As a rule I tend to set myself a target of reading a book a week throughout the year. Last year, I smashed that by hitting one-hundred books over the course of the year so decided that a ‘half-yearly look at me’ style post was in order. This year, by June 30th I have managed to get to fifty books out of my targeted fifty-two (it would have been more but I just switched off and got super lazy as far as reading, listening and blogging in general went during June). So I decided to do another half-yearly one to spice up the doldrum of my feed (review, haul or wrap up … yes, I know, this is technically a wrap-up).
Please find below lots of pretty pictures based on my reading and listening for the year so far. Apologies if the pics aren’t lined up in a symmetrical order, but wordpress still haven’t managed to make the ‘group images’ feature work on the mobile app. So, in the interest of making my post readable (and non-seizure inducing) to all who click upon it, I have painstakingly added and (tried to) line up each picture individually. I either love you all enough to put the effort in or I’m bored and this is a wonderful way to kill some time. I won’t say which as my blog is typically a non-spoiler place 🙂
PS
Upon checking the ‘preview post’ function, I can confirm that wordpress is a liar. The images in my post (for the physical books) are in rows of three and the images for the audio books are in rows of two. WordPress is literally the poster child for ‘item may not be as pictured on the box’.
Total Pages Read: 10,521
Total Time Spent Listening: 262 hrs 26 mins (10 days, 22 hours, 26 minutes)
Physical/E-Books:
5 Star Reads:
4 Star Reads:
3 Star Reads:
2 Star Reads:
Audio Books Finished:
5 Star Listens:
4 Star Listens:
3 Star Listens:
2 Star Listens:
1 Star Listens:
You’re only two books behind. You’ll smash it out of the park especially considering some of the chunky books you’ve been reading.
I’ll try channeling some of my reading pace at you (i.e. don’t read the mountains of description so in depth)
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😂 I refuse to skim, but the channeling attempts are much appreciated. Hoping to get some reading done Friday onwards. This week has been nearly non-existent as far as pages read goes
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Well just think, now you can coast the rest of the year and still easily beat your goal 😀
and dont worry, you’re not the only one fed up with wp. I’m a paying customer and the “unfollow myself” issue is still happening to me. And they just admitted that it is happening to others as well. So chances are pretty good I’ll be un-dotcom’ing and going back to the free wordpress. Not going to pay for MORE problems 😦
I am jealous of how many 5star reads you had.
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Yea, my reading choices have been rather kind to me so far this year 🙂
Hopefully by going back to the free version, along with a ‘I refuse to pay because your service is lacking’ email might light a fire under them. Hopefully more people go down the un-paying route
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I’ll be making a decision in July about whether to cancel my dotcom or stick it out. Not feeling very charitable at the moment though.
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If you’re not getting what you pay for, then that charity could be better used elsewhere
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I’ve only read 3 books from your list. I’ve read both King books and The Christmas Carol. You are doing great with your reading. I need to do a check in post but I keep putting it off.
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I almost didn’t get around to doing one myself. Just had a couple hours to burn. My blogging has fallen by the wayside recently. Been so busy ☹
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I’ve finally got one of my mid year posts up but I have to do a few others still.
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You’ve read some great books in 2021, and it’s a pleasure to see the gallery of covers, but it is a blasphemy to rate Hobbit so low, I cannot use any other word here 😉
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I fully expected that comment from more than just one person … I just felt everything from storytelling to grammar was sub par 🙈 although, as a story to read to my niece, it’s certainly something I could have some fun with
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Just stop 😛
Although I also like reading Hobbit to my nieces 😉
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