January 2023 Recap

I bought no new books! For January, at least. This puts me at a solid 31 days of no book buying. If I was savvier with tech I’d figure out how to have one of those wingers on it that has a “days since last book buying incident” counting down in the header. Who knows, maybe coming to a website near you. 

I read 9 books in January, the majority of which were nonfiction and digital. No, I did not finish reading the Collected Works of Audre Lorde. But I did read some other things. All photos and graphics are courtesy of the Storygraph, who are really fine people and a non-Amazon owned alternative to Goodreads. And they have graphs! Graphs!!!!!! If you know me at all (which hey you may not), I adore graphs. I had an entire index in my Master’s Thesis full of graphs. Graphs!!!

Anyways, onto what I read. First, a list of what I actually read: 

Then, how they break down down by Mood. 

Lastly, as I already mentioned, I read mostly Non-fiction and digital books, but here’s the graphical evidence of such. 

Only 3 of the books I read last month were physical, and therefore my own. My hope is to do better than that this month, as I’m currently reading 6 physical books at once. You read that right. Six. Do as I say, not as I do. 

I have a feeling that my unbeaten streak of NoNewBooks is not long for this world, as I have a friend coming to visit this month who wants to hit up all the local bookstores, and who am I to deny her such pleasures? 

The one interesting tidbit that I will leave you with is that after physically counting all of my books in December (1,020 in case you forgot) I did the math on how many I had read vs. not. All told, it came out to that I had read 514 out of 1020 books, and had not read 506. The percentage of books in my house that I have not read is therefore 49%, by simple math. And honestly…I’m not mad at this? Or even that surprised, really. I though it would be worse quite honestly. Should this be better? Yeah absolutely, and that’s part of what this challenge to myself is about - not getting distracted by the allure of new books and reading what I have. But truly, I expected that stat to be much, much worse. 

And on that happy note, I shall leave you to your February readings. This is a short weird month and I hate it but I guess that means Spring is coming soon? I hate Spring too, so I’m not even sure what I’m on about here. I’ll be back at the bare minimum with another recap at the end of the month, and maybe some other fun new updates as I get this website up and fully functional. Thanks again for joining me in my weird little corner of the internet.