Hey Everyone! May is over, which means that it is time to give you a bit of an update on my reading progress! These past few months have been hard on me and incredibly hard on the world. Cal is doing well. He’s as hyper as ever and is acting like he didn’t have major surgery last month.
As you all know, I’ve been pretty quiet here. I truly appreciate you all staying here and reading my posts. I’m hoping that June will reinvigorate me, and I will start to be more active on my blog.
May Reading Stats
Totals:
- Books Read: 42
- Hours listened: 5 days, 9 hours & 1 minute
- Pages Read: 3984
- DNFs: 7
May Totals
- Books read: 6
- Hours listened: 0 days, 16 hours, and 11 minutes
- Pages Read: 727 (about 500 more than what I read last month!)
Averages
- Days per book: 3.55
- Pages read per day: 26.38
- Hours listened per day: 51 minutes and 16 seconds
- Books read per month: 8.40 (I’m surprised this only dropped by one book)
- DNF’d books per month: 1.4
Genres Read
- Art/Photography: 1
- Biography/Memoir: 1
- Business: 1
- Fantasy: 4
- Folklore/Fairytales: 2
- General Fiction: 3
- Graphic Novel: 6
- Humor: 1
- Picture Book: 2
- Play/Theater: 1
- Poetry: 1
- Romance/Erotica: 12
- Science/Nature: 1
- Science Fiction: 1
- Self-Help/Inspiration: 3
- Social Science/Current Affairs/Political: 1
- Travel/Food: 1
Most read genre is still Romance/Erotica!
Backlist vs. 2020 releases
- Backlist books: 23
- 2020 releases: 19
Fiction Vs. Nonfiction
- Fiction: 30
- Nonfiction: 12
Format Read
- Print: 7
- Digital: 15
- Audio: 20
Age Range
- Adult: 31
- YA: 6
- Middle Grade: 4
- Children’s: 1
Books Read in May:
Favorite book this month was Beach Read by Emily Henry.
I loved everything about this book. The writing was beautiful, the characters were excellent, and the chemistry was incredible!
- NLP 2.0 The Ultimate Guide to Neuro Linguistic Programming by Kyle Faber – 3 Caffeinated Stars
- Black Tangled Heart by Samantha Young – 4 Caffeinated Stars
- Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart – 3 1/2 Caffeinated Stars
- Dirty First Dates: The Museum by Harley LaRoux – 4 Caffeinated Stars
- Beach Read by Emily Henry – 5 Caffeinated Stars
- I Wrote This For You: 2007-2017 by Iain S. Thomas – 4 Caffeinated Stars
Did Not Finish (DNF’d):
DNF Stats
- Books I did not finish (DNF’d): 7
- Hours wasted: 13 hours and 37 minutes
- Unlistened to hours: 17 hours and 21 minutes
- DNF’d pages read: 269
- Unread Pages: 1307
- Days lost reading: 25
DNF Genres
- Fantasy: 2
- Romance/Erotica: 3
- Sci-Fi: 2
DNF’d Books:
- Celestina’s Burnings by Annemarie Schiavi Pedersen – I wasn’t the right reader.
Awesome reading month well done!!! A great variety of books. I’ve never heard of any of them before but I’m about to go research them!!! Xxx
I hope you find something you like!
I love that you list the hours wasted on DNFs. It really is infuriating, isn’t it? 😭 On the other hand, I like to think those hours at least provide me with fun ice breakers for my next date (“So, I read this really awful book the other day…”). Now that I think of it, I could use this as a test. If my date loved the book but is still willing to date me (and vice versa), I may have found my soulmate! 😄
HAHAHAHA, that would definitely be a way to see if they’re your soulmate!