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!
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.