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 engaging mystery writer, for both of her series. This is How You Lose the Time War was quite interesting to reread, I enjoy the epistilary nature and the co-authors passing back and forth. I think because of the nature of how they made it, it could some times be a little more tightly constructed, but the writing alone is worth reading.

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Stats for November - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 4 (99)

Pages Read - 1865 (33190)

The Books

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard	As Death Draws Near by Anna Lee Huber
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone	Penny for Your Secrets by Anna Lee Huber

November 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 3 (47)

Author - books read - pages read

Adrian Tchaikovsky (1 - 592)	Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone - 1 - 209 (1 - 209)
Amanda Cross (1 - 186)	Andrea Penrose (6 - 2,096)
Andy Weir (1 - 481)	Ann Leckie (1 - 397)
Anna Lee Huber - 2 - 687 (7 - 2,483)	Ben H. Winters (1 - 322)
Bowles, Burns, Hixson, Jenness, Tellers (1 - 288)	Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (1 - 293)
Carola Dunn (9 - 2,230)	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 (12 - 4,359)
Garth Nix (1 - 408)	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 (4 - 1,418)	Margery Allingham (1 - 208)
Martha Wells (6 - 2,240)	Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841)
Milan Kundera (1 - 314)	Nicholas Eames (1 - 464)
Oliver Burkeman (1 - 290)	R. Brian Stanfield (1 - 242)
R.F. Kuang (1 - 560)	Roger Zelazny (1 - 290)
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 - 969 (2 - 1079)
Yoshiki Tanaka (6 - 1509)

November 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Decade

1920s - (2)	1960s - (1)
1980s - (8)	1990s - (12)
2000s - (5)	2010s - 4 (45)
2020s - (26)

Source

Audible - (4)	Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (3)	Kobo - 1 (24)
Libby - 2 (50)	Libro fm - 1 (10)
My Library - (1)	Shared - (6)

Formats

Audio Book - 2 (44)	Blog Post - (1)
eBook - 2 (45)	eBook Comic - (5)
Hardcover - (2)	Paperback - (2)

The Books I Read - October 2024

Fairly quiet month. My partner and I spent a while reading through A Night in the Lonesome October and at about a chapter each day, it was a lot of fun. Babel was interesting and worth the time, but it's not a comfortable read.

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Stats for August - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 5 (95)

Pages Read - 1784 (31325)

The Books

Treacherous Is the Night by Anna Lee Huber	Sunset by Yoshiki Tanaka
Babel by R.F. Kuang	A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
A Study in Death by Anna Lee Huber

October 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 4 (46)

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 - 2 - 674 (5 - 1,796)
Ben H. Winters (1 - 322)	Bowles, Burns, Hixson, Jenness, Tellers (1 - 288)
Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (1 - 293)	Carola Dunn (9 - 2,230)
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 (12 - 4,359)	Garth Nix (1 - 408)
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 (4 - 1,418)
Margery Allingham (1 - 208)	Martha Wells (6 - 2,240)
Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841)	Milan Kundera (1 - 314)
Nicholas Eames (1 - 464)	Oliver Burkeman (1 - 290)
R. Brian Stanfield (1 - 242)	R.F. Kuang - 1 - 560 (1 - 560)
Roger Zelazny - 1 - 290 (1 - 290)	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)	Yoshiki Tanaka - 1 - 260 (6 - 1509)

October 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Decade

1920s - (2)	1960s - (1)
1980s - 1 (8)	1990s - 1 (12)
2000s - (5)	2010s - 2 (41)
2020s - 1 (26)

Source

Audible - (4)	Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (3)	Kobo - 1 (23)
Libby - 2 (48)	Libro fm - 1 (9)
My Library - (1)	Shared - 1 (6)

Formats

Audio Book - 3 (42)	Blog Post - (1)
eBook - 2 (43)	eBook Comic - (5)
Hardcover - (2)	Paperback - (2)

The Books I Read - September 2024

Again, Critical Role cut down on a lot of my reading, especial audio books. The three books set in the inter-war period were interesting counter points and I have to say that Anna Lee Huber writes in a style I really enjoy. Garth Nix's Left-Handed book sellers was a lot of fun, a little more elegance in crafting the front half, but a good action novel in the second. As always Martha Wells' Murderbot is outstanding.

