then. Maybe that's why I didn't add it? That and The Chronicles of St Mary's, which have been on loop for me. (I'm really getting my money's worth out of the 14 books I ordered from the author.) 3y

KarenUK Love your list Meg! And some are on my TBR for next year, so I‘m even more excited….. 💕 3y

Megabooks @squirrelbrain Amanda has become an auto-read for me. I just saw her on a documentary about the MLM LuLaRoe. Missing Trees was excellent! Shakaf is so imaginative! 3y

Megabooks @Bookwormjillk totally agree. 3y

Megabooks @julesG I can see why you might not want remember having a sick kid! PHM was great. 👍🏻 3y

Megabooks @KarenUK thanks! I‘m always excited to see what you‘re reading because you get a lot of arcs as well. 😁💜 3y

julesG 😁😂 Meg, he wasn't sick. I infected him with the PHM virus. 🤭🤭🤭 Sorry, I should have made that more clear. 3y

Megabooks @julesG lol! Whoops! 😂😂 3y

youneverarrived Took a screenshot 😁 I‘ve actually not read any of these but there are a few on my tbr! Are there any you would recommend that were good on audio? I‘ve got a few credits to use 🤍 3y

Megabooks @youneverarrived all my top three I read as audiobooks, but Bourdain is a must listen! Also Project Hail Mary is AH-mazing on audio!! 3y

Megabooks @youneverarrived Unbound is great on audio too as well as Nightbitch. 👍🏻 3y

marleed Such a great list! Interesting that books on your list we both read made my list, as well. It makes me think I should stack the rest of your list! 3y

britt_brooke Nice picks! Four of my top reads are in there, but I still need to do my collage. Congrats on breaking 500! I bow to your reading prowess!! 3y

Megabooks @marleed I have noticed that we have both enjoyed many of the books we‘ve read in common! I‘m so excited to see what you read next year. 3y

Megabooks @britt_brooke thank you!! It was truly an exceptional year!! 👍🏻 3y

BarbaraBB Just noticed this post on Instagram and can‘t believe I missed it because I was eagerly anticipating it! I see so many books I read because of you! And I have enjoyed most of them so much. It‘s a pleasure to be influenced by you! (And I need to read the fiction on this list that I didn‘t yet!) ❤️ 3y

BarbaraBB Also - because you read over 500 books you should be allowed to share your 42 best ones 😀😘 3y

BarbaraBB Sorry, one more comment: I notice you use the hashtag #top21in21 instead of #top21of21. That‘s probably why I missed your post! 3y

Megabooks @BarbaraBB whoops re: hashtag! It has been corrected. 👍🏻 the post Scott made of my #NewYearWhoDis list has some ones that would be in a top 42 because it was a different day. 😉 I can email you that if you want to see it. We have definitely influenced each other this year!! Thank you for sending Summerwater too! 😁 3y

Chelsea.Poole Oh my I have been checking for your list and somehow missed it!! A fabulous 21 as I knew it would be 📚♥️ several here barely missed my list. I agree about the John Green and I have you to thank for

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Chelsea.Poole I have several of these planned for next year including The Trees, Kin, Precious Days and Nightbitch (which I would have never picked up on my own and that‘s why I love this reading community!) (edited) 3y

youneverarrived Thank you! ♥️ I‘ve downloaded Project Hail Mary and Unbound is one that‘s on my tbr so think I‘ll get that one too. 3y

Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole I have so enjoyed reading many of the same books as you this year! The #YearOfMemoirs was truly epic! I can‘t wait to see what you read next year. 😁 3y

Megabooks @youneverarrived I think you‘ll love both on audio!! 💜 3y

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Untitled | Unknown

I think the #YearOfMemoirs is over. Tbh, after 127 in a single year, I‘m pretty tired of the genre.

October is the first month that something other than memoirs was number one, 8 literary fiction versus 6 memoirs! Plus it‘s the first month this year that I read more fiction than nonfiction. I‘m hoping to keep the F/NF trend going!

