Reading takes me away. I can be in Bali while snuggled on the couch in pj’s with a cuppa, or just as easily be in Paris in 1940. Reading historical fiction makes me appreciate all I have to be grateful for. To see how far we have progressed albeit I feel sometimes the old ways were better.
I use the Goodreads Ap to keep track of MY personal challenge as well as a place to keep a list of books I have read and want to read.....just like patterns, I've downloaded the same book more than once. My challenge for 2022 was 26 books. I didn't want to set the bar too high and feel defeated if I didn't meet the challenge. Well, I doubled it. I read, or listened to, 52 books in 2023. I am not trying to shame others with my number. It is MY challenge to myself. I read at mealtime, I listen while stitching; I just have a lot of alone time to fill. Some do not agree that audio books should count but having to take some long car drives by myself, audio books have become my friends. Not only when driving, but doing hours of yard work in the spring and summer, I pop those air pods in and I off to the beach in Nantucket, or walking through the pre-revolutionary colonies.
I read almost exclusively off my iPad. When I got my first Kindle about 10 years ago it took about a minute to get used to that versus a physical book and I have not looked back. For me, I love the portability of taking the iPad versus a big old book as well as, oops! I finished and viola a quick download of the next book in an instant.
I think this year was a fluke as for the number so I am bravely setting my 2023 challenge at 36!
My Statistics for 2022
52 books read
18,393 pages
Shortest book - 13 pages (??)
Longest book - 973 pages
Average book length - 353 pages
Most shelved book - Of Mice and Men
Least shelved book - The Jade Dragon
Some of my favorites from 2022
The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
The Escape by David Baldacci
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
My Name is Resolute by Nancy Turner
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand
Next Year in Havana by Channel Cleeton
Cider House Rules by John Irving
Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles
Congrats on reading more than you predicted!
ReplyDeleteMarilyn
I love to read and you will usually find me with a book in hand during the mid-evening reading. I was the one who had their nose in a book at recess time.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Robin! I too listen to books when traveling in the car, though when I'm with my hubby, it tends to be podcasts. I have not been reading as much as I used to and need to get out of this slump. I've become more of a TV girl...so easy to do while stitching, but listening to books is just as easy! i just tend to have to keep rewinding as my mind wanders while listening. I'll have to work on this!!!
ReplyDeleteI have tinnitus so I fall asleep every night listening to a book to mask the sound. Currently halfway through a 4-book series on the Plantagenets and almost finished with Charles Spencer's The White Ship.
ReplyDeleteWell you are ahead of me by fifty books. I just don't read like I used to.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend.
Shirley