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Stats for August - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 5 (90)

Pages Read - 1431 (29541)

The Books

The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham	To Davy Jones Below by Carola Dunn
This Side of Murder by Anna Lee Huber	The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
System Collapse by Martha Wells

September 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 - 306 (3 - 1,122)
Ben H. Winters (1 - 322)	Bowles, Burns, Hixson, Jenness, Tellers (1 - 288)
Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (1 - 293)	Carola Dunn - 1 - 261 (9 - 2,230)
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 (12 - 4,359)	Garth Nix - 1 - 408 (1 - 408)
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 (4 - 1,418)
Margery Allingham - 1 - 208 (1 - 208)	Martha Wells - 1 - 248 (6 - 2,240)
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)	Yoshiki Tanaka (5 - 1249)

September 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Decade

1920s - 1 (2)	1960s - (1)
1980s - (7)	1990s - (11)
2000s - 1 (5)	2010s - 2 (39)
2020s - 1 (25)

Source

Audible - (4)	Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (3)	Kobo - 1 (22)
Libby - 2 (46)	Libro fm - 2 (8)
My Library - (1)	Shared - (5)

Formats

Audio Book - 2 (39)	Blog Post - (1)
eBook - 3 (41)	eBook Comic - (5)
Hardcover - (2)	Paperback - (2)

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.

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Stats for August - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 5 (85)

Pages Read - 1520 (28110)

The Books

The Last Word by Elly Griffiths	The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
Upheaval by Yoshiki Tanaka	A Grave Matter by Anna Lee Huber
Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard

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)

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 - July 2024

I'm late updating things for July, so I don't know that I have a lot to add. I did start watching through Critical Role, (from the very begining) and that's cut down on my Audio book listening quite a bit. I ended up picking up a lot of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes books since they were kind of easy to pick up and put down. In case you're interested, they're written -- or translated -- very dryly and I find it's very helpful to read them in the voice of Dan Carlin.

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Stats for July - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 9 (80)

Pages Read - 2849 (26590)

The Books

Flight by Yoshiki Tanaka	The Edge of Worlds by Martha Wells
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan	The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May	Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Living Without a Goal by James Ogilvy	Tempest by Yoshiki Tanaka
Desolation by Yoshiki Tanaka

July 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 6 (41)

Author - books read - pages read

Adrian Tchaikovsky (1 - 592)	Amanda Cross (1 - 186)
Andrea Penrose (6 - 2,096)	Andy Weir - 1 - 481 (1 - 481)
Ann Leckie (1 - 397)	Anna Lee Huber (1 - 384)
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 (1 - 339)	Dorothy L. Sayers (1 - 132)
Elly Griffiths (11 - 4,009)	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 (1 - 201)	Katherine Addison (1 - 448)
Katherine May - 1 - 212 (1 - 212)	Katie Mack (1 - 237)
Louise Penny (3 - 1,042)	Martha Wells - 2 - 891 (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)
Yoshiki Tanaka - 3 - 725 (4 - 997)

July 2024 Author Cloud

The Books I Read - June 2024

I've really started to enjoy the "Books of Raksura", it's nice to discover that there are a fourth and fifth.

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Stats for June - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 10 (71)

Pages Read - 3213 (23741)

The Books Read

The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells	Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace edited by R. Brian Stanfield	The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera	A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie	The Siren Depths by Martha Wells
Murder at the Serpentine Bridge by Andrea Penrose	Mobilization by Yoshiki Tanaka

June 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 9 (32)

Author - books read - pages read

Adrian Tchaikovsky (1 - 592)	Amanda Cross (1 - 186)
Andrea Penrose - 1 - 304 (6 - 2,096)	Ann Leckie - 1 - 397 (1 - 397)
Anna Lee Huber (1 - 384)	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)	Dorothy L. Sayers (1 - 132)
Elly Griffiths - 1 - 374 (11 - 4,009)	Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas (1 - 258)
Heather Fawcett - 1 - 320 (1 - 320)	Ian Rankin (1 - 241)
Ilona Andrews (2 - 668)	Jacqueline Winspear (1 - 352)
Katherine Addison (1 - 448)	Katie Mack (1 - 237)
Louise Penny - 1 - 313 (3 - 1,042)	Martha Wells - 2 - 677 (3 - 1,101)
Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841)	Milan Kundera - 1 - 314 (1 - 314)
Nicholas Eames (1 - 464)	Oliver Burkeman (1 - 290)
R. Brian Stanfield - 1 - 242 (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)
Yoshiki Tanaka - 1 - 272 (1 - 272)

