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October Stats

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Books read this month: 31*

New books: 20

Re-reads: 11 (6 audiobooks)

Books from the to-read pile: 4

NetGalley books read: 2

Kindle Unlimited read: 8

Ebooks: 5

Audiobooks: 6

Non-fiction books: 2

Favourite book this month: Probably A Dark and Stormy Murder

Most read author: Charlaine Harris, with the Lily Bard reread

Books bought: moving on….

Books read in 2024: 336

Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 754

A pretty solid month by figures, but still more than I’d like in novellas rather than actual books because that means it’s not reducing either the physical TBR pile or the Netgalley list. Still in the main they’re coming via KU so at least it means I’m getting value out of that membership!

Bonus picture: is it wrong to be proud of a cake?! Any way, I made this and I was so…

*includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – including 7 this month!

The pile

Books Incoming: Mid-October edition

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So, an unusual month in a way, in that I’ve already read three of the books in this picture. So on the bright side, they’re not on the pile – they’re already off and through. On the downside, there were only two more until I went into Foyles this week and got carried away. Never mind. Four more on the pile is better than it has been. And I have all the Museum mysteries now so I can’t buy any more of those, which is something I guess. Although the Olivia Blackie is a new to me series so that could be dangerous in itself. Wish me luck…

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September Stats

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Books read this month: 36* which seems like more than I was expecting!

New books: 29

Re-reads: 7 (all audiobooks)

Books from the to-read pile: 13

NetGalley books read: 4

Kindle Unlimited read: 8

Ebooks: 4

Audiobooks: 7

Non-fiction books: 5

Favourite book this month: Kingmaker or the Masquerades of Spring

Most read author: Sheila Connolly – four in the Fundraising the Dead series

Books bought: still not counting, because Kuala Lumpur was… book heavy

Books read in 2024: 305

Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 747

A pretty solid month I’m going to say helped a fair bit by those long haul flights right at the start. And now we enter the last quarter of the year heading towards the festive season and all the Christmas books…

Bonus picture: Worrals goes East may have been a terrible book, but it did push me over the 200 book mark for the year. Time to up the target!

*includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – including 4 this month!

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August Stats

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Books read this month: 29*

New books: 29

Re-reads: 2 (all audiobooks)

Books from the to-read pile: 9

NetGalley books read: 3

Kindle Unlimited read: 15

Ebooks: 0

Audiobooks: 2

Non-fiction books: 0

Favourite book this month: probably Let’s Play Dead by Sheila Connelly, given that I went and bought the first book and third book in the series straight after I finished it and have read the first one already!

Most read author: Patti Benning

Books bought: not counting…

Books read in 2024: 269

Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 742

A very bookish month because of Book Con, even if the stats would seem to belie that. Onwards to September and the rush of new books for the autumn!

Bonus picture: I said I went to Kiss Me Kate again… it’s definitely my favourite show of the summer so have another picture!

*includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – including this month!

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Books Incoming: Mid August edition

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I did Book Con last week, but here’s the other stuff that’s arrive in the last month, not including those ones. So we have two books from Persephone Books – on which more next week. The there is Film Stars at Riverlea which came from a friend, two books from the charity shops – The Fixer Upper and Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk. I said in my post when the new Lady Sherlock came out we would see how long it took for my preorder to turn up – and here is the answer: it arrived on August 8! Then we have Laurence Leamer’s book Hitchcock’s Blondes, which came down in price in hardback and a cozy crime that I got cheap second hand. All very nice.

Happy weekend everyone!

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July Stats

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Books read this month: 32*

New books: 25

Re-reads: 7 (all audiobooks)

Books from the to-read pile: 3

NetGalley books read: 5

Kindle Unlimited read: 16

Ebooks: 1

Audiobooks: 7

Non-fiction books: 1

Favourite book this month: Do Me a Favour

Most read author: Probably Patti Benning again, because I read a bunch at the start of the month, but Hugh Morrison coming up fast behind at the end of the month

Books bought: One book-book, two ebooks and a preorder

Books read in 2024: 240

Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 740

A pretty solid month in reading, although ending slower than it started. I was binging through one author at the start of the month, and moved on to mini-binges on a couple of others as we moved through. Not enough Netgalley reading done, which is all pretty standard stuff for me.

Bonus picture: Another picture from the Barbican Conservatory before Kiss Me Kate

*includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – including this month!

The pile

Books Incoming: Mid-July edition

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I think this might be a first. Hold on to your hats, something amazing has happened. No not quite that amazing, but it’s pretty good:

Only two books bought – and I read both of them on holiday so they have not added to the pile! I think this is a complete first. You can read my book of the week review of The Formula here. And the other of course is the third in Reverend Richard Coles’s Canon Clement series, which I included in my murder mysteries with vicars post.

Have an amazing Saturday everyone!

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June Stats

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Books read this month: 36*

New books: 31

Re-reads: 5 (all audiobooks)

Books from the to-read pile: 12

NetGalley books read: 3

Kindle Unlimited read: 12

Ebooks: 4

Audiobooks: 5

Non-fiction books: 3

Favourite book this month: The Comfort of Ghosts

Most read author: Patti Benning

Books bought: Three book-books, four ebooks and two pre-orders

Books read in 2024: 208

Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 736

A pretty solid month of reading all in all. Not as much from the NetGalley list as I should have done, but more from the to-read pile than some months so swings and roundabouts.

Bonus picture: Regents Park on a summer evening. Lovely stuff.

*includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – including 2 this month!

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May Stats

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Books read this month: 31*

New books: 22

Re-reads: 9 (all audiobooks)

Books from the to-read pile: 2

NetGalley books read: 3

Kindle Unlimited read: 14

Ebooks: 3

Audiobooks: 9

Non-fiction books: 0

Favourite book this month: really hard to pick between Mona of the Manor, You Should Be So Lucky and The Winner Bakes It All

Most read author: Margery Allingham because of the ebooks

Books bought: 5 books and 6 ebooks and one preorder

Books read in 2024: 171

Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 740

I’m going to call this the month of Kindle Unlimited, because it’s true really. I’ve read so much from there this month for various reasons, but it’s really justified its subscription price.

Bonus picture: another Lagos picture. Not that you can really tell!

*includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – including 8 this month!

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Now we are ten…

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I mean this is slightly late because it was early May that I started this endeavour, and this is the very last day of May, but it’s still May so it still counts. Anyway, it’s been a decade since I started this blog – can you believe it? I can’t for sure. Anyway, the to-read pile that I started this blog to try and guilt myself into reducing remains enormous, but I don’t think there is anything left on it that was still there at the start so that’s something.

It’s quite a small something because the pile has graduated from the little shelves and a stack hiding behind the sofa to a big (if narrow) Billy bookcase and another (little) stack in front of it, but the main thing is that I’ve had a blast writing about all the things I’ve read, and I’m still enjoying it as well. Thank you for reading – I’m off to have a small celebration.

Maybe I should buy a book to mark the occasion?