Friday, April 1, 2011

March Reading Wrap-Up!

March has ended, and bookishly speaking, this month kind of kicked my ass. Actually, it's not the month's fault, it's Jonathan Bate and his Soul of the Age that I'm still making my way through, thus not making my way through a lot of other books. I will persevere though! Because I am stubborn and I don't want to lose a fight with a book.

I figure in addition to doing my normal monthly wrap-up, I thought I'd see how I'm doing for the quarter, because I work in corporate America so my life is split into quarters like that.

March
Number of books read (meaning completed this month)
4
Reduced Shakespeare by the Reduced Shakespeare Company
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
You Suck by Christopher Moore
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Total pages read (from the books above)
1,334

Percentage of fiction read
75%

Percentage of female authors
25%

Percentage of white authors
100% - lame. This will need rectified

Percentage of authors from the US
50%

Percentage of eBooks
25%

Percentage of re-reads
50%

Books written by decade
1810s - 25%
2000s - 75%

OK, I need to work on non-white authors. Let's see how I'm doing for the quarter

Q1
Number of books read
14

Total number of pages read
4,975

Percentage of fiction read
71%

Percentage of female authors
43%

Percentage of white authors
93%

Percentage of authors from the US
79%

Percentage of eBooks
29%

Percentage of re-reads
29%

Books written by decade
1810s - 7%
1970s - 7%
1990s - 14%
2000s - 57%
2010s - 14%

Alright, so from these I'm thinking I need to work on the following:
Read more books by non-white authors
Read more books written before the 1990s
Read more non-US authors

How are your reading stats looking (if you're anal enough to be keeping reading stats that is)? Do you have any reading goals?