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May Reading Stats

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May was a much better reading month than April! I finished a few books that I’ve been reading bits of here and there for a while. (Graphics courtesy of Story Graph!)

A lot more fiction last month than I typically read, so that was different! Part of that is because DH and I started listening to audio books together some evenings. This month we did Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Both were done very well. Richard Armitage (Thorin from the Hobbit movies) narrated Jekyll and Hyde! He did a really great job with it. Next we are thinking about listening to a Sherlock Holmes, maybe A Study in Scarlet. We’ll see.

I read Moby Dick along with knitting my Melville. Why? I don’t know – maybe to create some mood around the process? I had read it before and liked it. And I liked it again 🙂

The 2 mysteries are both from cozy series I have been reading and both were an acceptable level of both cozy and mystery. And finally, I have been reading Andean Folk Knitting for several months now. It is an old, many years out of print book. It took a while because it is a really dense book, both typographically and in subject matter. It’s a really detailed look at the topic and does have a few sample patterns. If you are interested in this topic and like to hunt for old books, this is a good one to put on your list.

Now a question for the readers – do you use a reading journal? If so, what features do you look for in a reading journal? Do you prefer using Story Graph or a similar online reading tracker? I ask because ads keep popping up for reading journals from the Quirky Cup Collective – they are just beautiful, but I don’t know that I would use them. So for those that do track their reading – what’s your preferred way to do that?

9 thoughts on “May Reading Stats”

  2. That’s a great list of books for the month! I do love being able to finish up long-term reads like that Folk Knitting one, too. It feels good to be able to mark it finished.

    Oooh… you want to know about my reading tracking… Well. I do three main things:

    online tracking (mostly StoryGraph, but I do cross-post reviews elsewhere)

    paper TBR journals where I list books in the order that I add them to my TBR list, and then track when I actually read them (I use a Moleskein notebook or 5 and some rubber stamps to track the very basics)

    Excel spreadsheets (if you’re interested I can link you to the version I used to get started with, though I have since made MANY modifications to the spreadsheet)

    I don’t bother with pre-made reading journals because they don’t track what I need them to and/or they are too much duplication from my online tracking and/or it would be way too expensive. My paper TBR journals fit 5 books per page, and most of the official reading journals I’ve seen have only 1 (maybe 2) books par page, so in order to track what I want, I would need to buy a LOT more journals than I do now.

    Here’s a post from 5 years ago where I have some pictures of my TBR journals: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2020/06/28/sunday-sundry-book-journals/

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    1. Wow – thank you! You have some great methods for tracking your reading! I love the idea of the book review stamp set – I will look for something like that, and then I can just use my regular journal. Or start a dedicated one… Thank you for the wonderful ideas!!

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  3. Personally I record my daily reading on StoryGraph as I like to try to keep my days in a row flame burning and a high number but some days I just don’t find a minute to read so I miss a day. I also keep a handwritten list of books in my diary/journal that I update daily which is handwritten. If you are still bullet journaling you could probably create a book section without the need for another purchase.

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