Year End Summary… In Progress

Thoughts

Hello.

I do not understand why goodreads says I read 91 books when I can only count 86. Or 87. Goodreads counted the audio and print as two separate books for Orlando. OK, I’ll go with that, I guess¹.

But then I feel like a cheat.

And a fraud.

But I don’t have time for this!²  So let’s just go with 90 as a round up.  (I stopped updating my google doc of my crazy book tracking spreadsheet back at book #37 in May)

Goodreads says I gave 16 books 5 stars, 41 books got 4, 28 got 3 and 4 got 2. I actually awarded one book a 1 star.

Pie chart! 

I balanced the formats of how I digest a book:  Tradeback won with 25 and electronic (Kindle) books were at 23. I enjoyed 19 Audiobooks which seems to justify my purchasing the one book a month from Audible… I read 3 paperbacks and enjoyed 17 hardcovers – mostly from the library, but I don’t have that data easily pie-chartable.

Do know that some of these counts include books that I both read in print AND listened to via audiobook format. Just sayin’.

Genre is another thing I have a tough time tracking. But I do love the variety of books I read – I read books all over the sprectrum and yet I know I miss a few things, too. I didn’t read any graphic novels. I read some sci-fi but only if it was a part of the TOB. We’ll save the TOB for another post. For now, let’s just put up the pie charts!

Fiction 66, nonfiction 20.

I did this better last year, but I didn’t have a job (I did but I had a long Christmas break then) and I also had a computer that was faster and less annoying and I also knew where my last year’s paperwork was. #whining (#ugh). ALSO, I had time ALONE. You wouldn’t believe how many times my husband has asked me “What ARE you doing?!”)

PIE. Are you here for the pie?!  I also don’t have a quick hit report to run to find these numbers, either. I am accessing the PIE category on goodreads for books read in 2017 and using that count. (Actually, I didn’t…) My OCD tendencies want to verify this count with every post (but I didn’t DO reviews the second half of the year so raspberries to that) and … oh, you get the picture. Do tell me again that there is no book-blog-police checking the accuracy of my work. Also, you now see why I’m not an accountant…

We could well say this blogging/reading year was a first-half-of-the-year compared to the second-half. Lots happened in June that give us a clear definitive line of habits and processes. Shrug, OK. whatever. I’m still adjusting to be honest, but do know that reading will always be a constant. It just evolves, yes?

Of the posts/books that I kept the pie/no-pie data check going, I found 34 that mentioned pie.

Finally, here is my happiest pie memory from 2017 – it happened during the readalong for The Bone Clocks.  Just click and read my post I wrote during the Twitter exchange.

Happy New Year!  more stats fun to happen soon….

 

 

 

 

1 – I couldn’t get into Orlando. The audio was hard. The print version was overwhelming. I know it is probably most-awesome but I wasn’t in the right space at the time…

2 – whine whine whine. My word for the year coming up! (“Reset”)

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