Only 47 Books This Year
I had so much
fun last January blogging about the 52 books I read in 2014 I wanted to repeat
the process. I had hoped to read another 52 books in 2015, but it didn’t work
out that way. I only got through 47 of them this past year, but reading 47 books
in twelve months is no small accomplishment.
Numbers
usually swim around in my head like a mass of frantic minnows in a fish bowl, still I
couldn’t resist the temptation to compare numbers between the past two years.
Here are a few of the statistics.
In 2014 my
busiest month was March where I read 7 and ½ books. August was my slowest month
I only got through one book. In 2015 the numbers were more spread out. In
January, June, August and December I got through 5 books while February, April,
July and November I only read 3.
One thing that
hasn’t changed is how diverse my reading tastes are. Here’s a break-down of
what genre’s I read this past year.
Memoirs and
Biographies: 4
Nonfiction/True
Crime Drama: 3
Children’s
chapter books: 5
Mainstream Fiction:
3
General Romance:
3
Mainstream
Christian Fiction: 2
Contemporary
Christian Romance: 4
And the genre
winner for most books read, Historical Christian Romance. This one is my
obvious favorite with a whopping 23 books. The break-down in this category is:
Books set in the
1700’s: 1
Books set in the
1800’s: 13
Books set in the
1900’s: 7
Books set
outside the USA in the 1900’s: 2
For the year
2016, we’re only as far as January, but I’m already wondering what the
statistics are going to look like next year.
