My Book Blogging Journey: Year Three

Well, here goes: my third year of blogging in stats. (If you're interested, you can check out my 2018 and 2017 stats too.) I love making these pie charts - it's so satisfying to see what the year looks like in numbers, all the individual books I've read coming together into a greater overall picture.…

Americanah

After reading two of Adichie’s nonfiction pieces over the past few years, Dear Ijeawele and We Should All Be Feminists, and loving them, I knew that I was going to have to get around to reading some of her fiction sooner rather than later. I asked on bookstagram to see where I should start and…

My Book Blogging Journey: Year Two

I started this wrap-up post last year, after my very first year of blogging, and loved seeing all my stats visually. Plus, it gave me real guidance on what diversity "holes" I needed to fill in for the following year's reading. So, here I am again, sharing some fun and colorful pie charts of my…

Kindred

As I have mentioned before, I’m trying to read books from a more representative range of authors this year. I have always read more female authors than male…I just have always gravitated that way. But I realized that I was not doing as well reading books from a variety of racial, ethnic, sexuality, etc. authors.…

My Book Blogging Journey: Year One

I saw a couple bloggers do something like this at the end of last year and, though I'm spectacularly late (it took me awhile to get all the numbers together...plus some procrastinating), I'd like to jump in on the game too! A few notes before we start. I actually started this blog at the end…