This is more a housekeeping post than anything, which is why I time-stamped it to show up below the BAFAB post: I like to do quarterly reviews of my reading and blogging in order to see patterns/trends/etc.  Yep, I’m a bit of a nerd-but at least I don’t make graphs from the data!

Reading
Books Read: 79
Audiobooks: 6
Female Authors: 36
Non-Fiction: 27
Fiction: 52
Setting/Topic International (doesn’t count England): 37
F by International Authors (doesn’t count English authors): 18
Translated F: 7
Classics: 13
YA/Children’s Lit: 11
Short Story Collections: 4
Rereads: 8

Blogging
Reviews Published (books): 35
Reviews Published (short stories): 13
Entries Made: 78
Challenges Participated In: 16
Challenges Completed: 3

What I think is most interesting about this is that over half of my reading is either set abroad or about an international topic, but only 23% of the books I read are by foreign authors (once again, I don’t count England as ‘foreign’ since I lived there for seven years). That’s a pretty big difference! Still, I’m not doing too bad on foreign authors, even if only 13% of the fiction I read is in translation. I hope to up that one a little. Of my fiction reading, a quarter falls into the ‘classics’ category (I’ve included authors like Lewis, Nesbit, and Wodehouse in this-it’s difficult to decide what exactly a classic is), which isn’t too bad. If I change that to pre-twentieth century, though, it drops to a much less respectable 8% (oh, Forster, why couldn’t you have published A Room With a View nine years earlier?). Must work on that! (We need a classics challenge, people!) My blogging’s quite respectable, although March’s numbers are down due to vacation. Still, I’m quite happy on that front. And the sheer number of books I’ve read boggles my mind-I’ve never read at this kind of pace before in my life. We’ll see if it keeps up for the next quarter or not.