Well, Jesus fuck me gently with a chainsaw: this month I finished 53 books. FIFTY THREE!<\/p>\n
It still counts if much of that was volumes of poetry, right? Actually, I feel like I should get bonus credit for reading poetry. I enjoy it occasionally, when I’m in the mood, but since August 24th was National Poetry Day, I pushed hard to try works from a wide variety of poets (and squeezed in a few of my faves too – I’m looking at you Rupi Kaur and Selina Tusitala Marsh, with heart eyes!), with a focus on including Kiwis, women and people of colour.<\/p>\n
The rest was a fairly typical mix of crime thrillers & spiritual stuff, with the odd Spec Fic novel thrown in.<\/p>\n
The NZ Book Council<\/a> released survey reports stating that\u00a0 86% of adult respondents read\/started at least one book in the past year, and gave an estimated average of 35 books read per reader. Honestly, that seems high to me and I suspect it’s because of book nerds like me fuckin’ with the bell curve. Danyl Mclauchlan of The Spinoff<\/a> floats the idea that people are prone to fibbing in these kinds of surveys, which makes a weird kind of sense too. He says that Wellington Library reported the average number of books borrowed by members in 2017 was about 11 per person, but there’s no mention of how many registered members they have. If I look at my immediate circle of family, not many use the library: me obv., and I know my brother borrows ebooks, and my mum may rarely go (she usually just buys her own books though, or borrows from friends), and after 18 years with my spouse, he did actually get a library card last year – to borrow a grand total of three books.<\/p>\n Anyway, for those who are curious, here’s the big list!<\/p>\n\n\n Wheels of Life<\/em> by Anodea Judith 53 (!) in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, Jesus fuck me gently with a chainsaw: this month I finished 53 books. FIFTY THREE! It still counts if much of that was volumes of poetry, right? Actually, I feel like I should get bonus credit for reading poetry. I enjoy it occasionally, when I’m in the mood, but since August 24th was National … Continue reading “Reading List 2018 – August”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,7,5],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-6","tag-books","tag-reading-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Cold Granite<\/em> by Stuart McBride
Before the Storm<\/em> by Christie Golden
The Witch\u2019s Athame<\/em> by Jason Mankey
Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice<\/em> by Candice Covington
Pieces of Her<\/em> by Karin Slaughter
What\u2019s a Witch to Do?<\/em> by Jennifer Harlow
Wicca for Life<\/em> by Raymond Buckland
Bloody January<\/em> by Alan Parks
How to Stop Time<\/em> by Matt Haig
If You Go Down to the Woods<\/em> by Seth C. Adams
Little Wolves<\/em> by Thomas Maltman
Magicians Impossible<\/em> by Brad Abraham
The Murder Book<\/em> by Jane A. Adams
The Merry Spinster<\/em> by Mallory Ortberg
Wrede on Writing<\/em> by Patricia C. Wrede
Writing With Intent<\/em> by Margaret Atwood
Sometimes the Magic Works<\/em> by Terry Brooks
Wicca for One<\/em> by Raymond Buckland
A Little Book on Form<\/em> by Robert Hass
In Perfect Love<\/em> by Taliesin Govannon
The Sun and Her Flowers<\/em> by Rupi Kaur
Poisoned Apples<\/em> by Christine Hepperman
Night Sky with Exit Wounds<\/em> by Ocean Vuong
The Dream of a Common Language<\/em> by Adrienne Rich
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities<\/em> by Chen Chen
Rumi: Bridge to the Soul<\/em> by Coleman Banks
100 Best-Loved Poems<\/em> by Philip Smith
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson<\/em> by Emily Dickinson
The Black Unicorn<\/em> by Audre Lorde
Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke<\/em> by Rilke
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems <\/em>ed. by Bill Manhire
Winter Trees<\/em> by Sylvia Plath
Auckland <\/em>ed. by Witi Ihimaera
Allen Curnow: Collected Poems<\/em> ed. by Terry Sturm
Tightrope<\/em> by Selina Tusitala Marsh
Selected Poems<\/em> by James K. Baxter
Collected Poems 1951-2006<\/em> by C.K. Stead
Mauri Ola<\/em> ed. by Albert Wendt
Poems 1960-2000<\/em> by Fleur Adcock
Al Que Quiere!<\/em> by William Carlos Williams
A Miscellany<\/em> by e.e. cummings
yesterday i was the moon<\/em> by Noor Unnahar
The Silver Child<\/em> by Cliff McNish
Omega<\/em> by Stewart Farrar
Sign of the Labrys<\/em> by Margaret St. Clair
Witchcraft from the Inside<\/em> by Raymond Buckland
A Madness of Angels<\/em> by Kate Griffin
Failure of Moonlight<\/em> by Rosemary Edghill
Murder by Magic<\/em> ed. by Rosemary Edghill
Modern Wicca<\/em> by Michael Howard
Witches of America<\/em> by Alex Mar
Merry Meet Again<\/em> by Deborah Lipp<\/p>\n\n\n\n