Statistics about last year's reading

[shark_hat]

Books read: 334 (Mean per month: 27.8; mean per day: 0.92).
Most books in one month: Feb, 40; least books in one month: May, 9.

SF/F, 90
Non-fiction, 73
Mysteries, 61
YA, 44
Comedy, 37
(Other, 29- inc: children's, poetry, general fiction, etc)

(Categories are a bit fluid- eg, is Dirk Gently mystery, comedy or SF? So if I did this again tomorrow, the numbers would be slightly different, but they're indicative.)

Author with most books read: Mercedes Lackey. (*blush*)

Comments

A Lackey lackey?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, while that could be considered fairly shaming, in fairness, as a percentage, that's probably fairly low, given that Mercedes Lackey grinds out about a book a fortnight! Seriously, I'm convinced that she represents at least 20% of the Amazon list.

[mrslant]

A book a day? Where do you find the time?

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Dunno.
It's probably more like four or five books at the weekend and one or two over the rest of the week (on the commute and whatever), really. Probably not having the internet at home helps!

[mrslant]

No... Internet... at... home...??? *horror*

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

I know. The parents both have it, so it was a bit of a swine coming back after Christmas, suddenly I can't read Boingboing over the weekend...

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Another interesting thing might be re-reads vs. first time reads (perhaps by category- most of the mysteries were re-reads, for example), but frankly I can't be bothered.