Statistics Survey 2014

Posted January 11, 2015 by Lauren in 2014 recaps, Random / 2 Comments

I was really excited to see Brittany’s post sharing the statistics survey that she and Andi are hosting! I love stats, in fact, right now I am in the process of building all kinds of fun and wonderful graphs from my reading stats last year so I couldn’t wait to fill this out!

Number of…

Number of books under 250 pages (not including novellas): 4
Number of books read between 400-449 pages: 10
Number of books read between 450-499 pages: 1
Number of books read over 500 pages: 3 (The All Souls Trilogy 😛 They are each over 500 pages!)
Number of books read over 1000 pages: 0!
Number of novellas read: 11 (includes The Assassin’s Blade novella’s)
Number of books that made you cry: 18 if I am counting correctly. I’m surprised it’s that low honestly haha. I spent a lot of tears on TV this year though haha. 
Number of books from a female POV: Alright, so since the below is… what it is. That would mean I read 76 books from a female POV. 
Number of books from a male POV: Oh wow, this is pathetic. 0. That’s right, ZERO! Gosh, I hope that changes in 2014!
Number of alternating or multiple POVs: Seriously, I have no idea. I tried to list them, but then I keep imagining that there was multiple POV’s in some of them that there wasn’t so… no answer for this haha. 
Number of DNFs (did not finish): 1
Number of five star reads: 14! 
Number of one/two star reads: 3
Number of authors met in 2014: 6! Emily Carroll, Nick Cutter, Lesley Livingston, Jonathan Lyr, Jim Gaffigan, and *swoon* Deborah Harkness!
Number of book events attended in 2014: Two, The Toronto Book Fair (Inspire!) and Fan Expo.
Number of books you read in one day: One. In 2013, I read sometimes 2 books a day on the weekend but this year my reading slowed way down. I hope to do it again this year though 🙂
Number of audiobooks: Hah. None, but I did attempt several and then put them away. 
Number of 2015 books you have on pre-order: 0! I did have Never, Never by Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher on preorder, but that was canceled recently.
Number of re-reads: 2! This wasn’t what I wanted it to be, but it’s certainly better than the year before so I will take it.

By The Books

Book with the highest rating on Goodreads: The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas (4.54) 
Book with the lowest rating on Goodreads: This Summer by Katlyn Duncan (3.30)
Book read furthest away from home (vacation reads?): Ah, nothing. No vacation this year! (At least a traveling vacation)
Book that took you the longest to read: Definitely my reread of A Discovery of Witches. Not because I didn’t enjoy it just because I kept picking up new releases in place of my reread!
Book that you personally connected with the most: The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher
Book that made you love the villain: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Book you said you’d come back to but still haven’t picked up again: Open Road Summer by Emery Lord
Book you read waaaay before its publication date: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It wasn’t WAYYY before its publication date, but it was about 2 months before. Ok, yah, that is quite a bit before haha. 
Book you read on your birthday: Wicked Games by Sean Olin
Book with a character who shares your name: None! I hardly ever see the name Lauren in books!
Book you weren’t entirely truthful about when rating (Fluff up any ratings? Rated even though you didn’t finish?): Um, nope I was definitely truthful in the ratings at the time. Now though, if I was to reread, upon further reflection and me being a bit harsher I think I would change some of them. 
Book you read in 2014 but already want to re-read: Oh there are a few! First one would be My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick though. 
Book you borrowed from a friend a long time ago and still have: None 🙂
Book by a foreign author/originally published in another country: Witchstruck by Victoria Lamb. I do believe this was originally published in the UK. Either way Victoria Lamb is from the UK!
Book you which you could go back and read for the first time again: Well this would totally be Harry Potter but I didn’t do a reread in 2014 🙁 SOOO… My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Most books read by one author this year: I have a three-way tie! Leigh Bardugo (The Witch of Duva, The Tailor & Shadow and Bone), Karen Ann Hopkins (Forever, Embers, and Lamb to the Slaughter) and Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life)

This & That

Happiest & saddest: Happiest was The Art of Lainey, and saddest was The Assassin’s Blade. Gosh, I sobbed reading that!
Longest & shortest: Longest was Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness and shortest (that wasn’t a novella) was We Were Liars. 
Best & worst: Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell was definitely the worst and best was … The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness (if I really had to choose from my favorites). 
First & last reads of 2014: First book was Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi and the last book was Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Lyla Payne
First & last books on your bookcase (1st book on the top left and last book on the bottom right): Haha, I can’t even answer this question right now because I have half of my books pulled off the shelf to reorganize. I got a ton of books since the first of December so I need to put them on and also I ran out of room on my TBR shelf so I’m trying to figure out what to do with the others, but still retain my alphabetical order! So… a skip on this one 😛
The most disappointing & the biggest pleasant surprise: The most disappointing was probably We Were Liars. It was hyped so much and I just really didn’t see the appeal when I finished it. The biggest pleasant surprise was The Art of Lainey. Probably because I had zero expectations of it and it completely swept me up! 
Bandwagon/fandom you joined & one you abandoned: I definitely joined the Throne of Glass bandwagon. I LOVE that series! I didn’t really abandon any that I can think of right now, not of any of the books I read in 2014 anyway.
Most lenient & harshest ratings: My most lenient was probably Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell, if I was to rate it now I’d probably give it *gasp* one star instead of my generous 2 star haha. My harshest rating was probably Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White. I liked that book (I gave it three stars) but I think if I was to reread and rate again it would probably move up to a 4 star in hindsight. 
Most hyped & furthest under the radar that you read: Most hyped was definitely We Were Liars by E. Lockhart, gosh that book got a lot of hype this year. Furthest under the radar is harder to pick because I read a lot of books that I didn’t see mentioned a ton, first to mind is probably Wicked Games by Sean Olin. I really enjoyed that one but didn’t see a ton of reviews on it!

Grab Bag

Book you read that is red: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Book you read that starts with M: Made For You by Melissa Marr
Book you read that you may have hugged when you finished it: Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern
Book you read that you may have wanted to throw across a room: Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes
Book that has the letters Q, X, or Z in the title (bonus for one of the words in the title beginning with those!): Hexed by Michelle Krys
Book that suffered some damage this year (food? water? ripped pages/cover? Ouch!): Well, I haven’t read this one but the dust jacket of What I Thought Was True got a bit torn somehow 🙁
Food you craved while/after reading a certain book: I crave Ringolo’s whenever I am reading for some reason!
First book you read in 2015: Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little (talk about starting the year off right!!)
Number of books read that end with a 6 in the page count: 15

Blogging Life

Number of posts in 2014: 168
Number of reviews posted this year: 69
First post of 2014: 2013 End of Year Book Survey
First review of 2014: Pawn by Aimee Carter
Last post of 2014: Top Ten Goals & Resolutions for 2015!
Last review of 2014: Suspicion by Alexandra Monir
Least coherent review: Oh, Shadow and Bone! I rambled and rambled in that review haha. 
Review with the most views (regardless of post date): Lamb to the Slaughter by Karen Ann Hopkins!
Post with the most comments: Top Ten Tuesday #62 – Top Ten Things on My Bookish Bucket List
Post you wish you could re-write: Hard to choose, but I would say probably one of my reviews. I always think of things DAYS after the review is already posted 😛
Most popular post this year (that was posted in 2014): Tips from an Organizer – Organizing Feedly!

Phew! That was so fun! Did you fill out the statistics survey? If you did, please link up your post so I can check out your answers also!

Lauren

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