July, and dare I venture a guess at August as well, are going to be low points in my reading this year. I already hit my personal goal of fifty-two books (currently at fifty-seven), so anything else is just a bonus. With work being a lot busier now (I work in the live events industry and everyone in the UK that wasn’t able to put events on now seems to want to), I find myself getting home at night and having energy enough to read anywhere in between five and ten pages. With such lofty numbers, my reading will be a bit meh. I just need to get used to actually having to work long, physical days again and I’m sure I’ll be able to manage fifteen pages every now and then! More time at work means more audio books, at least.
I’ve barely been able to log in to read other folks’ posts. But, I’m hoping to get back into the swing of that as well. Bookstooge, I shall log in as often as I can to keep cheering you on against your niece in the battle of the belly 😉
Books Finished: 3
Total Pages Read: 1,393
Audio Books Finished: 3
Total Time Spent Listening: 28hrs 16mins
Average Rating: 3.6 out of 5
Non-Review Posts: 1
Physical/E-Books Finished:
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Audio Books Finished:
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Swords & Spectres 
Goodluck mate. It was quite adjustment to get used to working again for me too and i feel you with regards to reading after a long day. Ten pages is still a lot by my standards… Events have been cancelled here by us as people were idiots and our numbers spiked in july. Lucky i got my second shot in yesterday
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Getting my second shot on Friday the 13th of August. Our cases have spiked, too. But deaths haven’t, so our government seems happy to let people get sick 😦
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Thanks for the support, Swords. The biggest battle of my life 😉
Hope you get back into a routine quickly…..
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Audible is at least keeping me afloat as far as finishing titles goes. That’s the one saving grace about my job. Can normally get a solid 4-5 hours of audio or podcasts listened to
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That is great that your job can allow that. How do you do with retention though? I stopped audio because I simply couldn’t retain stuff….
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Retention is fine for me. I’d say it’s as good as when I’m reading. My attention span for watching stuff is dreadful, so I think that’s the trade-off 😂
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I attempted to read The Black Prism but ended up DNFing it a couple years ago. How did you like it?
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I enjoyed it for the most part. Gave it a 4. I felt some of the characters had zero idea what they wanted to do and, for the majority, the female characters needed some work in order to make them feel more real.
What made you put it down?
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I just wasn’t into it. I think it was to high fantasy for me I was a little confused lol.
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The magic system certainly tried very hard to be very confusing
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Yeah that’s what I was confused about.
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