Another year has passed. I'm trying not to make any sudden movements lest I spook the new year*. This year we had some changes including deciding we needed some more space (turns out the not-so-little monster is an outdoor child, something our townhouse didn't have much of) and a number of changes and uncertainty at work that have been, less than fun.
*NOTE! I wrote this over the weekend and apparently did spook the new year because we're starting it with the little one home with COVID. Luckily, he is asymptomatic (we'd never have known if someone in his class hadn't tested positive so we were testing him before sending him back to daycare) and so far (knock on ALL THE WOOD) we're testing negative. Fingers crossed it stays this way. Thanks, 2023.
I see looking at my year end post from last year I said I wanted to start a new hobby. Well, why don't we make that a resolution for this year as well, since I didn't exactly manage to hit it in 2022. I would say work on this blog some more but honestly, I know the mental energy this takes and the mental energy I have at the end of the day (hint, it's not much. There's a reason I'm currently watching reruns of Fraiser)
I still don't have infographics for the year end because as with last year, I'm pretty sure you have to pay for those, but only pretty sure because I haven't bothered to look into it. I mean, the only posts I managed this year were the month end posts, though I did keep up with the mini reviews each month, so that's something. But I do have the stats for this year and I can compare them to my historic averages (2013-2021). Won't that be fun?
Total books read
54 - made it to my goal of 52 books
Historic average: 52.7
Year with the most books: 2019 (58 books) / Year with the fewest books: 2016 & 2018 (48 books)
Total pages read
17,765
Historic average: 17,604
Year with the most pages: 2013 (21, 681) / Year with the fewest pages: 2018 (13,525)
Month with the most / fewest books read
November, December (6 books) / May, July (3 books)
Historic average: every month averages either 4 or 5 books
Month with most / fewest pages read
December (2,045) / May (1,021)
Historic average: September (1,687) / July (1,285)
Fiction
57%
Historic average: 59.9%
BIPOC authors
25%
Historic average: 17.5%
Female authors
61%
Historic average: 57.1%
Author's nationality
US: 65% (Historic average: 68.6%)
UK: 19% (Historic average: 20.0%)
Sweden: 4% (Historic average: 0.6%)
Singapore: 4% (Historic average: 1.3%)
Canada: 1% (Historic average: 1.9%)
Ireland: 1% (Historic average: 0.2%)
Japan: 1% (Historic average: 1.5%)
Malaysia: 1% (Historic average: 0% - new country!)
Mexico: 1% (Historic average: 0% - another new country except I already had it in my tracker so who knows)
Translation
6%
Historic average: 3%
Rereads
7%
Historic average: 20% - so this year I am way down from my normal. Not necessarily due to any conscious decision to read new stuff.
Book format
audiobook: 93% (Historic average: 34.4%)
paperback: 7% (Historic average: 28.4%)
Where'd I get the book
Library: 78% (Historic average: 18.6%)
Kindle/Audible: 9% (Historic average: 39.0%)
Indie: 9% (Historic average: 18.1%)
Gift: 2% (Historic average: 9.3%)
Decade published
1920s: 2% (Historic average: 1.1%)
2000s: 6% (Historic average: 17.3%)
2010s: 43% (Historic average: 59.9%)
2020s: 50% (Historic average: 5.7%)
Top Genres
Mystery: 24% (Historic average: 8.7%)
Science: 17% (Historic average: 4.5%)
Horror: 9% (Historic average: 9.0%)
History: 4% (Historic average: 4.0%)
Memoir: 4% (Historic average: 6.7%)
Resolution books
50%
Historic average: 48%
