In 2024, I managed a title per day, averaging 118 pages a day. I aimed to review 10% of the number of titles I read, but managed to rview 5% of titles, about 20 reviews in the year, which is almost two a month. Not outrageously terrible.
Two dozen were re-reads, a title per week were read aloud, or were audio books, which was more than i expected even if more or less the same as every year since 2020 when I began tracking it.
136 titles, that is 37%, were digital, and the remainder, paper. As I mentioned before, 60% are poetry, but specifically, 5% total were haiku or tanka. A little less than I thought but I did miss the conference so picked up no new titles. It’s harder than find in the wilds.
I flagged 28 titles as memorable. 68 I rated as 5/5 and only half a dozen I pursued to the bitter end despite feeling it as 1/5. If it’s not for me, better to quit, but stretch reads are building hooks for the future. I have qualms about rating as the cases where one poem or line or scene sent me but the rest okay or blasé. How do I even indicate that except for in my comment field?
Okay, that’s it for now. My instagram post as usual, lists particulars of titles.