I suppose I could do this Jan 1st and to a degree will.
I had a few guiding goals going into the year: Abandon books instead of slog, read more BIPOC, more queer, more in translation
more by disabled, more in French.
About 10% BIPOC. On French, I finished none. What/who counts as disabled? Bit hard to quantify. 8% self-declared queer. I quit more books, so this year no books 1 star of 5 completed.
Because our world is interconnected, I am not attempting to read Canada, but observe where. 4/5 Canadian, a quarter American, almost a tenth British.
28 books were re-reads, which is the highest year for me. A push to revisit.
Reading books that are not current took a hit by not making that a focus. Half were published within a year, almost 80% within 12 years. Deep history, not so much. Only 10 titles are from over a century ago.
But 7 sci-fi fantasy, a growing section. I read half the amount of fan fiction compared to last year.
60% poetry last year. 52% this year. Same number of chapbooks as last year, 70-some. A tange of 8 pages to 1200 pages. So far the average is about 145 pages of a title. About half for free by library, Little Free Library, gift or review copies.
Where do these things come from? House gnomes?
Online, book fairs, directly from the author or publisher mostly, nearly 60% that way. Next 13% from a library or Amazon. Only 13 titles new from a bookstore. That strikes me as few but twice as much as last year. Used book stores are close to the same.
Next I suppose, the fav list of most recommend…