Apparently, it has been a hot minute since I last did one of these. Since it has been a while, I'm not going to try and reconstruct my acquisitions.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2022: 360
Mt TBR @ 31 May 2022: 396
Mt TBR @ 30 June 2022: 397

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April was largely focused on the Magical Readathon. I read a fair bit of non-fiction, which slowed me down, but this was counterbalanced by the motivation of the readathon.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2022: 360
Mt TBR @ 31 March 2022: 396
Mt TBR @ 30 April 2022: 390

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February was the month of short: two short story collections, a book of short poems and a couple of novellas. Perhaps that’s fitting for a short month.

My reading has continued to be slower this year than it used to be. I’m doing my best to roll with it, but it trips up my planning from time to time.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2022: 360
Mt TBR @ 31 January 2022: 388
Mt TBR @ 28 February 2022: 389

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Happy New Year! I hope those of you celebrating had wonderful holidays.

With another year’s reading wrapped up, I find myself pondering the changes to my annual reading totals over time. 2021 was my sixteenth year of gathering data. Prior to 2015 (which was my first full year of running the Earl Grey Editing blog), I wasn’t consistently reading more than 100 books. Starting the blog almost doubled the previous year’s total. 2016-2019 stats were influenced by judging for the Aurealis Awards, which is what consistently pushed my annual reading totals into triple digits.

2020 was a year without judging and largely without reviewing. Even without these factors, I still managed to read 169 books. This gives more weight to my feeling that judging has permanently changed the way I read.

2021 seems to have played out a little differently. While I have once again managed to reach triple digits, the final total wasn’t quite as high as I’d expected. One difference to last year was that I was reviewing, but while this has surely pushed up the total somewhat, it didn’t entirely counter the lulls. This was particularly the case towards the end of the year. It’s hard to say whether stress was a factor or whether this is simply part of a new pattern to my reading. After all, continual growth is not sustainable. Perhaps 2022 will shed some light.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426
Mt TBR @ 30 November 2021: 361
Mt TBR @ 31 December 2021: 360

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With the Magical Readathon concluding at the end of September, I found October a slower month for reading. Amusingly enough, it seemed to have a focus on history — be it historical fantasy, historical romance or alternate history.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426
Mt TBR @ 30 September 2021: 392
Mt TBR @ 31 October 2021: 393


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The urge to do some spring cleaning hit me this month and particularly targeted my Mt TBR. It was finally time for me to let go of some things that I just wasn’t ever going to get around to reading. I’ve not noted the specifics of what I unhauled, but you can see the impact in my numbers.

I don’t think I’m done yet.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426
Mt TBR @ 31 July 2021: 428
Mt TBR @ 31 August 2021: 394


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June was a slower month for reading. My reading obligations dragged out longer than I anticipated and I picked up a new craft project.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426
Mt TBR @ 31 May 2021: 420
Mt TBR @ 30 June 2021: 423


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Last month, I mentioned I was trying a new approach to my TBR, recommended by Sandstone. Safe to say it has been very effective. This was probably also helped by some improvements in my health.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426
Mt TBR @ 31 March 2021: 425
Mt TBR @ 30 April 2021: 416


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My reading for this year continues to be a lot slower than it has in the past. This seems to be a general trend, but I also found myself contending with some major changes to routine and I still haven’t found my new groove. A recent obsession with the game Hades probably hasn’t helped. My reading for the month mostly focused on shorter, more fluffy content. I’m considering revising my reading goals down so they don’t become a source of stress. It seems I’m just not feeling it at the moment.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426
Mt TBR @ 31 January 2021: 430
Mt TBR @ 28 February 2021: 429<

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Happy New Year! I hope those of you celebrating had wonderful holidays. I could have used a little more reading, but had a wonderful time with family.

This is usually the part where I look back over my reading stats for the past year, but I have decided to forego the navel-gazing this time. There were a couple of trends I’ll note, all of which were related to COVID-19. The major lockdown period for my hometown ran from March until the end of May (we have been very lucky). During those months, I read more than average and the books I read were largely sourced from my existing TBR pile. Library loans for 2020 were significantly down on previous years, due to the closure of the library.

Mt TBR Status

Mt TBR @ 1 January 2020: 427
Mt TBR @ 30 November 2020: 420
Mt TBR @ 31 December 2020: 424

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