2017 book meme
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How many books read in 2017: 98 by goodreads count (See also: Goodreads Year in Books page)
Fiction:Nonfiction:Other breakdown:
20 NF
16 other(poetry, plays, litmags containing mixed genres, and The Science of the Discworld II which is half-half fiction and nonfiction)
ergo 62 fiction, including picture books
Gender breakdown of authors:
19 solo or collaborating male authors (give or take - in some cases I'm making a guess & the author could be masc genderqueer. NOT counting shakespeare - i'm attributing that to the female editor)
5 m/f collaborations or edited collections with mixed-gender editorial teams
4 edited collections or lit mags by all-woman teams
4 lit mags with male editors
leaving 69 solo or collaborating female authors (give or take, as above - I've included Ivan E Coyote here, although he does go by male pronouns now, because I'm under the impression he doesn't ID as a man per se), of which two were editions or translations of premodern texts by women scholaars and one a woman writer translated by a man.
The annual caveats-included count of roughly how many non-white/ethnic minority authors: 18, at a fairly generous count. One of those is an edited collection of work by writers of one specific ethnicity; one is an ethnicity-non-specific academic collection with a mixed-ethnicity editorial board. More than last year, and party because I KNEW I'd be doing this count, and I regret none of the resultant reads, so yay.
Favourite Book Read, subdivided:
Non-fiction for personal interest: Ben Law & Jenny Phang, 'Law School', truly hilarious and oddly sound advice.
Academic reading: Hollie S Morgan's 'Beds and Chambers in Medieval England' caused me great delight
Fiction for fun: you know, I think it's KJ Charles' 'Spectred Isle'. I didn't read much litfic this year, and none of those I did stuck with me the way this indie did.
Least Favourite: Jenny Frame, 'Courting the Countess' was the most disappointing one I actually finished. Even worse was Penelope Friday, 'Loving my Lady', which I gave up on for flat prose and absolutely no sense of historical changes in expectations re female homosocial affection
Oldest book read: I think it's E Nesbitt's The Book of Dragons
Newest book read: Either Andromeda Spaceways 69, or 'The Medieval Merlin Tradition'. I had an ARC of 'Spectred Isle', too.
Longest Book Title: Might be 'The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy', which even
has a bonus subtitle.
Shortest Title: Maybe Alexis Hall, 'Pansies'
How many re-reads? Five, one of which I only read for the first time this year
Most books read by one author in the year? 6 by KJ Charles, one of which was a reread of one of the others
Any in translation? Banana Yoshimoto's 'Hard Boiled / Hard Luck', and Radice's translation of the letters of Heloise and Abelard
How many were from the library? As usual, not enough
How many books read in 2017: 98 by goodreads count (See also: Goodreads Year in Books page)
Fiction:Nonfiction:Other breakdown:
20 NF
16 other(poetry, plays, litmags containing mixed genres, and The Science of the Discworld II which is half-half fiction and nonfiction)
ergo 62 fiction, including picture books
Gender breakdown of authors:
19 solo or collaborating male authors (give or take - in some cases I'm making a guess & the author could be masc genderqueer. NOT counting shakespeare - i'm attributing that to the female editor)
5 m/f collaborations or edited collections with mixed-gender editorial teams
4 edited collections or lit mags by all-woman teams
4 lit mags with male editors
leaving 69 solo or collaborating female authors (give or take, as above - I've included Ivan E Coyote here, although he does go by male pronouns now, because I'm under the impression he doesn't ID as a man per se), of which two were editions or translations of premodern texts by women scholaars and one a woman writer translated by a man.
The annual caveats-included count of roughly how many non-white/ethnic minority authors: 18, at a fairly generous count. One of those is an edited collection of work by writers of one specific ethnicity; one is an ethnicity-non-specific academic collection with a mixed-ethnicity editorial board. More than last year, and party because I KNEW I'd be doing this count, and I regret none of the resultant reads, so yay.
Favourite Book Read, subdivided:
Non-fiction for personal interest: Ben Law & Jenny Phang, 'Law School', truly hilarious and oddly sound advice.
Academic reading: Hollie S Morgan's 'Beds and Chambers in Medieval England' caused me great delight
Fiction for fun: you know, I think it's KJ Charles' 'Spectred Isle'. I didn't read much litfic this year, and none of those I did stuck with me the way this indie did.
Least Favourite: Jenny Frame, 'Courting the Countess' was the most disappointing one I actually finished. Even worse was Penelope Friday, 'Loving my Lady', which I gave up on for flat prose and absolutely no sense of historical changes in expectations re female homosocial affection
Oldest book read: I think it's E Nesbitt's The Book of Dragons
Newest book read: Either Andromeda Spaceways 69, or 'The Medieval Merlin Tradition'. I had an ARC of 'Spectred Isle', too.
Longest Book Title: Might be 'The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy', which even
has a bonus subtitle.
Shortest Title: Maybe Alexis Hall, 'Pansies'
How many re-reads? Five, one of which I only read for the first time this year
Most books read by one author in the year? 6 by KJ Charles, one of which was a reread of one of the others
Any in translation? Banana Yoshimoto's 'Hard Boiled / Hard Luck', and Radice's translation of the letters of Heloise and Abelard
How many were from the library? As usual, not enough