Friday, December 30, 2011

December Reading Wrap-Up

The month is almost out. I feel like December actually moved at a normal pace until Christmas Eve, at which point time flew by. Which is preferably to the entire month flying by. I also spread the book love this month and got Boyfriend a copy of The Art of Fielding for Christmas since he a) loooooooves baseball b) doesn't read all that often but expressed interest in this book and c) I (kinda) want to read it too. Boyfriend returned the book love by getting me the Great Gatsby Postertext. Granted I pointed him in that direction. And many thanks to Brenna's Book Fetish posts at BookRiot for telling me about these.

Number of books read
6 (more than 1/2 due to the readathon)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Transformations by Anne Sexton
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg

Total pages read
2,024

Percentage of fiction read
83%

Percentage of female authors
33%

Percentage of white authors
83%

Percentage of US authors
83%

Percentage of ebooks
33%

Percentage of re-reads
33%

Books written by decade
1880s - 17%
1970s - 17%
1980s - 17%
2000s - 17%
2010s - 33%

Alright, not too bad. A little more diversity in US authors would be nice. Something to work on next year. But at least I got a couple female authors in there AND every book wasn't written in the last 20 years. Progress.