A MONTH OF FAVORITES
#amonthoffaves
All December-long,
Estella’s Revenge, Girlxoxo, and Traveling with T
will be sharing our fave bookish
(and sometimes non-bookish)
experiences from throughout the year
AND we want YOU to join us!
Dec 10 is for
A Year in Books Timeline {Which month did you … read the most, the least, read the book you liked LEAST for the year, read your longest book, tried a new genre, fell hard for a book boyfriend, re-read a favorite, finished an epic series, read something you’ve been wanting to read for a long time etc. } – link-up hosted at Girlxoxo
JANUARY= when I read the most nonfiction books = 4
FEBRUARY= when I read the most literary fiction books= 5
MARCH= when I FINALLY read a book by Amélie Nothomb – Hygiène de l’assassin
APRIL= when I re-read (first it was in French, now in English) Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses, by Larchet
MAY= when I discovered Pierre Lemaitre, with Au revoir là-haut
JUNE= when I read the least, only 4 books!
JULY= when I read the most books = 11 (10 in print + 1 in audio)
AUGUST= when I sadly finished the whole series of Mrs Pollifax, by Dorothy Gilman
Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1966) audio
Dorothy Gilman, The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (1985) audio
Dorothy Gilman, The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax – audio
Dorothy Gilman, A Palm For Mrs. Pollifax (1973) audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (1992) audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station – audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha – audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (1988) audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax And The Whirling Dervish (1990) audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief – audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax Pursued – audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax and The Lion Killer – audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist (1997) audio
Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled – audio
SEPTEMBER= when I read the most = 3,007 pages, that is, 100/day
OCTOBER= when I listened the most to audiobooks= 24.41 hours, that is 47 mn/day
NOVEMBER= when I read for the first time 2 heavy crime fiction novels, especially the amazing Irène by Pierre Lemaitre (just officially released yesterday, by the way!)
DECEMBER= the first time I plan to read 3 Christmas related mysteries in December
WHAT WAS SPECTACULAR
IN YOUR YEAR OF READING?
Words And Peace 
Love Mrs Pollifax!
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she is so great. did you listen to the series? Barbara Rosenblat is an awesome narrator, for me she really has Emily’s voice!
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I’ve never enjoyed audio books, every so often I try one, but they just don’t work for me.
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thanks Martha, it does not seem to be where it was announced for each day
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You read more non-fiction in January than I did all year. Yikes! More non-fiction definitely needs to make my goals for next year.
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there were some really great ones, I enjoyed so much The Innovators by Isaacson on the history of computers and the digital world. fascinating, and even the audio was awesome
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I think I only read about 2 non-fiction books total this year. Kinda sad, really.
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if you feel bad about it, you could schedule your coming year by genre, like read at least 1 nonfiction every month or every other month? Sometimes I do this for the numerous book challenges I do
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Oh, I like the way you organized this!
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thanks. I also just followed the idea, would have liked to be more creative, but really didn’t have time for it
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FYI Tanya a has set up a MrLinkey for today’s posts at http://travelingwitht.wordpress.com/
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thanks
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I love how you broke this up! It’s fun to see how the season affected not only your numbers but what you were reading. I had forgotten about the Mrs. Polifax series but you have me wanting to revisit it!
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and I suggest you listen to it, the narrator is awesome, the same for all the books
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I LOVE how you broke the pages down and audio hours listened to pages per day and minutes listened!!!!!!
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yeah, stat crazy, I do this for my monthly recap and then for yearly recap, to come in January
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Ahhh! I need to get stat crazy!
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warning the easiest is to add the info after you finish each book, otherwise that’s plain insane lol
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Do you have a stat sheet? Just keep notes in a notebook? I need something easy so I will do it!
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I use a google sheet. Under Reading Challenges: https://wordsandpeace.com/2014/01/05/2014-reading-challenges/, I give the public links to both my reading yearly recap, where I had a book each time I finish one, with number of pages, genre, format, etc. So for instance when I read my 1st HF I put 1 in that column, and when I read another one, I put 2 in that column, so that I always know how many of each genre etc I have read, without having to do mega additions at the end of the year. the color code is given on the very 1st line of the chart. just added book 99 yesterday night. you can see it here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqZIzZFqfnNxdDRCM1E0d1RhdVphTkdYbHNRN2M4TVE&usp=sharing#gid=0.
And I have a similar sheet for my reading challenges: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqZIzZFqfnNxdHFoZ3JJaUQ2VUoyVWlJQThyMTc5WUE&usp=sharing#gid=0
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It seems like you had an amazing reading year. So many books and audiobooks! So cool! I also liked the idea of Christmas mysteries. That sounds like a fun time.
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lots of readers do something special in December, it was time I joined!
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Thanks for sharing the look back at your year!
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thanks for visiting and hosting the whole event, neat
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I’m glad to know of Pierre Lemaitre, someone whose work I’ll look for in my translated literature wanderings. xo
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so both historical fiction and crime fiction, with warning, awesome AND horrific: https://wordsandpeace.com/2014/12/04/book-review-irene-i-love-france-124/
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