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2022 Snapshot - Your Reading Year in 280 Characters or Less!
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Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy & MysteryTop Books 📖 - A Carrion Death (Detective Kubu, #1) & Promises to Keep (Charles de Lint)
Top Authors ✍️ - Adrian Tchaikovsky and Fred Vargas
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - Kindle books
Where You Read the Most 📍- home and waiting in various places
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Top genre: Fantasy
Top books: Tomorrow&Tomorrow&Tomorrow, Nettle & Bone, Hidden Palace, Howl’s, Hat Full of Sky
Top authors: MR Carey, Pratchett, Kingfisher, DWJ, TamMuir (read >1 books by each, it turns out)
Top reading medium: 🎧
Where you read most: my bed? Certainly my headphones.
What a fun idea. :-)Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy
Top Books 📖 - Jade Legacy, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Top Authors ✍️ - T. Kingfisher, John Scalzi, Becky Chambers
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - paper
Where You Read the Most 📍- home
Great one, Beth. I followed the account. (I don't put in the links, because this brings me over 280 characters due to the insane full title of Babel)Top Genre: SFF
Top Books: Spear Cuts Through Water, Babel, Children of Memory, Books of Babel, Once There W Wolves, Beartown, Veiled Edge of Contact
Top Authors: A Tchaikovsky, C McConaghy, S Jimenez, RF Kuang
Top Reading Medium: audio
Where You Read the Most: train to dad
I'm already getting a chuckle over how folks are working around the character restriction.
top genre - classics top books - tfios, me before you
top authors - John Green, Jojo Moyes
top reading medium - paper
where you read most - my bed lol
Joining the fun!Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy
Top Books 📖 - Sabriel, Jade War, Circe, The Girl in His Shadow, Lady Trent books, Nettle&Bone
Top Authors ✍️ - Taylor Jenkins Reid, Cixin Liu, Marie Brennan, T.Kingfisher
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - Audio
Where You Read the Most 📍- Home
Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy & Sci-fiTop Books 📖 - The Navigator, The Aurora Cycle, Project Hail Mary, Winter's Orbit
Top Authors ✍️ - Erin Michelle Sky & Steven Brown, Becky Chambers, Everina Maxwell, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - Paper
Where You Read the Most 📍- Home
In one word: uneven.Top (not a) genre: children's books.
Top authors remain Becky Chambers and Michael Perry.
Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy & RomanceTop Books 📖 - A 🙏 for the 👑-Shy, 🌿 & 🦴, 🤴 & Assassin
Top (new) Authors ✍️ - Tamsyn Muir, Amy Rae Durreson, Eli Easton
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - Ebook
Where You Read the Most 📍- Bed
(Most disgruntled that GR won't let me use emoji in book links. No fun at all.)
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Top genre: SF&FTop Books: Nona the Ninth, Princess Floralinda, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Top Authors: Tamsyn Muir, VE Schwab, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Top Reading Medium: Paper
Where you read the most: Armchair by the window
Top Genre 📚 - Yup fantasy LOLTop Books 📖 - Piranesi; Where the Drowned Girls Go, Lemon
Top Authors ✍️ - Susan Cooper (buddy reread The Dark is Rising)
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - trees! (amazingly not even close!)
Where You Read the Most 📍- My couch
Gabi wrote: "I don't put in the links, because this brings me over 280 characters due to the insane full title of Babel"Did you know that you can edit the text in the book links?
So that they say exactly what you want them to say!
All of these are Babel!
They're all the same link.
I just typed over the part where the book's title is :)
Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction Top Books 📖 - The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt; The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee; rereads: (Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr; The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Piranesi by Susanna Clarke)
Top Authors ✍️ - (most read) 3 - Alexie Sherman, 4 - Haruki Murakami; (new) Roberto Arlt, Carmen Maria Machado, Mervyn Peake, Darcie Little Badger.
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - electronic
Where You Read the Most 📍- everywhere, except work
At least so far! :)
Please try to keep your snapshots to 280 characters or less. It's one of the more interesting things about this call-forth, imo.
Top Genre 📚 - specficTop Books 📖 - [secret], Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Most Reread Books 📖 - Hamster Princess
Top New Authors ✍️ - Clarissa Goenawan, Jenn Reese
Most Read Authors ✍️ - Alexis Hall, Ovidia Yu
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - audio
Where You Read the Most 📍- home
Top Genre 📚 - SF&FTop Books 📖 - Supreme Ambition,The Silmarillion,Unfinished Tales,The Grief of Stones,The Long Tomorrow
Top Authors ✍️ - Tolkien
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - paper
Where You Read the Most 📍- futon near bookshelves
I love thisTop Genre 📚 - Fantasy
Top Books 📖 - Empire of gold, Nevernight (series), Heir of fire
Top Authors ✍️ - Shannon A. Chakraborty
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - Kindle
Where You Read the Most 📍- Home
Top Genre 📚 Fantasy; SapphicTop Books 📖 Bone Shard 1&2, Legends&☕️, Delilah Green, Sea of Tranquility, 7 Husbands..., Last Night at the Telegraph Club, ♀️ were 🐉
Top Authors ✍️ Becky Chambers, Nghi Vo, Andrea Stewart, Tasha Suri, Katherine Addison
Top Reading Medium ebook/🎧
👏👏 to Mel and Nelle for using emoji to make their entries fall within the character count. I might have to fall back on that if I find a new favorite in December and want to edit mine 🤔
*high fives Nelle*BTW I'm loving all the sapphic reads. My hold on Legends & Lattes finally came in so I'm reading that now.
