I didn’t read much towards the start of the month, but towards the end of the month I had a case of the blues, and then I got sick, so I suddenly read a lot.<\/p>\n
Which was perfectly fine with me.<\/p>\n
I read some really good books, and I read absolutely one abysmal book. We’re talking a book that had me ranting for days<\/em> after I finished it.<\/p>\n The best books of the month were re-reads: A Fistful Of Sky<\/a><\/em> by Nina Kiriki Hoffman<\/a>,\u00a0 Rising Stars<\/a> by J. Michael Straczynski<\/a>, and the Jane Yellowrock series, by Faith Hunter <\/a>. Plus one new read, the anthology Magic City: Recent Spells<\/a><\/em> edited by Paula Guran<\/a> which was very good.<\/p>\n Fantasy: Supernatural<\/strong><\/p>\n A Fistful Of Sky<\/a><\/em> (2002) Nina Kiriki Hoffman<\/a> \u00a0(10\/10) Fantasy: Anthology<\/strong><\/p>\n Magic City: Recent Spells<\/a><\/em> (2014) Paula Guran <\/a>\u00a0(8.5\/10) Fantasy: Historical \/ Steampunk<\/strong><\/p>\n Farthing<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2006) Jo Walton<\/a> \u00a0(7\/10) Comic \/ Graphic Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n Rising Stars: Born in Fire, Power, Fire and Ash<\/em><\/a> \u00a0(2001-2005) J. Michael Straczynski<\/a>, Keu Cha, Ken Lashley et al \u00a0(10\/10) And now for my favorite part: THE NUMBERS!<\/p>\n I read 17 books this month, bringing the total so far this year to 105 books. I’m averaging 15 books a month, which is my highest average yet. But I’m sure that’ll drop down when cooler weather hits and I get outside more.<\/p>\n Because I had so many re-reads (8), I actually read more paper books than ebooks. The trade paperbacks were all comics, and I fully admit that I really prefer reading comics on paper. (The things that are supposed to increase your ereading pleasure with comics actually take me out of the story. But I’ll keep trying.)<\/p>\n Paperback<\/strong>: 6 I read mostly fantasy this month (with even the comics mostly in the fantasy genre).<\/p>\n Fantasy<\/strong>: 15 And I read very heavily of female authors this month. <\/p>\n Male<\/strong>: 2 Which brings the straight-up male:female ratio 1:1.<\/p>\n Male<\/strong>: 38% However, when you consider that the overwhelming majority of authors I read who are writing under initials are women, and a number of women writing under male pseudonyms, almost half the books I’ve read this year were written by women. Not too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t read much towards the start of the month, but towards the end of the month I had a case of the blues, and then I got sick, so I suddenly read a lot. Which was perfectly fine with me. I read some really good books, and I read absolutely one abysmal book. We’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-35i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDirty Magic<\/a><\/em> (2014) Jaye Wells (7\/10)
\nUrban Shaman<\/a><\/em> (2005) C.E. Murphy \u00a0(6.5\/10)
\nJane Yellowrock<\/strong>:
\nSkinwalker<\/a> <\/em>\u00a0(2009) Faith Hunter <\/a>\u00a0(8\/10)
\nBlood Cross<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2010) Faith Hunter <\/a>\u00a0(8\/10)
\nMercy Blade<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2011) Faith Hunter <\/a>\u00a0(7\/10)
\nRaven Cursed<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2012) Faith Hunter <\/a>(8\/10)
\nDeath\u2019s Rival<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2012) Faith Hunter <\/a>\u00a0(8\/10)
\nBlood Trade<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2013) Faith Hunter <\/a>\u00a0(8\/10)<\/p>\n
\nStrange Brew<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2009) edited by P.N. Elrod<\/a> (7\/10)<\/p>\n
\nHounds of Autumn<\/a><\/em> \u00a0(2013) Heather Blackwood \u00a0(2\/10)<\/p>\n
\nHellboy<\/strong>:
\nHellboy: The Midnight Circus<\/em><\/a> \u00a0(2013) Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, Dave Stewart (7\/10)
\nHellboy in Hell Volume 1: The Descent<\/em><\/a> \u00a0(2014) Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart (7\/10)
\nLocal<\/a> \u00a0(2008) Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly \u00a0(NR)<\/p>\n
\nTrade Paperback<\/strong>: 3
\neBook<\/strong>: 8<\/p>\n
\nMystery<\/strong>: 7
\nRomance<\/strong>: 2
\nYA<\/strong>: 1
\nComic<\/strong>: 4
\nAnthology<\/strong>: 2<\/p>\n
\nFemale<\/strong>: 11
\nAnthology<\/strong>: 4<\/p>\n
\nFemale<\/strong>: 38%
\nJoint + Anthology<\/strong>: 14%
\nInitials<\/strong>: 9%
\nMale Pseudonym<\/strong>: 2%<\/p>\n