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Goodreads 2022 Challenge results
Jan. 6th, 2023 12:19 pmSo 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 And it doesn’t even include the unpublished fanfiction I read this year or the unpublished manuscripts I was reading to review for other writers.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 And it doesn’t even include the unpublished fanfiction I read this year or the unpublished manuscripts I was reading to review for other writers.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."
