For each user, Goodreads just published their “My Year in Books” post.
please click on the logo to read mine.

I never understand why they do this so early: yes, I will not reach my 100 books goal, but I should be able to read 10 more before the end of the year.

Three books that stand out:

Killing Commendatore
is highlighted as the longest book I read this year. And I enjoyed each of its 688 pages.

Love and Invention
is listed as the Highest rated on Goodreads: 4.86! Congrats to Benjamin Constable

I Let You Go
is the most popular of my 2018 reads: 96,330 other people read it as well.
I gave it 4 stars, but didn’t take time to review it!

At the beginning of 2019, I will be publishing my detailed statistics for 2018.

ANY SURPRISE IN YOUR YEAR IN BOOKS?

March-April 2018 wrap-up

Sometimes, life goes too fast…
Reading time is getting scarce these days, and let’s not talk about blogging time…

So here are the few books I read these past 2 months:

11 books:
8 in print
= with 2,230 pages, an average of 36 pages/day
3 in audio
= with 34H36, an average of 33mn/day

So more audio time than usual, but about half less reading time!

7 in mystery

Look For Her, by Emily Winslow – for review
Temps glaciaires, by Fred Vargas – audio in French
I Let You Go, by Clare Mackintosh
Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime story, by Anne Meredith – ebook, for review
Nymphéas noirs, by Michel Bussi – audio in French
Gallic Noir, vol 1, by Pascal Garnier – for review
Debout les morts, by Fred Vargas – audio in French

2 in “graphic novels”:

Baby Monkey, Private Eye, by Brian Selznick = actually a picture book
Monet, Itinerant of Light, by Salva Rubio (and EFA) = actually a biography

1 in literary fiction:

The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric – for Classic Club

1 in science-fiction/dystopia/fantasy:

Ankaran Immersion, by Will Weisser

My favorites in March-April

Blog recap for March-April

I did manage to post a short video where I read a poem both in French and English, for National Poetry Month. Thanks to the Book Cougars for inviting me! See details about them under my youtube video
I hosted 4 spotlights with giveaway – be sure you enter the May book of the month giveaway at France Book Tours
I participated in a few memes, which I had not done for a while: Top 10 Tuesday, WWW Wednesdays, Mailbox Monday, and a more recent for me: Six Degrees of Separation