In this month that ended before I realized it had begun, I somehow finished 23 works with a total of 6,881 pages (or the equivalent). I DNF’ed one book, but the rest had an average rating of 3.8. As usual, I didn’t write as much as I wanted to–which didn’t bother me until I saw how many things this month didn’t get covered. I’m sure I’ll get them done pretty soon, but, it made me wonder what I…

21 books, 6643 pages (576 of those belonging to what’s likely going to be my fave of the year), with a 3.7 Star average. Also, I posted probably the largest number of non-review-ish posts that I’ve ever managed. That’s a pretty good month. Obviously, I would’ve liked more of everything, but that’s because I’m greedy.

Here’s what happened here in May.

(still…

Well, this is more like it: 25 titles, 7290+ pages (there was one e-short story that I didn’t get a page count on, but it’s enough to put me north of 8K)–three thousand more than March. My average rating for the month was 3.56, which isn’t exactly my goal–but it still means I enjoyed just about everything I consumed. I’ve made a more concerted effort to make time to read over the last couple of…

It’s hard with work right now, but given COVID-19, Sheltering at Home—and a (no kidding!) Earthquake in Idaho (of all places)—man, I need books to escape to and lose myself in. So I’m pretty glad that despite everything going on in the world and my life, I somehow managed to finish one more book than last month—18—with 4903+ pages (one was an Audible Original, so I have no idea what the page…

The short version: 17 books, 5715 pages, 3.6 Average. The same number of books as January, a thousand (or so) more pages (not sure how that worked), a decent average rating. Things are ramping up at work for a couple of months, and I’ll be stunned if my numbers don’t slim down a little until June. All in all, a pretty decent month (unless you compare what I did to my February Plans post…but we…

January 2020 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About Template

January in sum: 17 books read, 4,453+ pages (two books—1 audio, 1 e-ARC—don’t have that information available), with an average of 3.8 rating (4 5-star reads!!). I’d have preferred a few more books in general and the ratio between print and audio favors audiobooks more than I’d like, but work’s been so heavy I haven’t been able to read as much (and I can listen while I work most of the time),…

December 2019 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

December was a low(er) month for numbers of 26 books but 7,828 pages (or the equivalent) is nothing to sneeze at, and an average rating of 4 stars is likely my best yet!

I’m trying to not complain about how little I write (something new, I know)—but man…I did a bad job this month. But I really liked a couple of my posts more than I usually do, so there’s that. Still, I’ve got to work on my…

The Irresponsible Readers Festivus 2019: For the Rest of Us

Shunning the commercialization of Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Santaween/Chrismukkah, we’re celebrating Festivus for the rest of us here at The Irresponsible Reader.

Let’s begin our observance!

Here I am with my Festivus pole. Yeah, it’s a little small, but I’d rather spend money on books than the full aluminum pole. Very high strength to weight ratio, nevertheless.

Note the lack of distracting…