I'm back from a wonderful holiday vacation to Cancun, Mexico, and ready to write my year in review post 🙂 Here is how the year broke down book wise:
I read a total of 94 books in 2014, well over my goodreads goal of 75. Breaking it down by month we have the following:
January..........5 books
February..........6 books
March.............9 books
April............6 books
May............7 books
June...........9 books
July...........9 books
August.........5 books
September...........8 books
October...........8 books
November..........11 books
December..........11 books
As I would have expected, June and July were higher months, since I spend a lot of the summer at our beach house reading by the pool/ocean. November was high thanks to the Ho-Ho-Ho Read-a-thon I participated in, and I read 4 books during the week on was on vacation in December!
The three longest books I read were The Goldfinch (771 pages), Hello From the Gillespies (624), and All the Light We Cannot See (531 pages). Total pages read in 2014............31,406!
Here are my 5 star books for the year 2014:
Wow! I've read/enjoyed/loved six books on your list! Thanks for sharing your list Donna. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you also!!
What a great year! 96 books is impressive! Hope 2015 is just as wonderful and full of 5 star books.
Thanks Tanya! Hope to see you around Quail Ridge sometime next year (Diane Chamberlain for sure?). Happy New Year!!
I really want to read the Silent Sisters. I love Big Little Lies and Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands. I cannot keep track of # of pages read since I listened to so many audiobooks. You had an awesome year and that vacation sounds divine.
I had a couple of ebooks that were only published in the UK, that have a file size and no corresponding page number, so those could not be counted. If you keep track of your audiobooks on goodreads, you should be able to keep a tally of the number of pages read (I think when you add the book it totals the pages no matter what format you read?). Not that it makes that much of a difference, but it is fun to see how many pages you have at the end of the year. I'm sure your number would be huge with all the reading you do 🙂
It was a great year in books wasn't it? I only got that much reading done in December since I was on a beach vacation 🙂 I think I read 5 books during that 10 days. I haven't even finished half of one in January....oops!
94 books is amazing. I only managed 48 this year. Lots of things going on this past year.
I see you said you followed my blog. I saw it on a comment on Sheila's blog today. Thanks...enjoy your visit.
Your blog is fantastic!! I am going to follow you too. Be sure you followed my blogspot one and not the WordPress one that you may have been directed to. The Word Press one is inactive.
Happy New Year.
Giveaway going on at my blog for The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect if you want to stop.
Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
http://silversolara.blogspot.com
Thanks Elizabeth. I think I followed the right one, I used the link you posted instead of clicking on your name. I think 94 is my record number. It helps that my daughters are in high school now, they are much more self-sufficient, which leaves me more free time 🙂
I loved The Silent Sister and The Invention of Wings.
I also read The House We Grew Up In. It was good, but different. 🙂
Elizabeth
You've read some really good books! I want to read the Celeste Ng book this year.
It's a really good one 🙂