Tag: year in review

2024 | A Year in Review

It’s that time again in the year, the end of the year where I look back and see how much I’ve read during the year. The only place I track my reading is on Goodreads so this is what Goodreads says I’ve read:

I read 181 books last year and this year just 134 (3 books were read by my daughter) and I am very happy with that. My goal was to read less, so I don’t burn out and I did a good job! *pats myself on the back**.

Of course a Sarah J. Maas book is going to be the longest one I’ve read this year! lol not a surprise at all. As for the shortest book? Well my daughter read that one and since my kindle app is linked to my Goodreads, it picks up the books she’s read. And a 385 page book sounds like a dream – I’m glad that’s the average length of a book I’ve read this year!

I finally read Verity and I’m excited to see how they adapt it into a movie. My least shelved book is from an indie author who asked me to read and review her book called Spindleheart. My rating average basically stayed the same from 2023 which is interesting.

This was my first review of the year….

And supposedly my last review…this was a good one!

Here are some stats of how I rated books this year. I have a lot of 4 star books only because if I give it a 3.5 rating, I round up since Goodreads doesn’t allow us to do half stars.

I didn’t do many blog tours this year – very, very few:

BLOG TOUR} The Summer Swap by. Sarah Morgan | Book Excerpt

Blog Tour} The Catch by. Amy Lea | ARC Review

As for some personal favorites of mine this year:

The Women by. Kristin Hannah

The Last Bloodcarver by. Vanessa Le

Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth #1) by. Kristen Ciccarelli

Funny Story by. Emily Henry

Not Another Love Song by. Julie Soto

The Thirteenth Child by. Erin A. Craig

The Songbird & the Heart of Stone by. Carissa Broadbent

Quicksilver by. Callie Hart

How was your reading year? Did you reach your reading goals? What was your favorite books of 2024?

2023 | A Year in Review

It’s that time again in the year, the end of the year where I look back and see how much I’ve read during the year. The only place I track my reading is on Goodreads so this is what Goodreads says I’ve read:

What a coincidence that I read the same amount as last year?! Honestly I need to remove the children’s books from the count. It’s there because I use my kindle app to borrow books for my kids to read. So there are about maybe 15-20 titles in this log that are books my kids read – not me. So let’s say I actually read 160 books.

The hardcover for Iron Flame says actually 640 pages, but for some strange reason, the ebook came out to 884? I don’t get it but that’s what it says.

Wow, I’m pretty generous in my ratings I think! 

That sounds about right – Fourth Wing was THE book of 2023 I think.

I had a pretty good year of reading I think. Though I do feel like I had more of a burnout at the end of the year. I’m trying to go into 2024 slowly- even though I have to finish 3 arcs this month! I just really need to slow down this year and read less – just so I don’t get into a reading slump. 

This is how I rated books this year – but I will note that in the 5 stars category, some were 4.5 stars, and in the 4 stars category there are a lot of 3.5 stars in there too and so forth. In the 0 stars category there are 2 dnf’s in there and the rest aren’t rated because they are the children’s books my daughter read. 

How was your reading year?

2022 | A Year in Review

It’s that time again in the year, the end of the year where I look back and see how much I’ve read during the year. The only place I track my reading is on Goodreads so this is what Goodreads says I’ve read:

Ever since I’ve become a blogger I hit 150++ in books read for the year. Before that I think I barely hit 100 because I re-read my faves a lot and mostly, ONLY read popular hyped books. This hasn’t always been the case…I’ll say this was the case since Twilight and The Da Vinci Code came out. Before that I read every genre out there.

But now with the blog I’ve gravitated towards Young Adult and Adult Romance. I do miss re-reading my faves and branching off into new genres but lately I feel like I have no time.

Of course Sarah J Mass will always have the highest page count of the year lol. I did more reading with my daughter this year because she’s in Kinder and she has to read and log books so I did add a few books we read together.

Wow, Where the Crawdad’s Sing was shelved 3m++ times?! That’s crazy. My rating average stayed the same as last year and here I thought I was being less generous this year.

