Tuesday, 1 January 2019

2018 Reading Reflections



Was #theunreadshelfproject2018 successful for me? I mean, I started out with 233 unread books in my house, read 100 books, and ended up with 247 unread books in my house sooo 🙈. On the surface it looks like a hard no, but I still think it was.



A few things happened in my reading life this year:

1. I completed every single challenge put out by @theunreadshelf.

2. I reread three different book series in anticipation of their 2018 new releases.

3. I joined a new in real life book club.

4. I developed both stronger and new relationships with publishers and authors. (Perhaps too strong given the increase in my unread shelf number.)

5. I purged my books hard. Dozens of unread books were either deleted from my Kobo or dropped into our local little free library.

6. I became much more thoughtful about the books I buy and add to our permanent home library.


Overall, I'm happy with how things went with my reading in 2018. I don't plan to reread nearly as much in 2019 (or even at all), so I expect to make a much larger dent into my unread shelf. I'll be sharing more about my 2019 reading goals soon!

Here are a few other book stats I tracked. In brackets are my 2017 numbers to compare.

29 were published in 2018 (31)
21 were ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  reads for me (26)
12 were rereads (4)
12 were nonfiction (17)
3 were novellas (+ 1 book collection of novellas) (same last year!)
92 were by female authors (88)
7 were by authors of colour (I didn't track this last year)
10 were by Canadian authors (9)
1 Seb and I read together (2)
1 book in French (0)

xo
Jenn

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