While I would usually include other media in my annual statistics dump like I did last year I didn't watch much TV or see many films. The first TV episode I watched was in March, the second at the end of May. If we exclude marathons by friends and family in which I participated I watched 6 films, 10 shorts, and 79 TV episodes. 2 films I watched on a flight, 2 were Canadian indie films, and 2 were documentaries. The shorts were mainly Canadian. The TV episodes were unsurprisingly mainly split between Motive, The Newsroom, and Criminal Minds with a smattering of new discoveries: Happy Valley, The Bletchley Circle, and Countdown to Life. Since that pretty much covers most of the topics of interest I don't have any graphs, but don't worry I have a new book related chart to make up for it.
Reading wise I read 100 books in 2015, averaging 8.3 books and 2,560 pages per month. In 2015 my average book rating was 3.93 stars out of 5, with an average of 306.5 pages per book. Continuing with tradition an Outlander book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, was my longest book at 980 with my shortest being a collection of short stories (Poppies by Ulrica Hume) with 20 pages.
While Goodreads has a great infographic that sums up most of that, here's some new stuff: 69 books had female authors, 1 book had a transgender author, 28% had authors of color, 51 books were written by U.S. authors but only 29 were set in the U.S., the UK was the next most popular setting.
I reread only 3 books this year. I read 1 poetry collection, 8 graphic novels, no plays, and 4 short story collections, most of which were contemporary. Of the fiction books and short stories, 19 were young adult, 1 was middle grade, and 56 were adult. Ten of the books I read were nonfiction, 3 were classics. I read 24 physical books, 60 ebooks, and 16 audiobooks. Only 29 of the books I read were books or ebooks that I owned.
My most popular genre in 2015 crime and mystery (16) followed closely by fantasy (12). My least popular genres with one book each were American history and politics, economics, mental health, and disability. And because that wasn't nearly nuanced or specific enough I made up a ven diagram, while it doesn't show all of the thematic relationships between books (if someone has ideas on how to improve that let me know) it was an interesting exercise nonetheless.
Reading wise I read 100 books in 2015, averaging 8.3 books and 2,560 pages per month. In 2015 my average book rating was 3.93 stars out of 5, with an average of 306.5 pages per book. Continuing with tradition an Outlander book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, was my longest book at 980 with my shortest being a collection of short stories (Poppies by Ulrica Hume) with 20 pages.
While Goodreads has a great infographic that sums up most of that, here's some new stuff: 69 books had female authors, 1 book had a transgender author, 28% had authors of color, 51 books were written by U.S. authors but only 29 were set in the U.S., the UK was the next most popular setting.
I reread only 3 books this year. I read 1 poetry collection, 8 graphic novels, no plays, and 4 short story collections, most of which were contemporary. Of the fiction books and short stories, 19 were young adult, 1 was middle grade, and 56 were adult. Ten of the books I read were nonfiction, 3 were classics. I read 24 physical books, 60 ebooks, and 16 audiobooks. Only 29 of the books I read were books or ebooks that I owned.
My most popular genre in 2015 crime and mystery (16) followed closely by fantasy (12). My least popular genres with one book each were American history and politics, economics, mental health, and disability. And because that wasn't nearly nuanced or specific enough I made up a ven diagram, while it doesn't show all of the thematic relationships between books (if someone has ideas on how to improve that let me know) it was an interesting exercise nonetheless.
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