It's halfway through the year, which means it's time for LIBRO-STAT-MANIA 2019 (part 1)! First, some basic stats: Books read: 37 (that's a book finished every 4.91 days, though as I've written before I don't directly track amount of time to finish)Pages: 10051 (average of 271.6 pages per book)Average publication date: 1997Newest book: Live and …
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Books, June 2019
Head over to the other post for the mid-2019 analysis. Book of the month: Circe, Madeline Miller I have a confession to make: I accidentally joined a book club - that's not the confession, sometimes life's just like that - and I have spent three months not writing about the books from book club! But …
Books, May 2019
You know the feeling of returning a library book, when there's people in the hold queue after you, and you know they're about to get the notification their book is ready for them? Especially if it's an ebook, and they'll get the book itself literally the instant you return it? If you don't, I suggest …
Books, April 2019
April marks the delightful (Seattle) Independent Bookstore Day, which this year was celebrated by 21 local bookstores (three of which have multiple locations) in Seattle and nearby areas. Visit 3, and get 30% off any one purchase at any one bookstore. Visit all 21, and get 25% off everywhere for a year. I cannot be …
Books, March 2019
The Hugo and Nebula award nominees are out this month! In addition to the many nominees I have read this year, I also am a HUGE fan of nominee Lindsay Ellis's video essays, and am just as much NOT a fan of the Hobbit movies as she is and extensively explains in her nominated piece. …
Books, February 2019
I don't purposely read multiple installments from a series in a month so I only write about it once... but I also don't not do that. Featured book of the month:March, Books 1-3, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell Before John Lewis was a US Representative, he was one of the most prominent leaders …
Books, January 2019
New year, new books. Also, old books. Also, books that are actually plays. Book of the month: The Detroit Project - Paradise Blue, Detroit '67, Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morrisseau * The Detroit Project is a trilogy of plays spaced through arc of Detroit and its citizens in 1949, 1967, and 2008. I had vaguely had …
A year in books, 2018
Last year I was proud of reducing my books owned but not read yet to 23. This year, I had to get a new bookshelf, and I still can't fit all the to-reads onto a single shelf. Oops. It's been a bountiful year. Picks of the year I am bad at picking a single favorite, …
Books, December 2018
WordPress installed a bunch of new stuff last month and I'm finally learning how to use it. Please enjoy some shiny new formatting! Pick of the month: Binti trilogy (Binti, Home, The Night Masquerade), Nnedi Okorafor Binti is the first from her people, and one of only a few from Earth at all, to be …
Books, November 2018
It's the time of year where I'm starting to think on my best-of picks for the year, and as usual, I have some late-coming strong contenders. I sure hope it's not just a recency effect. Featured book of the month: To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis Time travel stories are notoriously fussy. One …
