December 2020 WRAP-UP
I have read tons this month (the highest month, as for number of books), so for once, I’m posting before the end of the month.
Of course I will be reading some more today, but not enough to finish a book. And I’ll be spending most of my reading time actually working on my 2020 stats!
📚 So here is what I read in December.
Note, 7 different genres!
17 books:
11 in print
= with 2,396 pages, a daily average of 77 pages/day
6 in audio
= 44H29, a daily average of 1H26!
5 in literary fiction:
- La grande escapade, by Jean-Philippe Bondel – ebook for review
- A Very Russian Christmas – collection of classics Christmas tales, for The Classics Club
- The Letter Killers Club, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky – ebook for The Classics Club spin
- La Femme au carnet rouge, by Antoine Laurain – ebook with the French Books online book club
- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens – audio, for The Classics Club
4 in science-fiction:
- Flood, by Stephen Baxter
- Ready Player Two, by Ernest Cline – audio
- Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
- Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor
2 in children/YA:
- Silver Spoon #2, by Hiromu Arakawa – manga
- A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas – audio, for The Classics Club
2 in mystery:
- Atomka, by Franck Thilliez – French audiobook
- Three Act Tragedy, (Hercule Poirot) #11 by Agatha Christie – audio, for The Classics Club
2 in nonfiction:
- Upstream, by Mary Oliver – a collection of essays
- 1st and 2nd Books of the Maccabees – audio, for The Classics Club
1 in historical fiction:
- The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks
1 in poetry:
- A Thousand Mornings, by Mary Oliver
MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH
READING CHALLENGES & RECAP
Classics Club: 7/137 (from November 2020-until November 2025)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 9 books read during the challenge + 7 since.
Total of books read in 2020 = 123/110 (that’s 112%)
Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 23
OTHER BOOK I REVIEWED THIS PAST MONTH
None, though I have 3 in preparation
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Come back on Monday
to see the books I plan to read in January
How was YOUR month of December?
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