What Red Read: September Reading Wrap-Up

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

September Reading Wrap-Up

September is over and how it is HOLIDAY SEASON. First up, Halloween which I loooooooove even though I never do anything for Halloween beyond watch Nightmare Before Christmas. Although now that I typed that I realized last year I couldn't find my copy of Nightmare which is depressing. So I guess it will be more listening to the soundtrack while I watch Beetlejuice and try to figure out what the hell I did with my copy of that movie. Anyway.

I actually did pretty well in September with my reading. Which is surprising. I'm not really sure why or what about the season meant I made it through more books than I've been reading over the summer. But I did. Take that, past me.

Number of books read
7!
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Kill Shakespeare: A Sea of Troubles by Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col, and Andy Belanger
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (review from the first time I read it)
I Wear The Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) by Chuck Klosterman
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix (turns out I actually read 8 books and somehow forgot this one)

Total pages read
2,091

Percentage of fiction read
43% - whaaaaa? Could this be why I got through so many books?

Percentage of female authors
57%

Percentage of white authors
86% - BUT NOT 100%

Percentage of US authors
100% - ::hangs head about new disappointing stat::

Percentage of ebooks
14% - I thought it was way more than that

Percentage of rereads
14%

Percentage of review books
0%

Books written by decade
2000s - 29%
2010s - 71%

Books by genre
Horror - 14%
Essays - 29%
Graphic novels - 29%
Science - 14%
Love story - 14%

So I marginally improved my white-people stat. Even though it was accidental. As in, I didn't actively TRY to find a book by a POC and instead just stumbled upon one. Which is how I like these stats to improve because then it doesn't involve extra effort on my part. Hooray lazy.

I also didn't realize I ended up reading so much nonfiction last month. How'd that happen? I wonder if that's why I got so much more read. Or maybe correlation doesn't equal causation and I don't have enough other information to say if that's really why.

Also I'm juuuuuust about caught up with my August reviews so will I be able to finish reviewing the September books before October is out? Probably not! But you never know.

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readingrambo 112p · 547 weeks ago

Daaamn that's a lot of books. Well done, madam.

I keep feeling like I SHOULD read Bad Feminist, but I weirdly don't want to.

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What Red Read 121p · 547 weeks ago

It was good, even if my fav essay may have been the least feministy one (it's about Scrabble!) and I disagreed with several of the points she makes. BUT I still enjoyed it a lot. Her points weren't bad, I was just like "I hear what you're saying and why you're saying it, but respectfully disagree."

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Emily · 547 weeks ago

Ooh, I loved the Scrabble essay, too. I read half the book, enjoyed it a lot, then had to put it back down for REASONS. Mostly work related ones. But I hope to finally finish Bad Feminist this month. I'm about 1/2-3/4 of the way through several books right now and I'm sad I didn't finish them before the end of September. Whomp.

I really love how diverse your reading was this month when broken up be genre. Well done, you!

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What Red Read 121p · 546 weeks ago

I feel like I'm doing it wrong considering that was probably my fav essay out of that book. But whatever, it was.

If there's one stat I can guarantee to be diverse, it's my genre. Everything else is pretty much the same, but the genres tend to be a mix

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Kayleigh_M 92p · 547 weeks ago

Nicely read ma'am! And look, barely a 100% stat in sight!

Did you like Kill Shakespeare? I'm currently reading the latest run of the series (volume 4, except not really a volume? It involves Shakespearian pirates)

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What Red Read 121p · 546 weeks ago

I liked it enough that I'll probably pick up volume 2 at some point. But I still liked the style less than say Maus or Fun Home. I think the more traditional comic book style just doesn't appeal to me, so I mostly made it through this cos YAY SHAKESPEARE

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Laura · 546 weeks ago

I saw the word shakespeare and just winced a tiny bit... I might need a break! WELL DONE on not just reading white people, so proud of you, man! I also read more in September than possssibly any other month this year, which I think is because I was excited for RIP (and scary books are easier to read) and because it was my last chance to read anything nice and novel-y for a WHILE.

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What Red Read 121p · 546 weeks ago

You ALREADY need a Shakespeare break?? Oy

I need to pick more horror books. 'TIS THE SEASON

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susanblogginboutbooks 43p · 546 weeks ago

I love the premise behind HEART-SHAPED BOX. It was such a creepy story, too. Perfect Halloween read!

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What Red Read 121p · 546 weeks ago

I wasn't completely sold on it at first but as it went on I got more and more into it.

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jennysbooks 89p · 546 weeks ago

I AM THE WORST, I read so few things in September. I just lazed around and read The Golden Bough and learned about how people did magic in ye olden days.

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What Red Read 121p · 546 weeks ago

That was pretty much my entire summer (the lazing around bit because I haven't read The Golden Bough [but should I??]). I think my brain is still like "September is when school starts so time to get that reading done!"

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