Friday, September 06, 2024

The Books I Read - August 2024

I didn't read much in August, which was again party due to watching a lot of Critical Role and partly I just wasn't in the right mood. Anna Lee Huber's Lady Darcy books are a good balance of Scottish murder mystery and romance and I found a Grave Matter really fun. Petty Treasons was a lot of fun and the fact that it starts in second person more or less makes sense and works.

I added a bunch of books to Libby and my Kobo, Libro.fm and Owls nest wish lists so I think I'll be back to my usual reading speed as summer ends.


Stats for August - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 5 (85)Pages Read - 1520 (28110)

Collage grid of the covers of the 5 books listed above.August 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 5 (42)

Author - books read - pages read

Adrian Tchaikovsky (1 - 592) Amanda Cross (1 - 186)
Andrea Penrose (6 - 2,096) Andy Weir (1 - 481)
Ann Leckie (1 - 397) Anna Lee Huber - 1 - 432 (2 - 816)
Ben H. Winters (1 - 322) Bowles, Burns, Hixson, Jenness, Tellers (1 - 288)
Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (1 - 293) Carola Dunn (8 - 1,969)
Charles Todd (1 - 352) CLAMP (4 - 1,934)
Daniel O'Malley (1 - 688) Deanna Raybourn (3 - 996)
Dennis Duncan (1 - 339) Dorothy L. Sayers (1 - 132)
Elly Griffiths - 1 - 350 (12 - 4,359) Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas (1 - 258)
Heather Fawcett (1 - 320) Ian Rankin (1 - 241)
Ilona Andrews (2 - 668) Jacqueline Winspear (1 - 352)
James Ogilvy (1 - 201) Katherine Addison (1 - 448)
Katherine May (1 - 212) Katie Mack (1 - 237)
Louise Penny - 1 - 376 (4 - 1,418) Martha Wells (5 - 1,992)
Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841) Milan Kundera (1 - 314)
Nicholas Eames (1 - 464) Oliver Burkeman (1 - 290)
R. Brian Stanfield (1 - 242) Sherry Thomas (1 - 364)
Shonda Rhimes (1 - 337) Suzette Mayr (1 - 224)
T. Kingfisher (1 - 114) Tomohito Oda (1 - 192)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (1 - 227) Vernor Vinge (1 - 555)
Victoria Goddard - 1 - 110 (1 - 110) Yoshiki Tanaka - 1 - 252 (5 - 1249)

Word cloud of the authors I read in August, based on the number of words read. Anna Lee Huber is largest and at the top, then Elly Griffiths below and a little smaller then Louise Penny about the same size. Yoshiki Tanaka is off to the left and quite a bit smaller and Victoria Goddard is smallest and tucked in to the bottom right.August 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Decade

1920s - (1) 1960s - (1)
1980s - 1 (7) 1990s - (11)
2000s - 1 (4) 2010s - 1 (37)
2020s - 2 (24)

Source

Audible - (4) Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (3) Kobo - 2 (21)
Libby - 3 (44) Libro fm - (6)
My Library - (1) Shared - (5)

Formats

Audio Book - 1 (37) Blog Post - (1)
eBook - 4 (38) eBook Comic - (5)
Hardcover - (2) Paperback - (2)

The Books I Read - November 2024

November was a bit weird. The Hands of the Emperor is long, but excedingly good. I'm continuing to find Anna Lee Huber a very engagin...