These holidays were not nearly as exciting as last years, thank goodness, but we (MT and I and the menagerie) still had a number of mini-dramas that resulted in me unplugging and going on a jigsaw puzzle binge. Mini-dramas included, but were not limited to: sick cats, mildly ill humans, home wi-fi networks going kaput, and fractured vertebrae (MT’s not mine). Still, it was a nice holiday, all things considered.
Bottom line: 250 books read this year.
If being off your feet for 9 months has a silver lining, that was it. I got a lot of books read. 2022 was the year of the re-read too, with re-reads accounting for 100 of the total books. In fact, my year of re-reading was also a year of re-reading the re-reads, with 10 books from my total being re-read twice in 2022. I also managed to make a noticeable dent in my TBR shelves, with 24% of my reading coming from TBR books from previous years, and 35% from this year’s TBR acquisitions, meaning 146 books came off the TBR pile. (No, don’t ask me how many went on – I don’t know exactly, but it was less than 146. That’s my story.)
2022 was the first year I caved and used a spreadsheet. I liked it overall, although I’m still not sure I have found the exact spreadsheet I want to use. I’m going with it again this year because I feel like I got most of the kinks worked out and want to try it again now that I know what I’m doing.
So, here are some random stats:
How I rated the books:
I had 2 new 5-star reads this year:
One Day: The Extraordinary Story Of An Ordinary 24 Hours In America
Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure: being an account of the voyage of the Beagle, 1831-1836 (kids book, but an excellent one)
I had a whopping (for me) 7 DNFs.
Genre distribution (via Library Thing):
and finally, countries I’ve read from (note: I read 7 books in translation this year, which I’m not sure, but I think is a new high for me.)
