2017 Reading in Review
Jan. 1st, 2018 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryWell 2017 is over so I wanted to take a minute to look back on what I read during the year, and think about new goals.
I read 161 books including comics and novellas. I read 28 non-fiction books, 39 comics -- either trades or graphic novels, 23 novellas. My bookmark folder of 2017 fiction has 109 things in it -- plus I read a few things in print. (That's also not counting thing published before 2017 which I read last year.) I'll talk more about my short fiction reading and provide lots of recs in separate post I'm working on.
Highlights include rereading both The Memoirs of Lady Trent and The Queens Thief series, Gwenda Bond's Lois Lane books, The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui, and The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein.
ETA:Oldest book was Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Namoi Mitchison published in 1962 and newest book was Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts published Dec 12, 2017.
I had set myself two reading goals. I reached the 1st one which was read 24 books by new to me non-white authors. I had hoped that this goal would help me improve my percent of non-white authors over all and it did! In 2016 I read 16% non-white authors and this year I read 21.7% Still not where I want to be but nice to see improvement. I'm going to repeat this goal for 2018 since it was fun and helped me read more widely.
My other goal was to read 12 scholarly books-- defined as experts writing about their area of expertise. I had started the year with a goal of read 10 academic monographs but I wanted to include some books that didn't quite fit so I broadened the category but added two more books to the goal. In the end I read 11, which considering I had a major non-fiction reading slump in November and December wasn't too bad.
So for 2018 my reading goals are:
1)Read 24 books by new to me non-white authors
2)read 10 scholarly books
3)reread 20 books -- because I need to remember not to always rush after the new shinny things
4)read one book more than 100 years old
So what about you? How do you feel about what your read in 2017? Do you have any reading goals for 2018?
I read 161 books including comics and novellas. I read 28 non-fiction books, 39 comics -- either trades or graphic novels, 23 novellas. My bookmark folder of 2017 fiction has 109 things in it -- plus I read a few things in print. (That's also not counting thing published before 2017 which I read last year.) I'll talk more about my short fiction reading and provide lots of recs in separate post I'm working on.
Highlights include rereading both The Memoirs of Lady Trent and The Queens Thief series, Gwenda Bond's Lois Lane books, The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui, and The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein.
ETA:Oldest book was Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Namoi Mitchison published in 1962 and newest book was Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts published Dec 12, 2017.
I had set myself two reading goals. I reached the 1st one which was read 24 books by new to me non-white authors. I had hoped that this goal would help me improve my percent of non-white authors over all and it did! In 2016 I read 16% non-white authors and this year I read 21.7% Still not where I want to be but nice to see improvement. I'm going to repeat this goal for 2018 since it was fun and helped me read more widely.
My other goal was to read 12 scholarly books-- defined as experts writing about their area of expertise. I had started the year with a goal of read 10 academic monographs but I wanted to include some books that didn't quite fit so I broadened the category but added two more books to the goal. In the end I read 11, which considering I had a major non-fiction reading slump in November and December wasn't too bad.
So for 2018 my reading goals are:
1)Read 24 books by new to me non-white authors
2)read 10 scholarly books
3)reread 20 books -- because I need to remember not to always rush after the new shinny things
4)read one book more than 100 years old
So what about you? How do you feel about what your read in 2017? Do you have any reading goals for 2018?
