Just waiting for a month that doesn’t feel like a complete disaster…
July goal:
I don’t have anything really started right now and July looks like another busy one, so I’m only committing to 3 books.
What I read:
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music—Dave Grohl
- Audiobook (8h 55m)
- 5* (July 7)
- Our Woman in Moscow—Beatriz Williams
- Kindle
- 4* (July 18)
- Greenlights—Matthew McConaughey
- Audiobook (5h 40m)
- 5* (July 28)
- Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders—Billy Jensen
- Audiobook (4h 54m)
- 4.5* (July 31)
Note: I quit linking titles to that big site that funds the rich dude and his space wars with other rich dudes. I’ve linked to Goodreads, but if you’re looking to support independent bookstores, my favorite local shop is Old Town Books (they ship!), and you can support my favorite podcast and a local shop of your choosing through their Bookshop.org link at KickBezosInTheBalls.org. And you can never go wrong with your local library!
2022 Progress
Star Ratings: Based on the flat stars Goodreads displays in list-view, not the quarter-star system I assign in my reviews.
- 5 stars: 9 books
- 4 stars: 15 books
- 3 stars: 5 books
- 2 stars: 3 books
- 1 star: 1 book
- 0 stars: 0 books
- Abandoned: 3 books
- Not rated: 0 books
Pages Read/Hours Listened: (does not include abandoned books, edited manuscripts, etc.)
- January – 2170, 20h 19m
- February – 1442, 27h 45m
- March – 2066, 20h 53m
- April – 1294, 7h 6m
- May – 1223, 7h 44m
- June – 1591, 5h 59m
- July – 1472, 19h 29m
Reading Goals:
1. Read 36 books – I finished 4 books toward my Goodreads Challenge. I’m 13 books ahead of my goal (92%).
2. Decrease my TBR –
- Jan 1: 64 physical / 22 Kindle
- Feb 1: 64/23
- Feb 28: 64/23
- Apr 1: 64/23
- Apr 30: 64/22
- Jun 1: 64/21
- Jun 30: 64/20
- Jul 31: 64/20
3. Read 12 not-novels –
- Jan: 1 development, 3 memoir, 1 nonfiction—and 4 audiobooks
- Feb: 2 memoir/audiobook
- Mar: 1 memoir + 2 other audiobooks
- Apr: 1 nonfiction audiobook
- May: 1 nonfiction, 1 memoir, both audiobooks
- June: 2 nonfiction, 1 memoir, both audiobooks
- July: 1 nonfiction, 2 memoir, all 3 audiobooks
4. Read 22 minutes per day – The streak is still alive. Counting my 2021 goal of reading 21 minutes per day, I’m on a 319-day streak.
July started out great, though busy, and then it ended poorly. I only read 1 physical book, but I spent a lot of time listening to audiobooks. I also abandoned an audiobook because I couldn’t stand the narrator’s voice (I’ll pick up the physical book at some point). I have a ton of great books from the library right now but also a heavy workload and some travel, so I’m only committing to 3 books for August.
