Hello!

I consider myself a slow-to-medium reader and although it feels like the entire of BookTok reads a million books a day, I’m 90% sure that not everyone reads that fast so I thought I’d show you what a relatively average reading week looks like for me!

On Monday I read 40 pages of ‘Things We Never Got Over’ by Lucy Score – I was aiming for 50 pages a night but I was really sleepy so I reached the end of a chapter and couldn’t keep my eyes open so that’s as far as I got. I’d had a busy day visiting a friend and doing three hours of driving with my partner and then playing video games in the evening so I was ready for sleep!

Then on Tuesday I had a medical appointment that I was nervous about (so I didn’t sleep that well in the end anyway), but it was a half hour drive to get to the health centre so that leant itself nicely to finishing off the audiobook of ‘The Golden Enclaves’ by Naomi Novik, the last book in the Scholomance trilogy. I’m not entirely sure how I finished 114 minutes in two thirty minute drives with a detour to Tesco but without that detour, I wouldn’t have finished the book! Thinking about it now I have absolutely no idea what I did that afternoon but I must have gone to bed relatively early because I managed to read 84 pages of ‘Things We Never Got Over’! At this point it was really picking up and I only put it down because I couldn’t keep my eyes open.

On Wednesday I had a gloriously chilled day where I even managed to read a little in bed before I started my day, clocking in an early 27 pages of ‘Things We Never Got Over’. Then I started to try and do something productive with my day but I couldn’t stop thinking about Knox, Naomi and Waylay so I read another 46 pages in the afternoon before my husband got home from work and then I warned him before we went to bed that there was a chance I would accidentally stay up late until I finished the first in the Knockemout series… and I did – 138 pages I felt a physical pain in my chest because wow what a whirlwind. I absolutely adored it (though the second epilogue was a bit stereotypical) and to actually calm down I had to start our book club pick for June ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ by Mark Manson to calm me down and it only took 14 pages (totalling at 225 pages for the day, which is insane).

On Thursday morning, I managed another 26 pages of ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck’ (which I think may already be changing my life) and then I managed a more productive afternoon with some work and actually cooking dinner and such. Then I got sucked into watching Gilmore Girls until late but I managed to start the Lucy Score sequel ‘Things We Hide From The Light’. Not to sound like a broken record, I was shattered so I only managed 16 pages.

I’m not sure how, but on Friday morning I slept until approximately 11.30am and I’m not convinced I ever woke up. By the time I dragged myself out of bed, put real clothes on and got myself some lunch I still hadn’t woken my brain up so I sat on the sofa and somehow turned on Gilmore Girls and then I never moved… but by the time I did drag myself upstairs to bed, I sat in what I call ‘The Library’ (more accurately known as the spare room with all my bookshelves) to read 36 pages of ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ then getting into PJs and cosying into bed to read 56 pages of ‘Things We Hide From The Light’ which I already have a lot of opinions on, but I’ll save that for another post.

So in total, I read 483 pages and listened to 114 minutes.

But even then, I wouldn’t say that’s my average because I don’t normally read two physical books at a time, I don’t tend to read as much as quickly as I did with ‘Things We Never Got Over’ but it’s a book I rated 5 stars that really sucked me in. Sometimes I don’t have any driving time to listen to audiobooks, sometimes I have some long drives or I listen whilst I’m designing my monthly bullet journal pages but that only happens (surprisingly) once a month. There are so many contributing factors that, I suppose, mean there is no such thing as average!

Regardless, here’s my insight into how much I read in a week as someone who only tends to read in bed in the evenings but doesn’t work a solid hours 9-5 office job. Don’t know if this was insightful or useful to anyone, but I enjoyed tracking it! I’ve decided I’m going to start making ‘how much I read in a week’ videos a regular thing on my tiktok so if you did enjoy this post, do head on over!

Thank you for reading,

Sophie xx