Saturday, January 14, 2017

2016 Books by Numbers



I'm a sucker for a good graph, so I've decided to create some simple data visualizations for my reading over the past year.

First, here's a chart showing how many books I read each month, where you can see my monthly totals drop sharply during the summer and then rise dramatically again afterwards.  Since my wife and I spent June hunting for a house and July moving in, that makes a lot of sense.



Thursday, January 12, 2017

2016 Reading Wrap-Up

I read a lot of books last year. Here's my favorite forty. Many of these have already been reviewed in my monthly reading round-ups, but I want to do a little more to spotlight them.  So here are the forty best books I read in 2016, over all categories.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

What Are You Reading? December 2016 Edition

December Total: 25
2017 Total: 400

Nonfiction
H is for Hawk Macdonald, Helen
Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Beecroft, Simon
F in Exams: The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers Benson, Richard

Comics
Saga, Volume 3 Vaughan, Brian K.
Saga, Volume 4 Vaughan, Brian K.
Saga, Volume 5 Vaughan, Brian K.
Dendo: One Year and One Half in Tokyo Olsen, Brittany Long
Watchmen Moore, Alan
The Courageous Princess: Beyond the Hundred Kingdoms    Espinosa, Rod
The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln Van Sciver, Noah