This year, despite returning to work after a lengthy furlough period, I managed to get through 80 books. It’s not a massive number compared to what I see elsewhere on the blogging world, but it’s big for me. I’m not a quick reader so was fairly happy to have got through what I managed. According to my half-yearly post I made back in June/July (here) I managed fifty books in the first half the year, which means, after going back to work, I managed thirty. That’s about average for when I’m back at work. Considering I was super-lazy and didn’t read much at all the past couple of months, that’s an improvement, I suppose?
In a slightly sad note, all of my five star reads were actually audio books. Not a single physical/e-book to be found in that category.
Please find below a wash of covers from books I’ve finished this year in rating order. On to 2022!
Total Pages Read: 5,212
Total Time Spent Listening: 240 hrs 40mins (10 days, 0hrs, 40mins)
Physical/E-Books:
4 Star:
3 Star:
2 Star:
Audio Books:
5 Star:
4 Star:
3 Star:
1 Star:
Swords & Spectres 
Thats quite the difference between Black Prism and Blinding Knife. Will you be continuing the series?
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There’s a part of me that wants to. But I fell out of love with reading after Blinding Knife. Might have just been burnout, but the book got the blame for it 😂 so I’m not certain
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That makes sense. I never got past book 1 😋
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I think all you’re missing is a half-decent story buried beneath padding and poor character work. So not much 😂
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Hahahaha
Dave finished the series last year so I gathered a bit about it from him. It definitely isn’t for me…
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You still feeling lazy? Or is 2022 going to be the year that you CRUSH your book numbers? RAWR!
Ok, maybe that’s a little too much 🙂
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We are understaffed at work, so my book numbers will probably end up being a tad less than they were last year 😦
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Worker shortage over there too, eh? Man, it’s everywhere!
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Yea, we made people redundant during the pandemic and it’s a chore to get more people in. More time spent not relaxing for me haha
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Great going on 80 Books mate. Never feel bad about your reading.
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I just kind of lost interest in reading after Blinding Knife. As did the person I read it with. Thankfully, my enthusiasm has come back 🙂
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Will you continue the series or are you done with weeks? It got a lot better for me nearing the end of book 3
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I’m undecided. If I do get back into it, it won’t be for a while.
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You are reading the physicals? Cause I can easily recommend the Audible read by some guy Vance he did an amazing job.
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Yea, reading the physicals. Simon Vance is one of my favourite narrators. I’m weird in that, if I read a book, I like to carry on with physicals. I have swapped a couple of times and it annoys me to do it.
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I’ll be here to see how it goes man you can be sure of that.
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You only listened for ten days?? What the heck did you do with the rest of your time? Eat, sleep? Ridiculous 😂
If you were to go back and read your five-star books written, do you think they’d be as good?
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That’s ten days of combined listening time … somewhere in the region of 40 audio books 😂
I don’t know, I’d like to think so. But sometimes a narrator really breathes life into a book in the way my reading can’t
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80 books is a lot of books!!
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