Cinfhen, Chelsea.Poole

Cinfhen That‘s a whole lot memoirs! 🙌🏻💕🤓 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen it is! 3y

Amiable Which memoir(s) was your favorite? Which was least favorite? Did any of them surprise you? (edited) 3y

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Chelsea.Poole Wow! 127! 😎 A change of pace is always nice. Lately I‘ve been noticing I read almost every other book F then a NF. I get too bogged down in dense NF titles but then I also can‘t handle too much F either. I still find I‘m much more engaged with memoirs than most anything else these days though! 3y

Chelsea.Poole Also, looking forward to all your reviews, no matter what you‘re reading! 😊 3y

Megabooks @Amiable highest rated

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Megabooks @Amiable a sentimental fave - set in KY

Kin: A Memoir

Megabooks @Amiable worst!!!

The Astor Orphan: A Memoir

Megabooks @Amiable as far as surprise me - I liked some of the juicier celeb memoirs for seeing behind the curtain, even if I didn‘t rate them highly, like

Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole yeah, I‘m trying to turn to fiction more. I used to do the every other, but I became such a mood reader. Probably the most relaxing thing I read is history because you know how it turns out. 🤷🏻‍♀️ and thank you! I‘m trusting you to tell me if there are any memoirs I‘m missing out on! (edited) 3y

Crazeedi @Megabooks I love your graph! Where do you get this? You've done so well, you always read the most interesting sounding books . Thanks Meg for all your posts, I enjoy them. Happy November!🌬 3y

Megabooks @Crazeedi happy November to you too! This is from the storygraph, which lets you track your reading and gives you cool graphs about it among other things. I like it much more than GR! They have an app and a website: https://www.thestorygraph.com/ 3y

Megabooks @Crazeedi and thank you. Your friendship means a lot! 3y

Crazeedi @Megabooks thank you, now that you say, I've heard of this, I need to check it out. I think you have to pay for it don't you? It might really be worth it 3y

Megabooks @Crazeedi it is free. And the free version is fantastic. There is an upgraded version that contains a few more graphs and upgraded recommendations. The above are in the free version. 3y

Crazeedi @Megabooks I just downloaded the app to my tablet and phone, yay!!! Thanks so much. I am trying to get on board to as many challenges for next year. I did great for the first 6 months this year then I fell off the world, lol. So I am going to try again next year!! 3y

BookNAround That is a *lot* of memoirs! 3y

Megabooks @BookNAround it is!!! 😂😂 3y

Megabooks @Crazeedi a lot of people put litsy challenges on the storygraph. @jenniferw88 put #ReadingAfrica2022 up. Go to challenges and search her handle (I think it‘s the same) or the challenge name. I‘m sure someone will put #Booked2022 up. @Cinfhen any idea if someone has already?? 3y

Megabooks @Crazeedi I‘m desperately trying to hang on to make my reading goal by end of year. I had a test come up positive for intestinal inflammation, likely Crohn‘s. The other options are worse than Crohn‘s, so I‘m not happy. I get a colonoscopy a week from Tuesday and an upper endoscopy a week later. 3y

Cinfhen I can try to add it, or maybe @BarbaraTheBibliophage has those superpowers 🦸‍♂️ I haven‘t been on storygraph since June 😬🙄😩 3y

BarbaraBB Great stats again! Do you have the payed version of The Storygraph? 3y

jenniferw88 @Megabooks yep, same handle! I try to keep it the same over all my social media. 3y

jenniferw88 @Megabooks in a way, i hope it is the crohn's, and not worse. Good luck for the procedures! 3y

Megabooks @jenniferw88 me too! Yes, I‘m holding out a little hope that it‘s a spurious result or lab error 🤞🏻🤞🏻, but I‘m definitely symptomatic. 3y

Megabooks @BarbaraBB I do! I don‘t necessarily use all of it, but I‘ve enjoyed the enhanced recommendations and graphs. 👍🏻 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen ah! If no one does it by the time I get through the next couple of weeks, I‘ll try. Just very busy this week and next! 3y

jenniferw88 @Cinfhen @Megabooks I'm happy to do it! 😊😂 3y

Crazeedi @Megabooks ❤ keeping you in my prayers 3y

Cinfhen That‘s awesome 🤩 THANK YOU @jenniferw88 ❤️❤️❤️ 3y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @Megabooks I will add it in the next week or so. I have an account on Storygraph but really haven‘t used it. Been thinking about moving to it instead of GR. 3y

