I’ve been wanting to break ‘radio silence’ for some time and get back into posting to my blog at least semi-regularly, hoping that there are still some of you out there reading!

So, inspired by Laura at Reading in Bed and Rebecca at Bookish Beck who participated in a meme started by Carrie at Pickle Me This (whew!), I was curious to know just where the books I read come from.

Here are the statistics for my last 30 reads:

Public Library: 18 books 60%

• Fire Burn by John Dickson Carr
• A Different Pond by Thi Bui
• Replay by Ken Grimwood
• Detective Gordon: The First Case by Ulf Nilsson
• Deadly Appearances by Gail Bowen
• Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• If This is Freedom by Gloria Ann Wesley
• Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
• The Longest Night by Andria Williams
• The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
• The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout
• Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb
• Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
• The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright
• Mud Season by Ellen Stinson
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer

Purchased eBooks: 4 books 13%

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander
• Send in the Clowns by Julie Mulhern
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

NetGalley or LibraryThing Early Reviewer: 3 books 10%

• The Fight That Started the Movies by Samuel Hawley
• The Shoe on the Roof by Will Ferguson
• Remember My Beauties by Lynne Hugo

eBook Freebies through BookBub or Riffle: 3 books 10%

• Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
• Circle of Influence by Annette Dashofy
• Live Free or Die by Jessie Crockett

On my shelf – Purchased new, but at a discount store: 1 book 3%

• The 12 Bottle Bar by David Solmonson and Lesley Jacobs Solmonson

Scribd.com: 1 book 3%

• Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

There are no surprises there for me except for the number of eBooks that I actually paid for. I blame a reading challenge that required books that my public library didn’t have.

I really have to stop reserving library books and work at reading from my own shelves.

How about you? Do you rely heavily on your public library?