June 2024 Author Cloud

1920s - (1)	1960s - (1)
1980s - 2 (3)	1990s - 1 (10)
2000s - 1 (3)	2010s - 3 (34)
2020s - 3 (19)

Source

Audible - 1 (4)	Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - 1 (2)	Kobo - 3 (14)
Libby - 5 (40)	Libro fm - (6)
My Library - (1)	Shared - (3)

Formats

Audio Book - 4 (34)	Blog Post - (1)
eBook - 5 (28)	eBook Comic - (5)
Hardcover - (2)	Paperback - 1 (1)

The Books I Read - May 2024

May felt like a lot of different months and it feels like ages since I started reading Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrimple books or since I was reading Kings of the Wyld. The Daisy mysteries are fun and the supporting cast really sells them for me. They do seem a little draggy in overall plot. Kings of the Wyld was interesting and felt like it was playing with a lot of the 70s and 80s fantasy tropes.

I also wrote up a thing on the tools I'm using to generate the tables in the post. I'm making some progress on updating games the same way, I'd hope to have that ready by now, but it shouldn't be before long.

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Stats for May - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 15 (61)

Pages Read - 4064 (20528)

The Books Read

Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn	Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn
Damsel in Distress by Carola Dunn	Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Komi Can't Communicate, Volume 28 by Tomohito Oda	Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi	Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Murder at Queen's Landing by Andrea Penrose	Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Dead in the Water by Carola Dunn	Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens by Andrea Penrose
Styx and Stones by Carola Dunn	Rattle His Bones by Carola Dunn
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth by Bowles, Burns, Hixson, Jenness, Tellers

May 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 9 (32)

Author - books read - pages read

Adrian Tchaikovsky (1 - 592)	Amanda Cross (1 - 186)
Andrea Penrose - 2 - 666 (5 - 1,792)	Anna Lee Huber (1 - 384)
Ben H. Winters (1 - 322)	Bowles, Burns, Hixson, Jenness, Tellers - 1 - 288 (1 - 288)
Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (1 - 293)	Carola Dunn - 6 - 1486 (8 - 1,969)
Charles Todd (1 - 352)	CLAMP (4 - 1,934)
Daniel O'Malley (1 - 688)	Deanna Raybourn (3 - 996)
Dorothy L. Sayers (1 - 132)	Elly Griffiths (10 - 3,635)
Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas (1 - 258)	Ian Rankin (1 - 241)
Ilona Andrews (2 - 668)	Jacqueline Winspear (1 - 352)
Katherine Addison (1 - 448)	Katie Mack (1 - 237)
Louise Penny (2 - 729)	Martha Wells (1 - 424)
Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841)	Nicholas Eames - 1 - 464 (1 - 464)
Oliver Burkeman - 1 - 290 (1 - 290)	Sherry Thomas (1 - 364)
Shonda Rhimes - 1 - 337 (1 - 337)	Suzette Mayr (1 - 224)
T. Kingfisher - 1 - 114 (1 - 114)	Tomohito Oda - 1 - 192 (1 - 192)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi - 1 - 227 (1 - 227)	Vernor Vinge (1 - 555)

May 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Range

1920s - (1)	1960s - (1)
1980s - (1)	1990s - 6 (9)
2000s - (2)	2010s - 4 (31)
2020s - 5 (16)

Source

Audible - (3)	Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (1)	Kobo - 1 (11)
Libby - 10 (35)	My libro.fm Library - 2 (6)
My Library - (1)	Shared With Friend - 2 (3)

Formats

Audio Book - 12 (30)	Blog Post - (1)
eBook - 2 (23)	eBook Comic - 1 (5)
Hardcover - (2)

The Books I Read - April 2024

So I did find a way to automate a lot of the table generation for the post. I'm testing it out now, but it seems to be working. I'll write more about that later, but for now, I've slightly automated my hand made HTML process. It seems to have made the process a little smoother and catches most of the things I mess up when I write these out.

