Wednesday, June 1, 2016

May Reading Wrap-Up

May is past and by the end it FINALLY started feeling like spring. And then like a day later summer because I'm pretty sure we got like 3 (non-consecutive) warm-and-not-raining days before it jumped right up to the 80s and 90s but that is FINE because I'm tired of cool weather. I'm ready for some rooftop bars. I feel like May was a fairly successful reading month too, and surprisingly heavy on non-fiction, which wasn't intentional but not a bad thing either. Let's see what we've got!

Total books finished
6
Joyland by Stephen King (4 stars)
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda (5 stars)
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa (4 stars)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (4 stars)
Yes, Please by Amy Poehler (4 stars)

Total pages read
1,684 (which is 1 page more than April and officially the most pages I've read in a month so far this year)

Fiction
33%

Female authors
67%
White authors
67%

US authors
83%

Book format
ebook - 50%
hardback - 17%
paperback - 33%

Where'd I get the book
chain bookstore - 17%
gift - 17%
indie bookstore - 17%
Kindle - 33%
NetGalley - 17%

Rereads
0%

Review books
17%

Readalong/Book club books
0%

Blogger reco
50%

Translation
17%

Books by decade
1990s - 17%
2010s - 83%

Books by genre
Lit Fic - 17%
Memoir - 17%
Mystery - 17%
Science - 33%
Theater - 17%

Resolution books
33%
Hamilton: The Revolution written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (aka, not a white guy) and Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa (not white, not US AND a translation)