Megabooks @BarbaraTheBibliophage @jenniferw88 has added it over on the storygraph! 👍🏻👍🏻 3y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Megabooks Awesome — thanks @jenniferw88 3y

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Weekly Forecast | Thomas Gibson Inc

Note all the fiction! I think the #YearOfMemoirs is almost over. For everything there is a season (year), I guess. I‘m looking forward to more #audiobook fiction. 👍🏻

Chainsaw came as an incentive for restarting my Libro.fm membership, and I feel I should do one seasonal read.

Bourdain has been amazing! Finishing up and gathering thoughts for a review tomorrow. Such a complicated life.

Have a great Sunday y‘all! #WeeklyForecast

Cinfhen

Cinfhen Wow!!! I love this brimming forecast🥰🥰🥰and you‘re listening to one of my FAVORITE books EVER!!! Is it GREAT on audio????

This Is Where I Leave You

BarbaraBB So much fiction! 3y

CaroPi Let me know how you feel about The Plot. 3y

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Megabooks @Cinfhen it is fantastic on audio! Hilarious book! I‘ve read more fiction than nonfiction this month. 🤯 we‘ll see how long it lasts because my library gets in better (for me) nonfiction titles than fiction. Also I‘ve read 5 botm‘s so far this month!! 🤯🤯 3y

Megabooks @BarbaraBB right?! I‘m running 60/40 percent fiction/nonfiction this month! Crazy 3y

Megabooks @CaroPi I‘ll tag you in my review 👍🏻 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen also I‘m blocked on reviews again. 😩 3y

BarbaraBB I received a BD parcel today! I‘ll hide it until 13 November 🥳. Thank you so much!!! 🥰 3y

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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement | Tarana Burke

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I have a #MemoirHangover from this beautiful #audiobook. 5⭐️ and one of the best during this #YearOfMemoirs!

Tarana shares her journey from victim to advocate and why she started #MeToo. She has amazing courage. She gave Black girls a way to share their pain long before Alyssa Milano posted to Twitter. I‘m glad so many people have benefited from her work, and I feel privileged to be able to read her story. Thank you, Tarana!

Cinfhen

Cinfhen #STACKED !!! I‘ll probably use a credit if I can‘t borrow xx 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen yes!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻 3y

Megabooks I know you love excellent nonfiction @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 👍🏻 3y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Stacking!!! 3y

Chelsea.Poole Glad to hear it‘s one of the best for you! I‘m waiting for this one on Libby 😊 3y

Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole ooooo!! I hope you get it soon! 👍🏻 3y

MayJasper #coversublime 3y

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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal | Jen Waite

so-so

This book was more terrible than beautiful to this unmarried reader.

Jen‘s husband is definitely a bad guy and probably a sociopath and caused me to ask my dad how cynical I am about relationships because none of Jen‘s husband‘s moves surprised me. Perhaps I do think the worst. 🤔 (Note: he said I‘m somewhat cynical.)

Overall, not a compelling or enthralling memoir but not the worst either. 😑

#YearOfMemoirs #audiobook #ChirpDeals

Megabooks Forgot to tag you @Cinfhen sorry!! 💕💕 3y

Cinfhen Hahaha!! I love that your dad gave you his most truthful response 😆I read this years ago and I remember NOT LIKING IT or the couple!!! I found myself having very little empathy for the author 3y

Librariana I like that even though it wasn't a terrific read, it still prompted a conversation with your dad 😊 3y

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Megabooks @Cinfhen very unlikable!! Just didn‘t evoke a lot of sympathy. Odd book. And yes, gotta love dad! 3y

Megabooks @Librariana yes, it was interesting to hear what he thinks! 3y

TheLudicReader Interesting. I actually really related to this book and saw a lot of my own experiences in it, but this is why books and reading are so much fun. Everyone has a different experience when they read. 😁 3y

Megabooks @TheLudicReader well, that‘s one reason that I said I‘m unmarried. I think there are things about being married/in a committed LTR that I don‘t get as an aromantic person. That being said, I‘ve read other books of this ilk, and this was not my favorite among them. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I‘m glad you enjoyed it! 3y

