I know this is a little bit late, but I didn't think about doing this until New Years Eve. Many bloggers are doing a end of the year survey from The Perpetual Pageturner, which is fine, but I looked at the questions and I just know that I will have a hard time answering them. Best Book You Read In 2014? Favorite new author you discovered in 2014? Favorite cover of a book you read in 2014? Just one?! I have a hard time picking favorites! That's why my favorite color is rainbow! So, I decided to make up my own Year in Review!
What Happened
While my love is reading, I did do other things this year.
- I graduated High School! Yep. I was officially done with High School in May 2014!
- Started college. I actually started going to college during High School, which was still 2014. I had only 2 classes for my 2nd semester, so I took college classes at my local community college. Then, in August I started full-time school there, same community college but different location. The school I go to now if about a half an hour from home and I do live onsite. I figured it's babysteps. I'm used to depending on my parents, so I wanted to become a bit independent, but still be able to easily ask my parents for help. I will be eventually going to a school further away. Anyway, I live in The Villas which is like a dorm, but we each get our own bedroom and bathroom! We still get a roommate, but my roommate is pretty cool :)
- May was a busy month for me! The day before my graduation, I went to a Marissa Meyer signing! This was an AMAZING experience for me as Marissa Meyer is definitely one of my top ten favorite authors!
- RT!!! I went to the RT Booklovers Convention, again, in May. It was my graduation present and we left the day after graduation on to New Orleans! I had such a blast! I got more than 50 of my books from home signed and I got 50 more free books! It was so lovely meeting all of these authors and we have already started planning for next year!
- I started writing a book! My Mom and I are writing a book together and we're making pretty good progress! We're not done yet, but it's going along pretty nicely!
BOOKS!
(Photo above not entirely accurate.)
Number of Books Read: 387 (Not counting rereads)
Number of Books Read: 387 (Not counting rereads)
Number of Pages: 125,328 (Not counting rereads)
Number of Rereads: 26
DNF: 4
Genres
Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic | 96 |
Contemporary | 84 |
Paranormal | 50 |
Fantasy | 36 |
Historical | 30 |
This might not be entirely accurate, especially the Paranormal. I don't actually have a shelf on Gooreads for that genre. Nevertheless, it doesn't surprise me that I'm still a sucker for dystopians.
Some fabulous Dystopian books I read last year:
Publishers
Harper Collins | 67 |
Indie | 66 |
Simon and Schuster | 40 |
Penguin | 33 |
Macmillian | 25 |
Little Brown | 19 |
Harlequin Teen | 16 |
Disney-Hyperion | 15 |
Bloomsbury | 12 |
Random House | 12 |
Scholastic | 9 |
EgmontUSA | 6 |
HMH | 6 |
Skyscape | 6 |
Entangled Teen | 5 |
Flux | 5 |
Strange Chemistry | 5 |
Alloy Entertainment | 4 |
Candlewick Press | 3 |
Kensington | 3 |
Amulet | 2 |
Other | 2 |
Carolrhoda Lab | 2 |
Arthur A. Levine | 2 |
Phoenix Reign | 2 |
Spencer Hill Press | 2 |
Spourcebooks Fire | 2 |
47 North | 2 |
Chicken House | 1 |
Chronicle | 1 |
Diversion | 1 |
Dundurn | 1 |
Quirk | 1 |
Pyr | 1 |
Shadow Mountain | 1 |
Sky Pony Press | 1 |
Surprise, surprise. Harper is my most read publisher. I watch so much TeaTime that I'm always adding Harper titles to my To-Read pile. I also swear that they have some the most amazing covers. I'm more surprised by how close Indie books are to beating Harper out.
Some fabulous Harper books I read last year:
Some fabulous Harper books I read last year:
Where I Got the Books From
Library | 162 |
Bought | 101 |
Ebook Lending Site | 31 |
For Review | 28 |
Freebie | 24 |
From RT | 24 |
Won | 10 |
Read on Pulseit | 6 |
This is based on how I was able to read the book. I eventually might've bought or won some of these, but originally read them another way.
Some fabulous library books I read last year:
*awkward laughter* I have some problems. In my defense, most of these are cheap books. At the book sales there were 3 books for $1, a bag for $10, and books at $0.50-$1. Bookaholic, The Book Grinder, Half Price Books, and anything listed as other are all used book stores. But, yeah, I still have a problem.
Some fabulous book sale books I read last year:
Some fabulous library books I read last year:
Buying Books
Total books bought: 282
Book Sales | 123 |
Bookaholic | 64 |
Half Price Books | 37 |
Amazon | 29 |
Barnes & Noble | 22 |
The Book Grinder | 2 |
Other | 2 |
From RT | 2 |
Watermark | 1 |
*awkward laughter* I have some problems. In my defense, most of these are cheap books. At the book sales there were 3 books for $1, a bag for $10, and books at $0.50-$1. Bookaholic, The Book Grinder, Half Price Books, and anything listed as other are all used book stores. But, yeah, I still have a problem.
Some fabulous book sale books I read last year:
Blogging!
I started my blog in 2012 out of complete boredom. I didn't understand the work it takes to create a blog, so The Psychotic Nerd just sat there collecting dust. As part of my 2014 news years resolution, I decided to revive my blog. I'm glad to say that I kept up that resolution and I am very much in love with my blog now!
Bloglovin' Followers: 142
GFC Followers: 136
Email Subscribers: 33
I have no idea how many exact followers I had at the beginning of 2014, but it was in the 20's. To think that I now have over 100 followers? I'm amazed at how much my blog has changed!
Along with that, I have posted 372 blog posts! 86 were book reviews, 24 were short & simple reviews (another 48 reviews).
In 2013, I had only 84 blog posts (less than the amount of reviews in 2014!) and only 11 reviews.
So much has changed in just a year!
So, I'm going to keep this trend going in this new year!
Things I should do:
- Buy less books. Seriously. I love buying books, but 282?????
- Keep up the good work! I'm proud of my blog right now and I should keep at it!
- Comment more and be more social online.
- Try to finish those series I've already started.
- Read some great books!
Anyway, there goes my extremely factual Year in Review! I hope you guys have a great 2015!
Wow! You had a great reading year! Congrats on graduating high school!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteAlso, I LOVED Prom and Prejudice; I thought it was so cute!
ReplyDeleteYES! It's such a cute book!
DeleteWow 387 books is quite an effort! I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed A Thousand Pieces of You and Infinite - I'm hoping to read those both soon.
ReplyDeleteI really love the cover for Poison, and added it to my TBR on Goodreads for that reason, so I'm happy to see it's a good book too!
Congratulations on a great year :)