A Year in the Library - Stats

I'm going to post two A Year in the Library posts, one with stats, one with more of a reflection how the year has gone for me. Here then are the stats for the year (with the 2013 stats to compare). These are all taken from the excel spreadsheet I use to track my reading during the year (and yes I have an excel spreadsheet I use to track my reading! :)) :
 

Reading

 
Month by Month

Month	N° of Books 2014	N° of Books 2013
January	32	21
February	28	22
March	29	33
April	25	30
May	20	21
June	24	18
July	21	21
August	26	27
September	24	28
October	29	20
November	34	21
December	23	22
Total	315	284

Most months I read more than in 2013 and overall I had a jump of about 30 books between 2013 and 2014.

By Genre

Book Shelf	N° of Books 2014	N° of Books 2013
Fantasy	50	79
Sci-fi	94	75
Graphic Novel	33	49
Non-Fic	52	34
Horror	11	3
Crime & Thriller	36	33
Other	39	11
	315	284

A huge jump in sci-fi book read this year, mainly because I started another reread of Star Wars and Star Trek books. I may separate them out next year to get a better feel for exactly how much non-media related SF I read. Otherwise, I am really happy to have read so much non-fic and other (historical, literary, etc.) over 2014.

Number of 5 star books read: 40

Number of 4 star books read: 147

Number of 3 star books read: 118

Number of 2 star books read: 9

Blog

Number of books reviewed: 54
Number of Top Ten Tuesday posts: 22
Number of "in the Library" monthly review posts: 3
Number of New on the Library Shelves posts: 13

So a big improvement on last year in term of number of posts, but still not as good as I had hoped! :)

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2015

From the Broke and Bookish

This week's theme: Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2015. According to the girls over at the Broke and Bookish these could be either book related or blog related - I've gone mainly with blog related goals since this will be only my second year of doing this seriously. Look forward to reading every body else's!

 

Goals I control

1. Only request Netgalley or Edelweiss books I know I'm going to read
I have an absolutely horrendous ratio (especially on Netgalley) so this year I'm only going to request books I know I am going to read, ie books I have already got on my absolutely to be read list (ATBR :) )

2. Write a review for every book I read
My ratio of books read to reviews written this year is pretty bad, so even if I only write a small one paragraph review I want to be able to look back and read some thoughts on every single book I read.

3. Post more reviews to Goodreads and Amazon
I haven't posted nearly enough of my reviews to both sites this year so I want to improve on that next year!

4. Read all of the Goodreads Choice Awards nominees I have on my list
I have about 100 so I would like to get through all of these along with some older books and obviously the new releases

5. Do a Shannara Reread
I would love to do something along the lines of the Tor.com rereads (Wheel of Time and Malazan to name but a few) and have a weekly post discussing the chapters I have read. Whether I'll manage that or just do a book by book reread I'm not sure but either way I want to read the books!

6. Add fewer books to my TBR list
Every month I ended up with fifty or so releases on my TBR list, impossible to keep up with. I'd prefer to stay around 15 per month but will try and stick to no more than one book per day of the month at the least!

7. Comment more frequently on my favourite blogs
I have done better at this this year but I need to improve still!

8. Post more regularly on my own blog
If possible once a day but I want to at least make sure I don't leave more than two or three days go by without posting something

Goals outside of my control

9. Get a higher read count and more comments
I've been so happy and amazed at the regular visitors here throughout the year but I would obviously like that to continue and to get a few more regular comments

10. Get a few more followers
Same as above, I have gained one this year, which is fantastic, but I would love to get a few more in 2015!

Look forward to reading your goals and resolutions in the comments (see goal 9! :) ) Thanks to all the visitors here for making this a great year and here's to a greater 2015!

Showcase Sunday

A bit frazzled this weekend, so no time (or energy) to put up a full review. Thought I would try out a new meme and found Showcase Sunday, which seemed to be right up my alley.

SS is a weekly blog hop hosted by Vicky over at Books, Biscuits and Tea allowing bloggers to showcase what books and bookish things they have received in the past week.

This has been a pretty good week, including a few approvals from Netgalley for books I was looking forward to, so... :)

Here goes...

For Review:

Flirting with French by William Alexander
The Red Hot Fix by T.E. Woods
The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
The Buried Life by Carrie Patel

Bought:

Afterparty by Daryl Gregory
Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach
Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson
Lover at the Chameleon Club by Francine Prose
Buried Angels by Camilla Lackberg
She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

 

So what exciting finds/purchases have you received or made this past week?