TheLudicReader I wish there was a function on Litsy that allowed you to like a comment, @Megabooks …then I could have just done that to acknowledge your response and say “yep, I get it”. 😍 3y

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Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood | Qian Julie Wang

I did for the #BookmojiSocks! I picked the memoir because #YearOfMemoirs, but I hate that my box won‘t ship until the 3rd!! 👎🏻👎🏻 I was hoping to get the Rooney add-on early. ☹️ #botm

Cinfhen, Reviewsbylola

vivastory Yeah, I figured they would be delaying any boxes with the Rooney 3y

Reviewsbylola Yeah that part annoys me and it doesn‘t make much sense to me. Wouldn‘t the publisher want to entice people to choose the book? I feel like the late shipping has the opposite effect. That said, it didn‘t stop me from ordering it. 😂 3y

Cinfhen Great box!!!! I would have chosen the same 3 but I feel like I can probably borrow all three of these books before I actually physically get to them 3y

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BarbaraBB The new Rooney! I pre-ordered it and hope to receive it the 9th! (edited) 3y

Megabooks @Reviewsbylola yes to everything you wrote!! 3y

Megabooks @vivastory it‘s the memoir (which is the main pick) that‘s causing the delay! I don‘t believe Rooney‘s add-on affects shipping time. 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen probably so re: getting them!! 3y

Megabooks @BarbaraBB it comes out here on the 7th and I have not canceled my pre-order yet! I‘m going to cancel when my BOTM box ships. I want that book!! 3y

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Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage | Eleanor Henderson

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This is a lot to process. Eleanor and Aaron have been together since she was 17. This book is the story of their 25+ year marriage and Aaron‘s illness. Aaron has substance abuse issues, but somewhere along the way, he also developed a confounding skin condition/mental illness that has had doctor‘s flummoxed or put him on the crazy list. A lot of this is her story of trying to get him help while protect their children from his wild mood swings ⬇️

Cinfhen

Megabooks ⬆️ and suicide attempts. It‘s the story of two people, two children, and how the scars of childhood can continue to haunt you. (Also a CW for off the page incestuous molestation.) I‘d call this #audiobook a #BorrowNotBuy, but I think some readers will really relate. 3y

Cinfhen Sounds super heavy but the premise sounds compelling 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen it was really heavy. Great way to describe it. I had to put it down a number of times just to get through. 3y

Megabooks This is my 100th memoir this year @Chelsea.Poole ! I think I can safely call this the #YearOfMemoirs! My next most has under 50. (Literary fiction) 🤯 3y

Chelsea.Poole Oh my goodness! I‘m excited to see how many you will have read by the end of the year! Also, this one looks great. 3y

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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir | Lacy Crawford

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If it weren‘t for the sexual assault, this would read like a regular boarding school memoir. In fact, a quite bit of it reads typically of that. However, per the title, the heinousness is in the coverup, by the school and later by private and state attorneys. Not to discount her experience of the assault, but what makes her story unique is the systemic suppression of victims over time and the tampering with private medical records. #audiobook

Cinfhen

Cinfhen #stacked 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen I really liked her narration of the audiobook. She‘s got a great voice. 3y

Chelsea.Poole Yes, I agree! 3y

Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole 👯‍♀️ #YearOfMemoirs! 3y

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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year | Matt McCarthy

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I‘m a sucker for a good physician memoir, and this hit the spot of what I was in the mood for this afternoon! Matt didn‘t quite feel prepared for the realities of life as an intern on the first day of his internal medicine residency, but with curiosity, determination, and heart, he found his rhythm as a doctor. If you enjoyed This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay, give Matt‘s memoir a shot. 💉🩺

Cinfhen, Chelsea.Poole

Cinfhen Clever review\ I like a good pun 😀 3y

Megabooks @Cinfhen I was hoping someone would pick up on those!! 😂😘 3y

Chelsea.Poole Ooh stacked, of course! 😉 3y

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Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole awesome! #YearOfMemoirs 3y

Centique 😂😂 3y

Megabooks @Centique 😉😁 3y

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