Top Genre 📚 - FantasyTop Books 📖 - The Way of Kings, The Shadow of What Was Lost and The House in the Cerulean Sea
Top Authors ✍️ - Brandon Sanderson and Victoria Schwab
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - Kindle
Where You Read the Most 📍- Home
I'll play!Top genre: Nonfiction
Top books📖 :
*(top scifi so far... not top book)Top authors: Jhumpa Lahiri, Sean Carroll, Clint Smith
Top reading medium: 🎧/kindle
Where you read most: eye reading- 🛁(tub) 🎧 - walking the dog🐕
I copied and pasted this emoji: 📍but I don’t know what it is. can someone explain?
Stephen wrote: "I copied and pasted this emoji: 📍but I don’t know what it is. can someone explain?"a pin on a map =-)
Top genre: Fantasy, Science & TechnologyTop books: Station Eternity, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Top authors: Nghi Vo, T. Kingfisher
Top reading medium: Ebook, 🎧
Where you read most: Home, Walking
Top Genre 📚 SFFTop Books 📖 Preludes&Nocturnes Watership Down, A Door Into Ocean, Fellowship of the Ring, 📖 of Gothel, Irregular Witches, Change Sings, Wizard’s guide to Defensive Baking
Top Authors 📝T. Kingfisher
Top Reading Medium 🎧audio
Where You Read the Most 📍Home/Car
Top Genre 📚 – Fantasy by far, then SciFi & MysteryTop Books 📖 – The Spare Man, Sorcerer to the Crown, Firekeepers Daughter, Braiding Sweetgrass, Psalm for the Wild Built
Top Author ✍️ - Seanan McGuire most read
Top Reading Medium 🤓 – paper & CD
Where You Read the Most 📍- sofa & car
(I may have to revise this later in the month)
Top genre: SF&FTop Books: Head On, Urchin of the Riding Stars, 11/22/63, Big Little Lies, A Light in the Attic, The Man Who Spoke Snakish, Playing with Myself, The Silmarillion
Top Authors: N. Novak, J. Butcher,
Top Reading Medium: 🎧,e📕
Where you read the most: 🏡, 🚗
Top Genre 📚 - Historical FictionTop Books 📖 - "The Diamond Eye" by Kate Quinn; "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch
Top Authors ✍️ - Mary Kingswood, Lindsey Davis
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - audiobook
Where You Read the Most 📍- home (in bed)
Top Genre: SFFTop Books: Nettle & Bone, The Hands of the Emperor, Perhaps the Stars, The Dragon Waiting, The Golden Enclaves, Call of the Bone Ships
Top Authors: Tchaikovsky, Bujold, T. Kingfisher
Top Reading Medium: Kindle
Where You Read the Most: Home/Commute
Top Genre: SFFTop Books: The Expanse series
Top Author: James S.A. Corey
Top Reading Medium: Paper/Kindle
Where You Read the Most: couch
Was waiting to be on a computer to contribute to this one! Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy
Top Books 📖 - Borders of Infinity, How High We Go in the Dark, and The Devourers
Top Authors ✍️ - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Simon Jimenez
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - kindle
Where You Read the Most 📍- home
update: Top Genre 📚 – Fantasy tops, then SciFi & Mystery
Top Books 📖 – The Spare Man, Sorcerer to the Crown, Firekeepers Daughter, Braiding Sweetgrass, Psalm for the Wild Built, Station Eternity
Most Read Author ✍️ - Seanan McGuire
Top Reading Medium 🤓 – 📖 & 💿
Where You Read the Most 📍- 🛋 & 🚗
We have a couple more weeks until the end of the year. Keep 'em coming!
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How High We Go in the Dark (other topics)The Devourers (other topics)
Borders of Infinity (other topics)
The Hands of the Emperor (other topics)
The Dragon Waiting (other topics)
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It was challenging and fun for me to come up with this super-brief overview of my 2022 reading year:
Top Genre 📚 - Fantasy
Top Books 📖 - Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (series), Brideshead Revisited
Top Authors ✍️ - Tamsyn Muir, Kate Elliott
Top Reading Medium 🤓 - paper
Where You Read the Most 📍- work (sadly)
Share your own reading year in 280 characters or less, including spaces and emoji, if you like! I'm interested in seeing what others have to say. :)
If you are on Twitter, it would also be gracious to engage with @menwritewomen's tweet in some way, even if it's just a like, since it was the inspiration for this post.