I was hoping to do some detailed review but honestly these last few weeks have been busy for me and with the kids on winter break and my husband calling from overseas constantly lol…I feel like I have no time to myself except when I go to bed. Sigh and I haven’t been able to finish a book because a few pages in and I knock out. So no detailed review this year, guess I’ll add that to my list goal for next year!

How was your reading year?

2022 | A Year in Review

It’s that time again in the year, the end of the year where I look back and see how much I’ve read during the year. The only place I track my reading is on Goodreads so this is what Goodreads says I’ve read:

Ever since I’ve become a blogger I hit 150++ in books read for the year. Before that I think I barely hit 100 because I re-read my faves a lot and mostly, ONLY read popular hyped books. This hasn’t always been the case…I’ll say this was the case since Twilight and The Da Vinci Code came out. Before that I read every genre out there.

But now with the blog I’ve gravitated towards Young Adult and Adult Romance. I do miss re-reading my faves and branching off into new genres but lately I feel like I have no time.

Of course Sarah J Mass will always have the highest page count of the year lol. I did more reading with my daughter this year because she’s in Kinder and she has to read and log books so I did add a few books we read together.

Wow, Where the Crawdad’s Sing was shelved 3m++ times?! That’s crazy. My rating average stayed the same as last year and here I thought I was being less generous this year.

I was hoping to do some detailed review but honestly these last few weeks have been busy for me and with the kids on winter break and my husband calling from overseas constantly lol…I feel like I have no time to myself except when I go to bed. Sigh and I haven’t been able to finish a book because a few pages in and I knock out. So no detailed review this year, guess I’ll add that to my list goal for next year!

How was your reading year?

Year in Review | 2021

What a year! It was a year of being cautious as school opened back up and restrictions were lifted, reinstated, lifted and reinstated…and now lifted but cautious again as numbers of COVID surge higher again. It was better than all the major anxiety of 2020 at least and I hope next year will be better.

According to Goodreads.com:

Honestly, I don’t know how accurate this is because at times I have 3 versions of the same book as “to read” or “read”. 🤦🏻‍♀️ So I know it’s close to this number but probably less. There are books I read and didn’t review either – mainly because I forgot or I ended up not liking it and didn’t want to spend energy saying why.

Once again, I’ve rated books quite high, even though I felt like this year I got more three star and DNF’ed books.

I wrote about my favorite book of this year. Here are the books I enjoyed the most in 2021 – just click the links below:

Best Books I Read in 2021 | TTT

Favourite Books of 2021 | #SixForSunday

The lowest rated books for me are:

Most of these were mostly because I’m just not the right audience for it.

I hope all of you have an amazing New Year!! Please stay safe, stay healthy and here’s to a good 2022!

🎆 ~ Yolanda

Year in Review | 2020

In review it was the worst year ever – lost family members to COVID, the anxiety was unreal, turn to stress eating and a daily coffee drinker now 🤦🏻‍♀️. Cancelled the family Disney Cruise which my daughter keeps insisting we are still going on when the virus disappears (not happening). BUT my friends and family are safe and healthy despite the crazy year…we got through it! Books got me through it so let’s see what I read!

According to Goodreads.com:

My goal was to read 70 books because I read close to 200 last year. Well…I tried getting to less than a hundred but in a pandemic year? Forget it!

151 sounds about right and wow, I rate books fairly high huh? 😁

And here are the books I read…

You know I did read more than this, a few were kindle unlimited series that I wanted to review all together in one post, but I’m waiting for the final book of the series to do it. Oh well…I’ll write them in 2021. There really were some amazing books this year!

As far as my blog format is concerned, I changed up the look a little this year by adding different banners for sections. More changes may be coming because I learn as I go and I may change how I write my reviews (again)…haha, I know, I know, more changes?!…I want more fun bookish content,. I just wish I had the time to spend on the blog. Anyway, we shall see how I feel! How did you do this year?

🎆 ~ Yolanda