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Wrap Up | May 2021 & #BasicallyReadathon

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Hello and welcome to another wrap up, this time for may 2021! I did not post a Middle Mark this past month because I wanted to change some things up behind the scenes a bit and needed to take some time for that. The good news is my reading mojo came back full force this month, which I am beyond thrilled about. Anyway, I am just going to get right to the books. Also, this month my reviews of the reads are mostly just going to be start readings because I didn’t take a lot of notes. Just a heads up, next month it will be back to a short blurb for each book as well.

Assassination Classroom, Vol. 05: Time to Show Off a Hidden TalentAssassination Classroom, Vol. 05: Time to Show Off a Hidden Talent by Yūsei Matsui
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Continues to be a great series.

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Assassination Classroom, Vol. 03: Time for a Transfer StudentAssassination Classroom, Vol. 03: Time for a Transfer Student by Yūsei Matsui
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Continues to be a great series.

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Assassination Classroom, Vol. 06: Swim TimeAssassination Classroom, Vol. 06: Swim Time by Yūsei Matsui
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Continues to be a great series.

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Assassination Classroom, Vol. 04: Time to Face the UnbelievableAssassination Classroom, Vol. 04: Time to Face the Unbelievable by Yūsei Matsui
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Continues to be a great series.

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Assassination Classroom, Vol. 07: On Island TimeAssassination Classroom, Vol. 07: On Island Time by Yūsei Matsui
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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The AgonistThe Agonist by Shastra Deo
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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PachinkoPachinko by Min Jin Lee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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The Once and Future WitchesThe Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1)A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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My Brilliant FriendMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2)The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (L'amica geniale, #3)Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels #4)The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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I took part in the BasicallyReadathon this past weekend and actually ended up reading the entire The Neopolian Novels series, which was a huge accomplishment and I did end up enjoying the series. I am so happy my aunt gifted those to me and I was able to read them all together, I feel like it really added to it because able to just sit there and read them all.

I managed to read a total of 14 books, 5,203 pages. Thirteen of those books were fiction and I read no nonfiction books this month. I read 2 ebooks, 1 hardcover book and 11 soft cover books. I have 5 – 5 star read, 4 – 4 star read, and 5 – 3 star read this month.

What was your favorite book you read this month?

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Let’s Talk | My Year in Book Stats 2020

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Hello and welcome to an overview of my reading and reading stats. for the 2020 year! As always I am going to share a link to my good reads stats, but I am also going to be sharing some stats I kept myself in a google sheet throughout the entire year. I am honestly really surprised I kept up with it all year, but I plan on using the same format this upcoming year because it is low maintenance, but fun to see the progress.

Goodreads Yearly Recap

  • Shortest Book: 55 pages, The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
  • Longest Book: 1,020 pages, Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
  • Average book length in 2020: 329 pages
  • My average rating for 2020: 3.9 Stars
  • Highest Rated on Goodreads: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

End of the Year Reading Stats I’v Kept

I am just going to focus on my totals at this point of the year, but if you want to explore my stats for other months you can check out my monthly wrap ups! You can do so here: Bookish Luna’s Wrap Ups.

  • 136 Books
  • 44.603 Pages
  • 110 Fiction
  • 26 Non-fiction
  • 3 DNFs
  • 12 eBooks
  • 3 Audiobooks
  • 42 Hard Covers
  • 78 Soft Covers
  • 10 Library Books
  • 125 Owned Books
  • 38 5 Star Books
  • 62 4 Star Books
  • 24 3 Star Books
  • 11 2 Star Books
  • 1 1 Star Book

How was your reading year in 2020?

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Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon Recap | October 2020

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Hello and welcome to my second post of the day. Yesterday I took part in Dewey’s 24 Hour Readahon and I wanted to share my experience and my reading progress. Throughout the day I updated on twitter and instagram, but I did not share anything on here. I thought a recap post would be best.

If you would like to know more about the readathon, you can visit their website, they have been around for a long time, their first readathon was in 2007! They host a readathon 2 times a year, generally in April and October. I have taken part in a few over the years and I have always enjoyed between the mini challenges, games, and reading sprints.

Updates

Starting off hour 1 of #deweys24hourreadathon with an audiobook.

screen shot of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me audiobook.
screen shot of Between the World and Me audiobook screen

Decided to take part a mini challenge for the #readathon.
Hers is my name in books! Now, back to the reading! P.S. I decided to just make this one big thread for the day.

Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent The Hunger by Alma Katzu Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy All stacked and pictured surrounded by flowers.
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent, The Hunger by Alma Katsu, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

#readathon update, I finished my first book. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rating: 5 stars.

Picture of Between the World and Me with 5 stars.

Quick #readathon update for #deweys24hourreadathon. I am 38% through my current read, which is Amityville Horror by Jay Anson.

Holding book open to Chapter 12 with text overlay describing current progress to 38%
picture of the heading of chapter 12 to show progress.

I finished my second book of the #readathon, now I need to figure out what to read next.

I decided my next read of the #readathon will be continuing Cemetery Boys, I am starting at page 41. Let's see how far I get before falling asleep. 😂 I am making more progress than I thought I would during Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon.

Picture of Cemetery yBoys and a green pen on covers.

Originally tweeted by bookishluna (@BookishLuna) on October 24, 2020.

Not pictured is a 8:30 run to go get some caffeine, I started getting really sleepy and my BF and myself took a reading break and went out in search of coffee and tea. Once back I came back and met my main goal of finishing Amityville Horror.

Wrap Up

I ended up finishing two books and 20% of another. The two books I finished were Between the World and Me, which was amazing, and The Amityville Horror. Both I really enjoyed both of these books for very different reasons, but I am really glad I picked them up.

  • Books Read: 2
  • Books Started: 1
  • Pages Read: 478

I had such a blast dedicating the day to reading, especially with all of the stuff going on in my life right now. At this point I plan on participating again in April!

What is your favorite readathon?

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Year in Review | 2018

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Year in Review!

This year has been  a really amazing reading year for me. I found a few new favorite authors, read some books I have been dreaming of reading for years, and I met most off my reading goals, you  can learn more about that here: Reading Goals | 2018 Recap. Anyway, I have already posted a few blog posts talking about my favorite books, Lists | Best Books of 2018 , my least favorite, Lists | Worst Books of 2018, but I wanted to share more about my actual over all reading stats.

If you want to see all of these in detail, where all of my books are listed you can visit that here.

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How did your reading year go?

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