Reaching 1000 reviews

This morning's review was the 1000th on the blog. I've just spent a little while looking at the stats - which given the day job I'm inclined to do. It's taken 502 weeks to reach 1,000 books (all reviews available here), which is pretty much spot-on averaging two books a week (1.99). The books total some 325,846 pages according to Goodreads (though a couple are missing page counts in their database), or just shy of 93 pages per day. Both of those seem about right, with some fluctuation across weeks and days.

Of the books, 883 were fiction and 117 non-fiction. 128 were by Irish authors. 166 were historical fiction set between 1930-1960. I bought nearly all of them, with a handful being review copies and a dozen or so gifts - I'm happy to make sure authors get some royalties and I don't want to feel obliged with respect to what I'm reading. I'll give a breakdown of location later in the week, but via the fiction I visited 75 countries, and a few more via non-fiction.

Here are some graphs from Goodreads (click to enlarge).

Books per year

Pages per year

Books per month

 

Pages per month

 

Lazy Sunday Service

Happy new year!  I hope that 2017 brings you success and happiness.  As has been the case for the past few years, my aim is to reduce just about everything work-wise and to get better at saying 'no' to requests.  I usually also say that I plan to cut back on reading and to spend more time writing.  I do want to spend more time writing in 2017, but I want the time to come at the expense of travel instead of reading (which seems to be pretty consistent regardless of whatever else is going on).

Following Bernadette at Reaction to Readings love of charts, here is my reading year, with comparison to the previous six (culled from Goodreads). It seems that I am pretty consistent at roughly two books a week, though 2016 saw a surge in pages read on 2015 (over 5k more), averaging just under 100 pages a day.  I'm a bit surprised by that as I didn't feel I was reading more than usual.  I'll post my best of list during the week, as well as list of all the countries/fiction I literary travelled to.

My posts this week
Review of The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh
Review of Holding by Graham Norton
Review of Crimea by Orlando Figes

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