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Stats for April - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 10 (46)

Pages Read - 3723 (16464)

The Books Read

The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths	Gate 7, Volume 1 by CLAMP
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny	The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths	The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn	Tsubasa Omnibus 4 by CLAMP
The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn	Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky

April 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 6 (25)

Author - books read - pages read

Adrian Tchaikovsky - 1 - 592 (1 - 592)	Amanda Cross (1 - 186)
Andrea Penrose (3 - 1126)	Anna Lee Huber (1 - 384)
Ben H. Winters (1 - 322)	Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (1 - 293)
Carola Dunn - 2 - 483 (2 - 483)	Charles Todd (1 - 352)
CLAMP - 2 - 746 (4 - 1934)	Daniel O'Malley (1 - 688)
Deanna Raybourn (3 - 996)	Dorothy L. Sayers (1 - 132)
Elly Griffiths - 2 - 725 (10 - 3635)	Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas (1 - 258)
Ian Rankin (1 - 241)	Ilona Andrews (2 - 668)
Jacqueline Winspear (1 - 352)	Katherine Addison - 1 - 448 (1 - 448)
Katie Mack (1 - 237)	Louise Penny - 2 - 729 (2 - 729)
Martha Wells (1 - 424)	Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841)
Sherry Thomas (1 - 364)	Suzette Mayr (1 - 224)
Vernor Vinge (1 - 555)

April 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Range

1920s - (1)	1960s - (1)
1980s - (1)	1990s - 2 (3)
2000s - 2 (2)	2010s - 4 (27)
2020s - 2 (11)

Source

Audible - (3)	Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (1)	Kobo - 5 (10)
Public Library - 4 (25)	My libro.fm Library - 1 (4)
My Library - (1)	Shared With Friend - (1)

Formats

Audio Book - 4 (18)	Blog Post - (1)
eBook - 4 (21)	eBook Comic - 2 (4)
Hardcover - (2)

The Books I Read - March 2024

Pretty happy with how my reading tracking is going. My spreadsheet has all the data so it's very quick to generate the page, although from some thoughts I've had about game tracking I think I may be able to automate a bunch of this, since generating HTML by hand is not a way to live.

Update: Finished one more book in March, so snuck it into the post..

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Stats for March - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 12 (36)

Pages Read - 4206 (12741)

The Books Read

In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross	Murder at Kensington Palace by Andrea Penrose
Tsubasa Omnibus Volume 2 by CLAMP	A Fine Summer's Dayy by Charles Todd
A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn	Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Tsubasa Omnibus Volume 3 by CLAMP	Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
Mortal Arts by Anna Lee Huber	The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas	An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn

March 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 10 (21)

Author - books read - pages read

Amanda Cross - 1 - 186 (1 - 186)	Andrea Penrose - 1 - 387 (3 - 1126)
Anna Lee Huber - 1 - 384 (1 - 384)	Ben H. Winters - 1 - 322 (1 - 322)
Charles Todd - 1 - 352 (1 - 352)	CLAMP - 2 - 1188 (2- 1188)
Daniel O'Malley - (1 - 688)	Deanna Raybourn - 2 - 650 (3 - 996)
Dorothy L. Sayers - 1 - 132 (1 - 132)	Elly Griffiths - (8 - 2910)
Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas - 1 - 258 (1 - 258)	Ian Rankin - 1 -241 (1 - 241)
Ilona Andrews - (2 - 668)	Jacqueline Winspear - (1 - 352)
Katie Mack - (1 - 237)	Martha Wells (1 - 424)
Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841)	Brown, Roediger, McDaniel (1 - 293)
Sherry Thomas - 1 - 364 (1 - 364)	Suzette Mayr - (1 - 224)
Vernor Vinge - (1 - 555)

March 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Range

Earliest Book - 1923 (1932)

Most Recent Book - 2023 (2023)

