User Profile

Jayp

jayp@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years ago

I love to read but many of the books I 'read' these days are audio books because of how much I travel for work. My reading habits are a bit chaotic, and it seems I either binge a book in a couple weeks or take years of stopping and starting. However, since I started tracking my reading 5 years ago I've gotten much better at not leaving books on the back burner. I love to learn about and read history, science fiction, biographies, essays, politics, philosophy, popular science, and more. Recently I've become interested in reading classics too.

I consider the day a book is acquired to be when I start reading it. This is mostly for motivational purposes, otherwise I will get distracted by new books. I will likely move away from this system in 2025.

I love the concept of Bookyrm, and after tracking my reading in spreadsheets for the past 5 years I have now moved it all to Bookwyrm.

This link opens in a pop-up window

Jayp's books

Currently Reading

2025 Reading Goal

5% complete! Jayp has read 1 of 20 books.

Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk (Hardcover, 2014, Jonathan Cape) 4 stars

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced …

When H is for Hawk was published ten years ago, I read a review that made an impression on me. Over the years, I kept putting off reading it and eventually stopped reading anything as life got busier. I even forgot why I wanted to read it in the first place. Recently, I considered giving away my used library hardback copy, but instead, I decided to start reading, and I'm really glad I did.

For me, H is for Hawk is one of those books I might have liked when I was younger, but I definitely wouldn't have appreciated or been impacted by as much as I am now that I've lived more. It's been a while since I've been so emotionally involved with a book.