You can see my Goodreads Year in Review, but you can also take a look at my reading log which I'll be continuing in 2020. It has some fancy charts and will automatically compare the statistics for the two years. Again, I'm not logging audiobooks on the spreadsheet, because it messes with my average; audiobooks take me months to finish usually, and I like having just a couple of days on average per book.
This year I read in total 114 books, and 38,862 pages. This is a personal best since I started using Goodreads to log all of my reading. I'm over the moon with this result!
It took me on average 3.3 days to read each book, which is pretty good. The longest it took me to finish a book was 29 days, but most books I finished in less than a week. This gives me an average of 118 pages a day, which is pretty decent considering I don't read every day.
I read 39 books specifically for my degree, but my most read genres were fantasy and historical fiction. I'm slightly surprised by this, but I did read a few historical fiction series, so that explains it. While I do love historical fiction, it isn't really on my most loved genres.
There were six books at over a thousand pages each. This is a lot. I'm so happy with that! Most commonly I read books between 200 and 400 pages, which makes sense considering that is the average length of a book.
My best reading month was, by far, July. This was the month of #24in48 and I read 35 books in total that month. My worst reading month was December and I know why; I have been dealing with a lot of stress this month, and just didn't have the time or motivation to read books. An average of 10 books a month is pretty impressive to me.
I'm so proud of myself this year. I resumed my degree, I maintained relationships, and I was able to mostly take care of my mental health. Mostly. There were also victories to be celebrated this month.
I don't really have any major reading goals for 2020, but it is my dissertation year. While I'm excited to work on it, I'm a little nervous too.
I hope 2020 and the new decade allows a few more glimmers of hope to spread fully.
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