11 years. 1300 book reviews. 170 movies. 100 seasons of TV shows.

That’s so ridiculous when you write it out. It’s kind of neat how something builds up if you just keep doing it over time.

In any case, I enjoy collecting stats on various things and sharing them out. Both as a way to look back and remember for myself and in the hope that someone else finds it interesting and/or shares anything new/interesting I haven’t seen!

Overall this year:

• Read 298 books
• Watch 17 seasons of TV
• Watched 11 movies
• Played 227 different (85 new) board games a total of 1313 times
• Played 37 games on steam (24 new) and made it to 100% Achievements on 101 of them

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And so another year passes. I’ve been doing these for quite a while now 😄

…so I think perhaps you get the idea.

All together, I love collecting data and I find it interesting to take a moment to look through what all I’ve done in the year. And hopefully–you find it interesting as well!

Overall, it’s been quite a year for reviews! This year I

• Read 298 books
• Watch 17 seasons of TV
• Watched 11 movies
• Played 212 different (86 new) board games a total of 1521 times
• Played 47 games on steam

It’s so silly to see some stats like that. I love it. So let’s break it down a bit more!

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Another year’s over… and a new one just begun. In years past, I’ve done a seperate post for my 2021 Reading Retrospective and 2021 TV & Movies Retrospective, but… that seems silly. Let’s do them all together this year!

In summary:

• 126 total books: 40 graphic novels, 52 audiobooks, and 8 short stories / children’s books)
• 24 seasons of TV shows
• 31 movies
• 2245 (!) plays across 207 different board games, 88 of them new to me!
• 45 different games played on Steam, 29 of them new to me

I really should add board games and Steam games to my lists. Not sure how to do that though. We’ll see.

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Well. That was a year. Covid, take 2. A new job. A new baby. I didn’t quite make my 200 books this year (I didn’t quite even make it to 1/2 days), but that’s okay. I still read a giant pile. :D

Some stats:

• 179 books read: 1 every 2.04 days (almost!)
• 47,236 pages read: roughly 130 pages/day
• 29 audiobooks, 96 graphic novels, 18 children’s chapter books, 18 non-fiction
• 56 unique authors (top were Hajime Isayama, Patricia Briggs, Warren Ellis, and Neil Gaiman)
• 19 series (top were Attack on Titan, Mercy Thompson/Alpha & Omega, Sandman, and Runelords)

Shortest: The Shepherd's Tale with 56 pages, longest: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition with over 1000. That feels like cheating though, so let’s go with Rhythm of War at 1270 / Crafting Interpreters at 865. 😄

The most read book I read this year was 1984 with 5 million others reading it (on Goodreads alone; I was working on my earliest backlog). Least popular: Tales of Nezura: Book 1: The Zevolra with only 39. It … wasn’t bad. Give it a try?

Overall, I gave 119 five-star ratings, 45 four-star, 7 three-star, and less than 10 other ratings. I’ve come to the realization over the last year that I tend to like just about everything. Books in particular, they’re only on my list if I think I’d find them interesting, so of course, they’ll be rated highly…

Not bad.

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Well. That was a year. I went kind of nuts this year and read 239 books. Granted, that includes graphic novels (they’re shorter and read quickly, but they’re still definately books) and books I read with my children. But it’s still a total of 68k pages, averaging 285 pages per book. An average of 186 pages per day. Not bad at all. Some more statistics:

• 239 books, 95 non-graphic novels/children’s books
• 110 graphic novels, 120-371 pages, average was 174
• 34 children’s books, 48-352 pages, average was 163
• 26 audiobooks
• 31 different series, 27 books were not in a series
• 51 different authors, 24 had one book each, highest was 35 (Fables), average was 4.7 books / author

Not bad.

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Another year older and another year of reading. I set myself the entirely insane goal of 120 books this year–10 a month–almost one every three days. And for most of the year, I was actually hitting that goal. And then October hit, with a pile of birthdays. And November, with NaNoWriMo (still going strong at just over 120k words; I should be done in the next day or two). And then the holidays. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Not really an excuse. More of an explination.

Alltogether, I read 113 books this year. One of those I finished today…

I don’t think I’ll do that again next year. Perhaps we’ll go for 100 again and try to hold to ten books a year up through October. That seems much more manageable now…

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Another year of reading. Still not back to my glory days of 100 books in a year, but otherwise the second best I’ve done (beating out 91 in 2016!). A solid year. I’m going to see if I can purposely try to hit 100 again next year though. Should be doable.

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Another year of reading. I easily beat my official goal of 50 with 84 books (finished the last one) a few hours before the end of the year). Unfortunately, it still feels like something of a failure, down from my original 100 book year and last year’s 91. Yes, I’m just crazy enough that 84 books in a year feels like a failure. 😄

A few stats:

• The shortest book I read this year was The Eleventh Metal at 14 pages
• The longest was Beyond the Shadows at 689 pages
• My overall average was 338 pages per book and 77 per day
• My average rating was 4.5 with 14 three stars and 18 four stars (the rest were fives)¹
• I listened to 21 books on audiobook (all Discworld novels, so that’s almost my most by a single author or in a single series)
• I borrowed a good number of them from our local library system; Overdrive is wonderful

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Once again, a crazy goal. This year, I officially set a goal of 50 books. Unofficially, I was still trying to read 100 books. Almost made it.

Overall, I read 91 books, totaling 35,154 pages (an average of ~96 pages per day). Still a bit of a range on length, from The Nameless City at only 23 pages up to 995 in White Sand. An average of 386 per book comes in just 2 shy of last year, so I think the short stories still count. 😄

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