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Ooo. Totally stealing this from gamma_x_orionis
How many books did you read this year?
65, though a good percentage of them were books on tape since I count them the same.
Fiction to Non-Fiction Ratio?
45:20 which is not bad. I'm always trying to achieve a more balanced ratio as I enjoy non-fiction but tend to gravitate more toward fiction.
Male/Female authors?
18/33 and those of you who feel the need to add, can see that I also read multiple books by a single author.
Books by People of Color?
The one collection of short stories had quite a few, but other than that I'm not sure.
Books in translation/a second language?
The Ruby Red Trilogy books were originally in German, I believe, and many of the short stories in the collection mentioned above were originally published in languages other than English.
How many were borrowed from the library?
Two -- The Game of Thrones audiobooks. Other than that I was making a concerted effort this year to work through all the books I owned that I hadn't read. Anything else I got from various places online.
Oldest book?
Sense and Sensibility (1811) though Rob Roy (1817) and Ivanhoe (1819) were not far behind.
Newest book?
Out of the Easy, Shirley Jones: a Memoir, More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, and City of a Thousand Dolls were all published in 2013.
Longest book title?
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain.
Shortest book title?
Emma (which beat out Cinder by two letters).
Most by any one author?
Six by Jim Butcher (the first Six in the Dresden Files).
Favourites?
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis -- A delightful Victorian pastiche with time travel and a side stopover in the Blitz. You know as you do.
Least Favourite?
Shirley Jones: a Memoir -- I really wanted to like this but the writing was kind of atrocious and way to many instances of TMI being trotted out as scandalous when they really weren't.
How many were rereads?
Technically none of them, but was familiar enough with Sense and Sensibility, Emma and North and South that they might as well have been.
Favourite character?
Verity Kindle from to Say Nothing of the Dog or Margaret Hale from North and South.
Favourite scene?
I have no idea.
Favourite quote?
I don't really have one.
Which would you read again?
I don't re-read all that much so there is a distinct possibility none of them. On the other hand I could see myself revisiting the Austens, North and South, and To Say Nothing of the Dog at a later date.
How many books did you read this year?
65, though a good percentage of them were books on tape since I count them the same.
Fiction to Non-Fiction Ratio?
45:20 which is not bad. I'm always trying to achieve a more balanced ratio as I enjoy non-fiction but tend to gravitate more toward fiction.
Male/Female authors?
18/33 and those of you who feel the need to add, can see that I also read multiple books by a single author.
Books by People of Color?
The one collection of short stories had quite a few, but other than that I'm not sure.
Books in translation/a second language?
The Ruby Red Trilogy books were originally in German, I believe, and many of the short stories in the collection mentioned above were originally published in languages other than English.
How many were borrowed from the library?
Two -- The Game of Thrones audiobooks. Other than that I was making a concerted effort this year to work through all the books I owned that I hadn't read. Anything else I got from various places online.
Oldest book?
Sense and Sensibility (1811) though Rob Roy (1817) and Ivanhoe (1819) were not far behind.
Newest book?
Out of the Easy, Shirley Jones: a Memoir, More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, and City of a Thousand Dolls were all published in 2013.
Longest book title?
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain.
Shortest book title?
Emma (which beat out Cinder by two letters).
Most by any one author?
Six by Jim Butcher (the first Six in the Dresden Files).
Favourites?
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis -- A delightful Victorian pastiche with time travel and a side stopover in the Blitz. You know as you do.
Least Favourite?
Shirley Jones: a Memoir -- I really wanted to like this but the writing was kind of atrocious and way to many instances of TMI being trotted out as scandalous when they really weren't.
How many were rereads?
Technically none of them, but was familiar enough with Sense and Sensibility, Emma and North and South that they might as well have been.
Favourite character?
Verity Kindle from to Say Nothing of the Dog or Margaret Hale from North and South.
Favourite scene?
I have no idea.
Favourite quote?
I don't really have one.
Which would you read again?
I don't re-read all that much so there is a distinct possibility none of them. On the other hand I could see myself revisiting the Austens, North and South, and To Say Nothing of the Dog at a later date.