Category archives: stats ’n stuff

• Getting obsessed with knitting cut into my reading time this year
• I read 83 books plus 12 short stories by authors from 14 countries
• 48% of the fiction was SFFH
• My average reading speed was 37 pages an hour in English (a third of that in French and German)
• I read

• I read 109 books plus 18 short stories by authors from 27 countries
• 49% of the fiction was SFFH
• My average reading speed was 33 pages an hour in English (twice as slow in French, a third of that in German)
• I read 5 books in French, 3 books in German

• I read 117 books plus 31 short stories by authors from 25 countries
• 60% of the fiction was SFFH
• The fastest fiction I read was 50 pages an hour, the fastest nonfiction I read was 48 pages an hour, my pace was around 20 pages an hour in French, and 15

• I read 95 books plus 40 short stories from 18 countries originally written across 7 languages
• 64% of the fiction was SFFH
• I read 42 pages an hour on average with fiction, 35 pages an hour with nonfiction, 23 pages an hour in French, 18 pages an hour in German
• I

• I read 126 books plus 33 short stories from 19 countries
• 73% of the fiction was SFFH
• 77% of the authors were women
• 80% of the authors were people of colour

Authors

• ⬤ Women of Colour 89 (56%)
• ⬤ White Women 24 (15%)
• ⬤ Nonbinary POC 1 (1%)
• ⬤ Nonbinary White

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A few books I read before I started keeping track of read-dates, minus many Russians & classics:

★★★★½

• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
• In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
• The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
• Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West