I read 38 books in January.
January factoids:
- 8, 164 pages read
- Burned through 7 hours 28 minutes of audio
- 33 fiction titles
- 5 nonfiction titles
- 17 UK authors
- 17 US authors
- 4 authors from around the globe
- 23 female authors
- 12 male authors
- 1 book with multiple authors
- 1 book by a nonbinary author
- 3 audiobooks
- 23 digital books
- 12 print books
- 11 books for Popsugar Reading Challenge
- 15 contemporary
- 1 cosy mystery
- 1 crime
- 4 general nonfiction
- 1 historical fiction
- 1 historical crime
- 1 literary fiction
- 8 poetry collections
- 2 science fiction
- 1 short story collection
- 3 thrillers
- 7 ARC's
- 3 Audible
- 1 Kindle Lending Library
- 14 library books
- 1 Amazon Vine
- 1 NetGalley
- 4 owned
- 5 Prime Reading
- 2 review copies
- 1-star read's = 0
- 2-star read's = 1
- 3-star read's = 4
- 4-star read's = 17
- 5-star read's = 16
My book of the Month for January
In 2019 I realised I'd become one of those people who finishes every book they start, whether they're enjoyable or not. Hence the number of 1 and 2 star reviews. I decided to change things this year and start to DNF (did not finish) books if I'm not enjoying myself 50-pages in. Life is short and I have too many books to read to waste my time with a dud. Here are the titles I DNF'd in January.
To be clear, I won't pick up or read any of these titles again.
The one exception is Russka by Edward Rutherfurd. I love his books but this audio version didn't work for me. The chapters are five or six hours long and I can't listen to an audio for that long in one sitting. I often had to stop halfway through a chapter to pick it up the next day. This made a disjointed experience so I gave up. I will read a physical or digital copy at some point.
Books carried into February
