May Reading Stats

May was a much better reading month than April! I finished a few books that I’ve been reading bits of here and there for a while. (Graphics courtesy of Story Graph!)

A lot more fiction last month than I typically read, so that was different! Part of that is because DH and I started listening to audio books together some evenings. This month we did Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Both were done very well. Richard Armitage (Thorin from the Hobbit movies) narrated Jekyll and Hyde! He did a really great job with it. Next we are thinking about listening to a Sherlock Holmes, maybe A Study in Scarlet. We’ll see.

I read Moby Dick along with knitting my Melville. Why? I don’t know – maybe to create some mood around the process? I had read it before and liked it. And I liked it again

The 2 mysteries are both from cozy series I have been reading and both were an acceptable level of both cozy and mystery. And finally, I have been reading Andean Folk Knitting for several months now. It is an old, many years out of print book. It took a while because it is a really dense book, both typographically and in subject matter. It’s a really detailed look at the topic and does have a few sample patterns. If you are interested in this topic and like to hunt for old books, this is a good one to put on your list.

Now a question for the readers – do you use a reading journal? If so, what features do you look for in a reading journal? Do you prefer using Story Graph or a similar online reading tracker? I ask because ads keep popping up for reading journals from the Quirky Cup Collective – they are just beautiful, but I don’t know that I would use them. So for those that do track their reading – what’s your preferred way to do that?