What Red Read: August Reading Wrap-up

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

August Reading Wrap-up

Summer is over. I love fall and all, but I'm still pretty bummed come the end of summer. I blame years of school and summer meaning time off, even if I didn't have time off. But still August is over and thus summer is done and we're into fall and PUMPKIN ALL THE THINGS.

I'm super behind on reviews still, apologies for that. I will get caught up. Eventually. Before the end of the year? Hey, anything could happen!

Anyway, that stats!

Number of books read
5
SuperFreakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt (review from first time around)
How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (review from last year)
Zombie, Inc. by Chris Dougherty
Maus: A Survivor's Tale I My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Number of pages read
1,828

Percentage of fiction read
66%

Percentage of female authors
50%

Percentage of white authors
100% - whitey white white white ::hangs head::

Percentage of US authors
66%

Percentage of ebooks
33%

Percentage of rereads
33%

Percentage of review books
0%

Books written by decade
1990s - 33%
2000s - 16%
2010s - 50%

Books by genre
Economics
Coming of age
Fantasy
Humor
Horror
Graphic novel

Let's see what September and autumn brings. Hopefully more non-white people. I like how I say that like I don't have control over what I read. Like it's up to the fates. OK so hopefully I will quit being a pain and will read something by non-white people.

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readingrambo 112p · 551 weeks ago

PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES I AM SORRY TO BE THAT PERSON BUT I AM SO EXCITED

Also. Ahahaha all white authors. Which is normally my thing, but I admire the fact you're pointing it out about yourself here. Encourages one to do better. HURRAY.

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What Red Read 121p · 551 weeks ago

No need to apologize for pumpkin spice lattes. I LOOOOOOOOVE THEM.

I look at my reading spreadsheet and it's like "white white white white white white black white white white white" and it's embarrassing. I hope by at least pointing it out to myself I'll read something by someone not-white. I could finish that Butler book I started a billion years ago...

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Emily · 551 weeks ago

Almost everybody I know has been putting Pumpkin Spice Latte references in their September wrap up posts. Everybody but me. I reckon I didn't get that memo...

I liked Where'd You Go, Bernadette even better the second time around. Maybe 'cause I was listening to it instead of reading it. But I did LOVE it.

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What Red Read 121p · 551 weeks ago

Have you not had a pumpkin spice latte? Or have you had them but decided they aren't your thing? Cos if you haven't had, I would recommend. Om nom nom

As soon as I finished Bernadette I wanted to start it again. I looooooove that book. I think I need to listen to the audio...

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Laura · 551 weeks ago

*devils advocate* Art Speigelman is Jewish which isn't always considered white... Just trying to, like, help you? (OMG HOW GOOD IS MAUS THOUGH?!)

Superfreakomics though- need to read it. Obviously.

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What Red Read 121p · 551 weeks ago

I totally considered that about Speigelman when I considered the race stat. But then I thought "if I do that, I'll need to figure out all of the past authors and if they were Jewish or not and...shit. Screw it. He's white."

OMG MAUS IS SO GOOD BUT I ONLY HAD PART 1 AND I NEED PART 2 BUT ALSO I NEED A BREAK FROM MAUS BECAUSE OMG HORRIBLE THINGS (Oh, the Nazis were horrible? You don't say.)

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Kayleigh_M 92p · 551 weeks ago

I have never been sadder about Australia being in different seasons because those 5 week in the US/Canada were the greatest for drinking festive drinks. I want pumpkin spice things and gingerbread lattes and GOD DAMN IT AUSTRALIA.

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What Red Read 121p · 551 weeks ago

Oh no. I looooove pumpkin things. Or more realistically, I like the spices that people put in pumpkin things and kind of don't care about the pumpkin part. Of course it's still like 90+ degrees in NYC so still too hot for pumpkin spice lattes.

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Bev · 551 weeks ago

But what you read is up to the Fates--at least if it works like it does with me...I go and stare at my TBR mountain range and whatever book calls to me (and it's totally random) is what I read next.

Wishing you good reading in September!

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What Red Read 121p · 551 weeks ago

But it's not REALLY up to the fates. At least not entirely. I do the same thing as you, basically, where I look at my TBR and pick a book that looks interesting and I'm in the mood for. But I'm the one putting together that TBR and if it's important to me to read more not-white people (and not that this has to or should be a priority for anyone else, just myself) then the onus is on ME to make that happen. If I want a more diverse reading experience, then I need to take responsibility when that doesn't happen.

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etudesque 73p · 550 weeks ago

You finished NEVERWHERE ugh, that is like, the white whale to my Cap'n Ahab, darn it!
... actually that is a terrible comparison, because unlike Ahab, I keep giving up on it. Props to you. Mad props.

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What Red Read 121p · 550 weeks ago

I liked Neverwhere. Certainly more than American Gods, which...no. No. How come you've given up on Neverwhere?

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etudesque 73p · 550 weeks ago

I just have unlucky timing - I always catch Neverwhere on the tail end of my reading streak, and then right after beginning Neverwhere for the billionth time, I go through a dry spell where I don't feel like finishing the book or picking up any new ones. Any advice? Maybe I should audiobook it, if there's one?

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What Red Read 121p · 550 weeks ago

I've actually heard that the audiobook/radio play of it is supposed to be EXCELLENT. That's actually what first got me interested but then I'm pretty sure the ebook was on one of those super sales so I picked that up instead. That might be the way to conquer it.

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jennysbooks 89p · 550 weeks ago

GOD. Why is everyone so autumny? It's going to be SO LONG before it is autumn here! I WANT AUTUMN TOOOOOO.

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What Red Read 121p · 550 weeks ago

ALL the stores are now full of pumpkin-all-the-things, despite the fact that around here anyway it has been super hot and muggy and these scents are not particularly appealing right now. That said, I could totally go for a pumpkin spice latte right now...

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