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Ten Most Read Authors

I was tagged by the lovely @dauen! Thank you!

What are your ten most most read authors? And how many books have you read by them? Also tag someone who you would like to do this!

Instructions: scroll to the bottom of your goodreads shelves and most read authors is listed underneath.

Note: my Goodreads is woefully neglected and hasn't accurately represented what I've read for years. As such, I've had to look back through YEARS of journals and my bookshelves, so this might be a bit incorrect due to human error.

Terry Pratchett (36)

Pratchett is the author I expected, I've ALMOST finished Discworld (I'm saving the rest for miserable days) and Pratchett almost warrants his own bookcase never mind shelf!

William Shakespeare (26)

Much like Pratchett I'm not surprised. This includes a lot of the plays, plus the sonnets, The Phoenix and the Turtle, Rape of Lucrece, and A Lover's Complaint. I need to restart my monthly reading of Shakespeare but I fell off because the next one on my list was Merry Wives of Windsor and I LOATHE Falstaff with every fiber of my being...

Brandon Sanderson (19 or 21 depending if you count Wheel of Time)

I'm half in disbelief and half not surprised in the slightest. The worst part of this is that I don't really like Sanderson outside of Stormlight! I NEED to sort out my priorities!

Gail Carriger (18)

I'm surprised I've read so many but Carriger is a FANTASTIC comfort read/fluffy fun author.

Robin Hobb (16)

Another given as I've read the entire Realm of the Elderling, including the novella, except Assassin's Fate because I hated Fitz and the Fool. Still bitter about the last trilogy.

Robert Jordan (14 or 11, depends if you count the Jordan & Sanderson)

I have no explanation for how I finished Wheel of Time but I did and that almost guaranteed Jordan a place on this list.

J.R.R. Tolkien/Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (14)

If we counted rereads I think Tolkien would win by a mile 😅 however, this counts the 5 main works, the 3 great tales, unfinished tales, and a handful of his other works.

Euripides (11 plays and a lot of fragments)

I'm in shock however I did read A LOT of Euripides for an ancient Greek module in my 3rd year at undergrad.

Rick Riordan (11)

Percy Jackson as a teenager 🤷‍♀️

George R.R. Martin (7 or 9)

This slot could've been filled by SO MANY authors, particularly classic authors, I've read 7 books by... Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Wilde, etc. However, I chose Martin because of how many times I've reread his books and we can technically split A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms into 3 novellas to say I've read 9 books instead of 7.

This was very interesting! And surprising how this list compares to my top 10 authors. There's not THAT much cross over! Some of that is because those authors just haven't written as much but for others it's just my own reading habits.

I'm tagging @oneardentstudybuddy, @dooareyastudy, and anyone else who feels like doing this.

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hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

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Went to my local baker this afternoon and she asked if I'm okay because I look so stressed and unwell... I guess that's how my life is going right now...

On the plus side I FINALLY booked my mini-break to Bath and I'm going to the Hay Festival for a few days. So at least I managed to make myself schedule some time out next month.

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Tag the ONE character that is the most just like you fr

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poll plagiarism <3

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Books of 2024 - January, February and March

I may have been absentee but I have read a fair bit during the last few months. There's too many here to do reviews but I'm always happy to discuss my thoughts if anyone is interested.

January

The View from the Cheap Seats - Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

Epic of Gilgamesh - Anon

A Brightness Long Ago - Guy Gavriel Kay

February (or the month I went mad)

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury - Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin - Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight - Maas

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien

Before They are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie

March

Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie

The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson

The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay

Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett

Not many classics are coming through, although I think April will make up for the deficiency at this rate... I may have read too much fantasy and it's making me a bit loopy.

The standout for the first quarter of the year was definitely The Lions of Al-Rassan. I knew I'd love this book but I needed to find the right time, well March was that time and I'm absolutely obsessed. I may even love it more than Tigana?! Time will have to tell but I'm so glad I've finally finished it and I'm looking forward to a reread in the future.

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09.04.2024 - Finishing my reread of Emma and updating my journal! Emma has been such a comfort over the last few evenings as we've had a very difficult time. Falling into her world for a few hours has been like heaven and I'm so glad I decided to come back when everything else has felt quite bleak. I'm slightly worried about what I'm going to do when I have finished because nothing else is "sparking joy".

Currently reading: Emma by Jane Austen; Grand Conspiracy by Janny Wurts; The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Goodreads has just told me I've read Emma 7 times in 4 years... I definitely have a problem... And that doesn't even count the times I've picked up a copy and read my favourite scenes on a whim

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as someone who can have two cups of black tea several hours apart (never even one caffeinated coffee!) and then if i dare to venture any further i’m a jittery dizzy wreck who can’t sleep, i am so curious about how other people’s bodies handle this substance!

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Photos here!

I just spent too much money on a vintage edition of Emma but I'm SO EXCITED for it to arrive! Pictures will be following.

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Emma by Jane Austen - Illustrated by Hugh Thomson (1896)

She's here, I'm so excited! I spent too much money (well not as much as I could) but I managed to snag a 1896 copy of the Hugh Thomson illustrated edition of Emma. Apart from the spine she's in a relatively good condition for her age and is very much readable if I felt so inclined - I have no intentions considering this is my 8th copy of Emma. Anyway here's the promised photos.

I love the catalogue at the back to advertising what Macmillan had for sale in 1896, and the tiny ticks that clearly mark books the original owner (Henrietta) either bought or wanted.

My only real complaint is I couldn't afford the fancy edition with the gold gilding, this one:

But even my bad financial decisions can only go so far (one day I'll find one I can afford!) In the end though it doesn't really matter and I'm very, very pleased with my latest edition to my growing collection of Emma. Next on my list is a copy with the C. E. Brock illustrations!

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SHE'S HERE! PICTURES COMING TOMORROW 🥳

I just spent too much money on a vintage edition of Emma but I'm SO EXCITED for it to arrive! Pictures will be following.

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I just spent too much money on a vintage edition of Emma but I'm SO EXCITED for it to arrive! Pictures will be following.

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it's definitely my predisposition to extreme frugality+redneck engineering, but i'm now obsessed with creating things literally without buying Anything. no supplies no tools no nothing, only the stuff you can just find outside, like Plants, Sticks, and Rocks.

I'm making textiles with nothing but foraged plant materials using no tools except sticks. Nature allows you to do this! There's no rules! I mean okay well maybe there might be some rules sometimes but they're just weak human rules! The plants themselves? They're like "Why sure! You can make yarn with nothing but fibers from the dead stem I don't need anymore, a couple sticks from that tree over there, and your own body and mind! Why not?"

Plants like to give us gifts! And nobody has the power to stop them!

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