2016 in Books

I know, I know.... It's practically May and I'm just getting to a "year in review" post.

What can I say..... [except "you're welcome"]

Sorry about that.  Moana has taken over my house.  Big time.

Anyway.

In 2016--

I read 113 books.

Which added up to 26,747 pages.

My shortest book was Two For Joy, at just 96 pages.

My longest book was Last Chance Llama Ranch at 496 pages.

Super Lexi was my book read with the highest GoodReads rating (4.98 stars).

Imagine That was my least popular as far as GoodReads readers go-- only 8 other people read it in 2016.

Girl at War, on the other hand, was read by over 76,000 other people.

I read 20 Reader's Choice books. (I think.... lol)

Have y'all ever looked at your Year in Books on GoodReads?  That's where I got the fun facts.  It's pretty cool.

This year I've read 40 books so far.... I think 12 Reader's Choice.

It's shaping up to be a good reading year.

2011 In Review

Total Books for 2011: 158

Books actually read: 154
DNFs: 4

Best months: January (25) and December (24)
Worst months: May (1), April (5), June (6)
Biggest copout month: November (7 books... or 4 books and three read twice.  Whatever, it was NaNo.)

Ebooks: 1  (I don't do ebooks)

Library: 102
Nancy Drews: 23 (finishing the challenge from 2010)
Reader's Choice: 25 (wow, really?  lame)
Book Club: 10 (out of 11, that's not too bad)
Virtual Book Tour books: 9
Tribute Book Tour books: 4... or 5? 
Random "for review" books: 13
Great Reads for Girls books: 2 (read by Boo, 1)
Local Author books: 4 (wow, again, LAME)
Beehive Nominees: 4 (not including picture books)

(Really none of this is including picture books.)

I reached my goal of 150 books.  That's all that matters, right? lol

2010 Year in Review

Since I skipped a couple of month-in-review posts, here's a quick summary--

November-- 13 books read, 7 were rereads and 3 were Nancy Drews... 1 VBT and 7 were library books

December-- 15 books read, 7 were Nancy Drews, 13 library and 2 received for review

So, here's a look back at the year 2010, by the numbers:

152- the number of books I read
+  2- that I sort of read
+  1- which I totally didn't get past like 30 pages in
=
155 books

120- the number of library books
+10- the number of books/ARCs for review (that's read, not received)
+11- the number of Virtual Book Tour books
=
19- The approximate number of books that were ones I own (not including received for review) (yeah, okay, I skipped some of the math.... never was good at showing all my work)

6- the number of Book Group books I actually read.... this isn't as bad as it seems, there were only 8  I still haven't gotten to the other 2

11- number of books that were rereads

Now let's review the challenges I participated in (or didn't, whichever)

Support Your Local Library-- 120 books!!  Woohoo!  That's 20 over my goal!  I plan to shoot for over 100 again this year.

Nancy Drew Challenge-- 32/56  Could be worse.  I've read one more since.  I plan to finish this up in the next couple months

Take Another Chance Challenge-- Let's face it, I bombed.  I read 2 whole books.  Oh well.

Shelf Discovery-- 2 again.  Yup, I suck at this whole challenge thing.

Support Your Local Authors-- 11 which isn't too bad, but with soooooo many amazing authors here it's shameful, really.  I WILL do better this year.

Reader's Choice Challenge-- 34  Not bad, but not amazing.  I did really well the second round after not doing too well the first round.  This year will be better!

My only other goals for the year-- DO NOT join a bunch of challenges! lol
And keep better track of books/ARCs received for review...

Anybody have a good system for that?  My "throw them on a shelf" technique leaves much to be desired. :D