I ran across this, I forget how, but tell me how cute is she? I think it is the accent! I just love watching her videos! I’ll be stuck watching these for the rest of the week now!
Category: reading
What’s This?!
This is my new blog to post about the books that I am reading. I’ve been thinking of doing something like this for years and now finally here it is. I’ll be writing about the books I’m reading and writing reviews for those that I finish. More detail is on my about page. I read a lot so hopefully there will be lots of content on here. I read 87 books last year, let’s hope I can hit 100 in 2016!
I’ve been trying to hit 100 for years. I almost got there in 2011 and I’m very excited to write about all the books I experience this year!
The Best Books I Read in 2015
Just as in previous years I’m writing a post about the books I read in 2015. I read 87 books in total, below is the breakdown. This year I’m adding a few metrics which I think will be interesting. Like, how much I saved by borrowing books from the library ($807.40) and what percentage of the authors I read were men (67%).
Fiction was the majority of my reading at 60%. Fantasy (20%) and Science Fiction (21%) being the largest portion of all genres. Read a few series this year, meaning I read 8 books by Holly Black (Spiderwick Chronicles), 3 from C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia), 2 from Timothy Zahn (The Thrawn Trilogy) and 2 Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson). Paperback was the least popular binding at on 17% of my reads.
Most of my books came from the library (37%). Longest audio book I listened to was Capital at 1,503 minutes (25 hours), shortest was The Hamburger: A History at 180 minutes (3 hours). Total audio listening was 11,751 minutes (196 hours, 8.2 days).
Longest book I read was Hadoop in Practice (536 pages), which was for a class and I didn’t read every page. Next was All the Light We Cannot See at (530 pages). Shortest was 30 pages, a short story called Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo. In all I read 14,560 pages.
The longest it took me to get through a book was Capital (195 days), Michelle and I listened to it in the car. Shorts books included a lot of the Spiderwick Chronicles, in all I finished 12 books the same day I started them.
I finished the most books in July (20). The most popular book (according to goodreads) I read was The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The least was Valkyrie.
So how does this year compare to previous years? Well, I read the most I have in the past 3 years, but still not as much as 2011, when I read 96 books. That big 100 is still just out of reach. Maybe this year…
Some of my favorite books of the year were:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason