So… Happy New Year? Ish? I can honestly say that December has completely flown by, and suddenly I realised that *this* was probably the last book I would get to finish this year. In other words: time for a round-up!
What I read
A grant total of 195 books
Which, you have to admit – is kind of good, right?
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All together, I’ve read 140 new books, and 55 rereads. That comes down to an average of over 16 books per month! That’s one book every two days!
Fun fact: a majority of those rereads were actually the manuals I had to teach! And like 7 of the others were rereads of the Chrestomanci-series, which is honestly one of my favourite children’s series to reread as an adult 🙂
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All together, I read a grant total of 51 419 pages this year, or almost 4 285 pages per month. Again, if you do the math, that’s like 140 pages per day. Although, let’s be real: April and September probably had just a couple more!
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A completely different way to “count” my reading this year, is to look at the average ratings. I figure that there’s not a single month where the average rating of my reading goes below 3 stars out of 5, is probably a good sign, right?
Some other fun stats:
- 58 of the books (40.7%) I read this year were published in 2018
- 77 of the books (39.5%) I read this year were eBooks, 107 (54,9%) were paperbacks
- I read 75 books that belong to a series, accounting for a total of 32 different series!
- 70 of the authors I read this year, were female – that’s 69.3%!
- I read mainly books aimed at adults (131 books, or 67.2%) with a comparative low percentage for middle grade books (30 books, 15.4%); YA (23 books, 11.8%); and finally a meager 11 new adult books (5.6%) – although that’s the category I “should” be reading in according to my age!
In conclusion
All in all, I would actually say it’s been a pretty good reading year. Not only did I read a lot of books, I also managed to more consciously make time to read. That’s not something that is always easy for me (I like to be busybusy and in being so, I can forget to actually read). What’s more, I came across a couple of books that I absolutely loved and would count as part of my favourites now, and I also revisited some old favourites and enjoyed rediscovering them! All in all? Let’s go 2019!