I struggled with my blogging in the second half of the year. I had a lot of books to read, and read them I did. My reading pace had not altered, but I ended up not posting reviews as regularly. I reviewed 296 books last year, a low from the previous few years. I did actually read more than that, but I felt like postponing the reviews was better than providing lacklustre ones, which clearly showed my poor writing than the quality of the book itself.
So after much hmming and hawing, I decided to stop where I could and apart from a scheduled post of flashback Friday, I did not venture near my blog for the start of the year. I want to start off with one of my favourite and more academic of my interests, the collation and depiction of my year in reading. I actually considered ditching it in its entirety, but that felt more like laziness than any other issue, so I persevered and am finally here with the stuff!
If you missed it, here are my long lists (I was genuinely relieved I did a decent job with this):
- 2022 Long List I: Inspirational and/or Informational
- 2022 Long List II:Series’ I started or Continued
- 2022 Long List III: Cozy reads of varying gravity
- Long List IV: Thrilling and Restless Reads
- 2022 Long List V: Highlights of my Blogging Year
My last years graphs are here:Mega Stats 2021!
My average rating stays at 3.6, just like last year, which is probably a big surprise!
The short stories were a good enough mix this year, 2 science fiction, 4 older mysteries (reprints),1 memoir and the other was a general fantasy-ish narration.
Non-audio pages read and reviewed: 82577 (obviously lesser than previous tallies)
| Nationality of author (on their profiles) | Male | Female | Multiple |
| American | 46 | 86 | 2 |
| Chinese American | 3 | ||
| Cuban American | 1 | ||
| Korean American | 1 | ||
| Vietnamese American | 1 | ||
| Native American | 1 | ||
| Angolan | 1 | ||
| Australian | 1 | 3 | |
| Belgian | 1 | ||
| British | 25 | 67 | 7 |
| British Indian | 2 | ||
| British Sri-Lankan | 1 | ||
| British-Nigerian | 1 | ||
| Canadian | 6 | 10 | |
| Danish | 1 | ||
| Dutch | 1 | ||
| French | 1 | 3 | |
| Ghanian | 1 | ||
| Haitian | 1 | ||
| Indian | 5 | ||
| Irish | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| Japanese | 2 | 2 | |
| Mexican | 1 | 1 | |
| Pakistani | 1 | 1 | |
| Polish | 1 | 1 | |
| Russian | 1 | 1 | |
| Slovenian | 1 | 1 |
| Translated language | No.of Books |
| Basque | 1 |
| Dutch | 1 |
| French | 4 |
| Polish | 1 |
| Portuguese | 1 |
| Welsh | 1 |
My audio time has increased a little as compared to last year: 273hours = 11 days and 9 hours. With my new knitting projects,I see an uptick in this for the future.
I read 7 Terry Pratchett books and 4 of Verity Bright. I thought I would make a list of any author I repeated, but it was too long to be interesting. I decided to do more than 3 books this year. Honourable mentions are Portia Mackintosh, Olivia Atwater, Patrick Ness and Sebastien De Castell, I read and reviewed three of their books.
115 books were part of a series, slightly lesser than last year (which would happen given the number of books read)
Multiple reprints once again made my list, I like using Netgalley to access such books!
Time period predominantly featured in the book:
Places where my books led me to:
The chart is more spread out compared to the previous years. I had 39 fantasy worlds(not all different from each other), 1 book at sea, 19 covered multiple countries. The rest are on the chart below:
Phew! I did it. I look forward to what this year holds for me. To people who still follow my blog, I will be posting several reviews in the coming month. For those who are new, welcome!
Happy new year! How was your year in books 2022? and what plans for this year. I would love to hear from people to gain a little more inspiration for 2023. Hope it brings something for everyone hoping for that something.
Superfluous Reading 
Nice stats, and I look forward to seeing your upcoming reviews. I know it can get hard to keep up – I can always manage two out of three of reading, reviewing and keeping up with other people’s blogs, it seems!
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That’s exactly how I feel! I want to bring all three on par with each other but im planning to be smarter about it this year
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