My Year In Books

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 I love to look at the many things I have accomplished throughout the past year and today I am totally enveloped in a book that I will finish before the end of the year. I decided to take a look at my Goodreads pages and see what my year in books looked like. Here is a link to the actual page if you'd like to take a look. Carol’s Year in Books | Goodreads

I will try to summarize it briefly here as well. I have read 17 books but will finish the year with 18 read and had a goal of 14. I have read 4,147 pages but that will change as well as I have about another 100 pages in the book that I am reading now. I will possibly finish it tonight, but by tomorrow for sure. That seems like so many pages, but it truly is not as I know many of us have read many more and I know that is not a record for me either. 

My shortest and longest books are a big difference in page count and genre as you will see below. 

Santa Claus! A Gift of Giving by Lake Press
Shortest Book
8
pages
Beacon of Light by Linda Byler
Longest Book
353
pages




I my average book length has been 243 pages which can sometimes seem to be way too many if I don't have a huge interest in the story that I am reading. Other times the pages seem to be almost one or two words as I can barely turn them fast enough, as with what I am reading today. The story becomes the most important aspect of the day. No other activities matter. 

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Most Shelved
214,020
people also shelved
The Sparkle Forest by Marie Spears Botkin
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved




The Sparkle Forest is a short story written by a friend of a friend and is a really great read. I am hoping others will discover it on Goodreads and it will be shelved many times by next year. If you haven't read it, you should. 


My average rating for 2024
4.6






Comments

  1. JeanieJanuary 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM

    These look lovely, Carol. Here's to another year of good reading!

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    1. CarolJanuary 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM

      Thanks. I am working on adding more books soon.

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