Publications by Decades

2020s - 2 (9)	2010s - 7 (23)
1990s - (1)	1980s - 1 (1)
1960 - 1 (1)	1920s - 1 (1)

Source

Borrowed From Public Library - 6 (21)	Shared with Friends - (1)
My libro.fm Library - 2 (3)	My Physical Library - (1)
Audible - (3)	Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (1)	My Kobo Library - 4 (5)

Formats

Audio Book - 5 (14)	eBook - 5 (17)
eBook (Comic) - 2 (2)	Blog Post - (1)
Hardcover - (1)

The Books I Read - February 2024

I've made a few more slight adjustments to my infographic for February and cleaned up a few things that seemed to sneak over from last year. It's still a bit manual, but I have a spreadsheet doing my math now and so I only had to copy stuff and make the updated entries bold. One other change I'm making from last year is that I'm handling multiple authors as a single unit, so you'll see Brown, Roediger, McDaniel as a single unit and if I were to read a hypothetical Brown and Roediger book, they'd be listed as another entry.

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Stats for February - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 12 (24)

Pages Read - 3793 (8535)

The Books Read

Secret Life of the City: How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild by Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas	An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal	The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews	The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
We Interrupt This Broadcast by Mary Robinette Kowal	Murder at Half Moon Gate by Andrea Penrose
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths	Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr	Witch King by Martha Wells

February 2024 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 9 (13)

Author - books read - pages read

Andrea Penrose - 1 - 369 (2 - 739)	Daniel O'Malley - (1 - 688)
Deanna Raybourn - 1 - 346 (1 - 346)	Elly Griffiths - 2 - 703 (8 - 2910)
Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas - 1 - 258 (1 - 258)	Ilona Andrews - 1 - 335 (2 - 668)
Jacqueline Winspear - (1 - 352)	Katie Mack - (1 - 237)
Martha Wells - 1 - 424 (1 - 424)	Mary Robinette Kowal - 3 - 841 (3 - 841)
Brown, Roediger, McDaniel - 1 - 293 (1 - 293)	Suzette Mayr - 1 - 224 (1 - 224)
Vernor Vinge - (1 - 555)

February 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Range

Earliest Book - 2013 (1999)

Most Recent Book - 2023 (2023)

Publications by Decades

2020s - 5 (7)	2010s - 7 (16)
1990s - (1)

Source

Borrowed From Public Library - 5 (15)	Shared with Friends - 1
My libro.fm Library - 1	My Physical Library - 1 (1)
Audible - 3 (3)	Author's Website - 1 (1)
Borrowed From Friend - 1 (1)	My Kobo Library - 1 (1)

Formats

Audio Book - 4 (9)	eBook - 5 (12)
Blog Post - 1 (1)	Hardcover - 1 (1)

The Books I Read - January 2024

I enjoyed making the infographic style reading updates in 2023 and I'm continuing on in 2024. I've automated a couple of things in my tracking process, so I'm going to update a little bit about how I track and organize these this year.

One thing I'm adding is a count of "pages". I'm trying to keep them kind of even between books so I'm taking the "Kindle Edition" page count for each book. (Although my brain does not like the fact that Daniel O'Malley's Blitz is *longer* than Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky"). I'm using the page count for the weights for the Author infographic, but I'm not sure that does a great job of balancing all the authors. Katie Mack seems at a huge disadvantage.

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Stats for January

Reading Stats

Books Read - 12

Pages Read - 4742

The Books Read

The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths	The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths	Blitz by Daniel O'Malley
The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths	Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths	The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews	The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths	A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

January 2024 Covers

Authors - 12 (50)

Author - books read - pages read

Andrea Penrose - 1 - 370	Daniel O'Malley - 1 - 688
Elly Griffiths - 6 - 2207	Ilona Andrews - 1 - 333
Jacqueline Winspear - 1 - 352	Katie Mack - 1 - 237
Vernor Vinge - 1 - 555

January 2024 Author Cloud

Publication Range

Earliest Book - 1999

Most Recent Book - 2023

Publications by Decades

2020s - 2	2010s - 9
1990s - 1

Source

Borrowed From Public Library - 10	Shared with Friends - 1
My libro.fm Library - 1

Formats

Audio Book - 5

eBook - 7