Statistics Survey 2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! *blows party favor*

Yeah, anyway, I hope everyone had a blast last night and are looking forward to an awesome year!

Found this over at The Book Addicts Guide and me, being as totally obsessed with numbers and statistics as I am, decided immediately that I had to do this!

• Number of books read…
  • Under 250 pages (not including novellas): 19
  • Between 400-449 pages: 10
  • Between 450-499 pages: 8
  • Over 500 pages: 6
  • Over 1000 pages: Zero.
• Number of…
  • Audiobooks: 5
  • Re-reads: 4
  • DNFs (did not finish): Didn't keep track, but probably a dozen or more. (And this is coming from someone that, up until June of July had to finish the book.)
• Number of books rated…
  • Five Stars: 39
  • One/Two Stars: 33 (Though I do think there is a HUGE difference between these and they should be separated.)
• Number of authors met in 2015: Zero.
• Number of book events attended in 2015: Three - all online!
• Number of books you read in one day: 1 - I usually can't start and finish more than that a day. Unless we're talking manga? Then at least two.
• Number of books that made you cry: Uh... 1? Seriously, books practically never make me cry.
• Number of 2016 books you have on pre-order: None!

• Book read furthest away from home (vacation reads?): I don't go on vacation, so...yeah.
• Book that took you the longest to read: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
• Book that you personally connected with the most: Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury
• Book that made you love the villain: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Darkling is a villain, isn't he? Because, seriously, love!)
• Book you said you'd come back to but still haven't picked up again: Grimspace by Ann Aguirre 
• Book you read waaaay before it's publication date: I don't read ARC's.
• Book you read on your birthday: A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey
• Book with a character who shares your name: None that I read this year - but I've got a couple on my TBR! (Across the Universe by Beth Revis and Wolves by C. Gockel.)
• Book you weren't entirely truthful about when rating (Fluff up any ratings? Rated even though you didn’t finish?): I'm always 100% truthful when I rate books. Even if my opinion might change over time, when I rate it, it's exactly what I'm thinking and feeling at the time.
• Book you read in 2015 but already want to re-read: A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas (And I have plans to reread it before the release of the second book in February!)
• Book you borrowed from a friend a long time ago and still have: None!
• Book you wish you could go back and read for the first time again: Prudence by Gail Carriger
• Most books read by one author this year: 11! Lindsay Buroker/Ruby Lionsdrake (as the second is a pen name). And one of my favorite authors, to boot!

• Happiest & saddest: Happiest: Red Rope of Fate by K.M. Shea Saddest: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor (Maybe not sad, but definitely emotional.)
• Longest & shortest…
  • By page number: Longest: Winter by Marissa Meyer Shortest: Solstice Day Gifts by Lindsay Buroker
  • By title: Longest: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling by (32 letters, excluding punctuation) Shortest: Fire by Kristen Cashore (4 letters)
  • From buying to reading: Longest: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson  (Yes, I notice a pattern when it comes to this book.) Shortest: Winter by Marissa Meyer 
• Best & worst…
  • Average rating on Goodreads: Best: Winter by Marissa Meyer Worst: A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas (which was one of my best books of the year!)
  • Books you read/your rating: Best: (incoherent muttering and pleading about how I can't make a decision like this) Republic by Lindsay Buroker Worst: The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
  • Series enders: Best: Winter by Marissa Meyer Worst: The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross
• First & last…
  • Reads of 2015: First: Forged in Blood I by Lindsay Buroker Last: Crossing the Ice by Jennifer Comeaux
  • Books on your bookcase (1st book on the top left and last book on the bottom right): First: The Yellow Silk by Don Bassingthwaite Last: A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters (and, while they're not my favorites by the author, I totally love both of them!)
• Most disappointing & biggest pleasant surprise: Most disappointing: The Wondrous and the Wicked by Page Morgan Pleasant Surprise: A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas
• Fandom you joined & one you abandoned: Joined: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead fandom Abandoned: The Dusk Gate Chronicles by Breeana Puttroff fandom
• Series you picked up & series you quit: Started: The Fall of Ile-Rein by Martha Wells Quit: The Dusk Gate Chronicles by Breeana Puttroff
• Most lenient & harshest ratings: Lenient: A Match of Wits by Jen Turano Harshest: The Wondrous & the Wicked by Page Morgan
• Most hyped & furthest under the radar that you read: Most Hyped: Winter by Marissa Meyer (of course!) Under the radar: The Child Prince by Honor Raconteur

• Book you read that is red: The Vindico by Wesley King
• Starts with X, Y, or Z: None, though I do have a W, a few U's and several V's.
• Book you hugged when you finished it: The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines
• Book you wanted to throw across a room: Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith (it was actually the fantasy of ripping this book in half that got me through it)
• Food you craved while/after reading a certain book: While reading The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron I seem to recall wanting pots and pots of tea. Does this count?
• Book that became an instant go-to recommendation: The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
• Furthest out of your comfort zone: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (and, I'll admit, I had a total blast with it)
• Read on a recommendation (that you may not have picked up yourself): It wasn't exactly a recommendation, but I might never have picked Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead up if I hadn't known how much Veronika and Elizabeth liked it.
• Forced yourself to finish: Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier (and hated nearly every moment)
• Series or author's works you binged (whether all at once or throughout the year): The Paper Magician Trilogy by Charlie N. Holmberg

• First… 
  • Post of 2015: January Schedule (lol, back when I was actually doing schedules)
  • Review of 2015: Terrier by Tamora Pierce
• Last…
  • Post of 2015: Year End Survey
  • Review of 2015: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Number of posts in 2015: 259! Yay, go me!
• Number of reviews posted in 2015: 49! I posted nearly one a week!
• Least coherent review: I think The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells
• Post with the most views (posted in 2015): Top Ten Favorite TV Shows (this is a book blog and the most viewed post isn't even about books. Maybe this is telling me something?)
• Post you wish you could re-write: I really don't think there is any. I mean, there are some that I my not really agree with anymore, but I try my best to have the posts 'finished' before I post them.

And there we have my stats wrap up for the year! This was really fun to look through, comparing books and seeing what, exactly, I've done over the last year.