Goodreads 2022 Challenge results
Jan. 6th, 2023 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrSo here are my totals for the year. I think it's rather impressive, if I do say so myself:
I think only three of these were audiobooks that I checked out of the library when I was recovering from my concussion in February—I ordinarily don’t do audiobooks at all. A number of these were novellas, so the number of works I’ve read looks high. Still, that’s a lot of pages. And it doesn’t even include the unpublished fanfiction I read this year or the unpublished manuscripts I was reading to review for other writers.
I read fast and I read a LOT. The three weeks in February that the concussion prevented me from reading were agony.
Edited to add: oh, interesting; I didn’t quite understand how unusual this, but I ran across this: The size of the American reading public varies depending on one’s definition of reading. In 2017, about 53 percent of American adults (roughly 125 million people) read at least one book not for school or for work in the previous 12 months, according to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Five years earlier, the NEA ran a more detailed survey, and found that 23 percent of American adults were “light” readers (finishing one to five titles per year), 10 percent were “moderate” (six to 11 titles), 13 percent were “frequent” (12 to 49 titles), and a dedicated 5 percent were “avid” (50 books and up).
I guess I can consider myself as "super avid."
I think only three of these were audiobooks that I checked out of the library when I was recovering from my concussion in February—I ordinarily don’t do audiobooks at all. A number of these were novellas, so the number of works I’ve read looks high. Still, that’s a lot of pages. And it doesn’t even include the unpublished fanfiction I read this year or the unpublished manuscripts I was reading to review for other writers.
I read fast and I read a LOT. The three weeks in February that the concussion prevented me from reading were agony.
Edited to add: oh, interesting; I didn’t quite understand how unusual this, but I ran across this: The size of the American reading public varies depending on one’s definition of reading. In 2017, about 53 percent of American adults (roughly 125 million people) read at least one book not for school or for work in the previous 12 months, according to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Five years earlier, the NEA ran a more detailed survey, and found that 23 percent of American adults were “light” readers (finishing one to five titles per year), 10 percent were “moderate” (six to 11 titles), 13 percent were “frequent” (12 to 49 titles), and a dedicated 5 percent were “avid” (50 books and up).
I guess I can consider myself as "super avid."
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Date: 2023-01-07 03:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-10 04:27 am (UTC)HOLY HECK. I usually read around 40-50 books a year, give or take, including whatever I'm reading aloud to Two. This year I read 125ish books, which was, hands-down absolutely amazing, and only possible because a) I had to read 3 books a week for three months, for my YA lit class last winter and b) I discovered audio books (which is part of how I got through reading 3 books a week for YA lit). I cannot even IMAGINE reading, consistently, more than one book a day. GO YOU!! Are they all new-to-you books or are some of them re-reads of old favorites?
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Date: 2023-01-10 03:14 pm (UTC)And some of them are novellas, as I said, but as I also mentioned, I didn't log everything I read. Lots of fanfic novels are not on Goodreads.
*ponders* It is a rather freakishly high total, isn't it?
*Sigh* It's one of the things that Rob and I shared, our overwhelming, all-consuming love of books.