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My before-bedtime reading set up because I can't do bright lights. Keeps my hands warm too. 🥰

I'm so close to being done "Never Whistle at Night!" such a good book, but it's taken me over a year to read it because I feel like I have to have time to digest each story (+ I've been struggling with migraines in that time too, so I mostly listened to audiobooks last year.)

I've really been enjoying going over the books I've read in the past 10 years on #bookwyrm and giving them little reviews, keeping me sane in these trying times. All I've wanted to do today besides read.

I also decided to start "The Shadow of the Wind" in Spanish. We'll see how long that takes me lol

Just for fun, and since I can't really trust the Fediverse friendly #Bookwyrm, nor especially any commercial book review aggregator, to ever allow me to export all the work I have done to input my book reviews and ratings, I'm just going to make a LibreOffice Base file of my own. When I have the tables set up and get it working, maybe I'll just release it into the wild, for anyone who wants it. I'll let y'all know how it's going at some point. 😁#Reading

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Is #Bookwyrm ever going to get it's export capability back? I imported all my Goodreads books and reviews when importing was still possible, but I'm questioning if I want to keep updating the database if I'll never be able to take any of my contributions with me.

Somehow it's already March, but here is my #BookReview summary for 2024.

69 books this year! Which is getting up towards the glory years of the late 2010s. In last year's summary I noted that the number of books I had read had dropped, possibly due to reading more news & articles. I went cold-turkey on the news for a good chunk of 2024, so perhaps that helped get my numbers back up.

I read 25,486 pages (70 pages/day), compared to 20,500 in 2023 (56 pages/day).

My average rating is up to 3.6 stars, which is amongst the highest since records began in 2009. This is due to an unusually high proportion of 4 star books (33%, compared to 20-25% typically), and low proportion of 3 stars books. This isn't explained by a shift in genre, so I've either made some good book choices or was feeling particularly generous.

In keeping with the zeitgeist, I partly fell off the #DEI bandwagon by reading more male authors than I have been. But I maintained my level of non-White authors. I had thoughtlessly stopped explicitly selecting from my To Read list based on gender, but had continued to do so based on diversity. Just goes to show that it requires effort to push back against the systemic biases of society (did someone mention DEI?).
My slide into fiction dominance continues. I blame #BrainFog and the fact that life is too short to beat yourself up about reading choices.

Notables:
* Cosy fiction is a thing, and it's great: Try "A Prayer For The Crown-Shy" by Becky Chambers (5 stars) and "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree.
* Fun Times in Hobart Town: "The Angry Women's Choir" by Meg Bignell (4.5 stars)
* Too Close to the Bone: "The Deluge" By Stephen Markley (4.5 stars)
* Traumatic Youth: "Lola In The Mirror" by Trent Dalton (5 stars), "Young Mungo" by Douglas Stuart (4.5 stars), "Jasper Jones" by Craig Silvey (4.5 stars)
* Horrifyingly Fascinating: "Plagues Upon The Earth" by Kyle Harper (4 stars) and "Nine Lives" by Aimen Dean (both 4 stars).
* Most Somnolent: "The Silmarillion" By JJR Tolkein (3.5 stars)
* Underwhelming: "Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey (first in The Expanse series, 3 stars)
* Formulaic Time-Suck: "An Ember In The Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir. As I finished it I really liked it, but as time passed I realised how empty my absorption had been.
* Most Controversial: "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2 stars)

See the full list here:
wildwoila.blogspot.com/2025/03

Follow me on #BookWyrm here:
wyrms.de/user/wildwoila

Started using kennys.ie/ instead of #Amazon to order my English-language #books yesterday. That's a store based in Ireland. They ship to Japan for 4 euros. I thought it would be more expensive than Amazon, but in fact no, despite the shipping cost.
They lack a wishlist however, so I might start a #bookwyrm to keep track of the books I want to buy. Maybe on RamblingReaders or Bookrastinating because I like the names 😀

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