{"id":1978,"date":"2020-02-03T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:16:14","slug":"january-reading-statistics-and-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"January Reading Statistics and Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1980\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ma-39596.jpg?resize=241%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ma-39596.jpg?resize=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ma-39596.jpg?resize=768%2C955&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ma-39596.jpg?resize=824%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 824w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ma-39596.jpg?w=1689&amp;ssl=1 1689w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ma-39596.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/>Here&#8217;s a snapshot of my reading in January. It was largely white and Western with a 50\/50 split between female and male authors. Since I plan ahead, I know the list gets more diverse in coming months. But tracking reading this way can help make sure I don&#8217;t just read cozy mysteries by nice white ladies.<\/p>\n<p>The full list is at the bottom along with links to reviews. My goal is to review every book I read this year. I&#8217;ll post all of them to the book&#8217;s page at LibraryThing along with my thread there. Some I&#8217;ll post here as well, either through reflective essays or reading roundups.<\/p>\n<p>Number of Books: 10<br \/>\nNumber of Pages: 3,183<\/p>\n<p>Genres:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiction: 4<\/li>\n<li>Travel Memoir: 2<\/li>\n<li>History: 1<\/li>\n<li>True Crime: 1<\/li>\n<li>Historical Fiction:1<\/li>\n<li>Mystery: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gender:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Male: 5<\/li>\n<li>Female: 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Country:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US: 8<\/li>\n<li>UK: 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Race\/Ethnicity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White: 9<\/li>\n<li>Black: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Origin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Library: 9<\/li>\n<li>Public Library: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kindle: 4<\/li>\n<li>Softcover: 3<\/li>\n<li>Hardcover: 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Publication Date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21st Century: 9<\/li>\n<li>20th Century: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/9196182\">The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ<\/a> by Philip Pullman<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/26670\">Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice<\/a> by Laurie R. King<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/11138019\">Nightwoods<\/a> by Charles Frazier<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/23103834\">One Good Deed<\/a> by David Baldacci<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/1157942\">Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya<\/a> by Jamaica Kincaid<\/p>\n<p>I reviewed the first five books <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1930\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/8603630\">The Big Burn<\/a> by Timothy Egan<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/15248460\">Midnight in Siberia<\/a> by David Greene (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1958\">Review<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/8364551\">The Man Who Loved Books Too Much<\/a> by Allison Hoover Bartlett<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/22647702\">The Women of the Copper Country<\/a> by Mary Doria Russell (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1970\">Review<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/30059\">Evil Under the Sun<\/a> by Agatha Christie<\/p>\n<p>I also read Book 1 of John McPhee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/124018\">Annals of the Former World<\/a> and reviewed it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1963\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a snapshot of my reading in January. It was largely white and Western with a 50\/50 split between female and male authors. Since I plan ahead, I know the list gets more diverse in coming months. But tracking reading this way can help make sure I don&#8217;t just read cozy mysteries by nice white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1978\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January Reading Statistics and Reviews<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,54],"tags":[520],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","tag-reading-statistics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-vU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}