2014 Statistics Survey

This year we decided to participate in the Statistics Survey hosted by Andi at Andi’s ABCs and Brittany of The Book ‘Guide. We are always excited when we see these come out because then we can see what everyone has been up to!!

Erin’s Responses

1. Number of books under 250 pages (not including novellas): 9

2. Number of books read between 400-449 pages: 25

3. Number of books read between 450-499 pages: 8

4. Number of books read over 500 pages: 11

5. Number of books read over 1000 pages: 0

6. Number of novellas read: 18

7. Number of books that made you cry: 2 (Me Since You by Laura Wiess and Strange & Ever After by Susan Dennard)

8. Number of books from a female POV: 91

9. Number of books from a male POV: 8

10. Number of alternating or multiple POVs: 116

11. Number of DNFs (did not finish): 12

12. Number of five star reads: Goodreads says 60 but some of these are actually 4.5 stars

13. Number of one/two star reads: 5

14. Number of authors met in 2014: A lot

15. Number of book events attended in 2014: A lot

16. Number of books you read in one day: July 12 – I finished 3 books

17. Number of audiobooks: 20

18. Number of 2015 books you have on pre-order: 4 – Golden Son by Pierce Brown, The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski, Burn by Paula Weston, and End of Days by Susan Ee

19. Number of re-reads: 18

1. Book with the highest rating on Goodreads:

Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3) by Sarah Maas (4.61)

2. Book with the lowest rating on Goodreads:

Twisted Fate by Norah Olson (3.02)

3. Book read furthest away from home (vacation reads?):

A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird #1) by Claudia Gray – Read while I was in Italy!

4. Book that took you the longest to read:

Red Rising – I started this in January of 2014 and put is aside. I finally finished it in December 2014!

5. Book that you personally connected with the most:
Cherish by Tracey Garvis-Graves – for no reason other than the fact that I loved the story and through something horrible that happened, the charcters were able to find their way back to each other.

6. Book that made you love the villain:

Ruin & Rising – The Darkling will forever be a favorite of mine.

7. Book you said you’d come back to but still haven’t picked up again:

I have a shelf of these but I think the one that is on there that I would like to try again is The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey

8. Book you read waaaay before it’s publication date:

Heir of Fire by Sarah Maas & The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon

9. Book you read on your birthday:

First World Problems by LeighAnn Kopans

10. Book with a character who shares your name:

I’m going to cheat a bit – Arin (kind of like Erin…right??) from The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski

11. Book you weren’t entirely truthful about when rating (Fluff up any ratings? Rated even though you didn’t finish?):

None really fit – I tend to rate up but in my review lower if I felt it wasn’t worthy of the full rating (Goodreads needs to get 1/2 stars….)

12. Book you read in 2014 but already want to re-read:

Blue Lily, Lily Blue, The Book of Ivy, and Snow Like Ashes are for sure on this list.

13. Book you borrowed from a friend a long time ago and still have:

None – I don’t typically borrow books (unless it is something I can’t hunt down myself) because I have so many of my own that I need to read!

14. Book by a foreign author/originally published in another country:

Shimmer (Rephaim #3) by Paula Weston

15. Book you which you could go back and read for the first time again:

The Kiss of Deception by Mary Pearson – I was so back and forth on who was whom in that book and I loved it!

16. Most books read by one author this year:

This is a tie – Kit Rocha and Marie Rutkoski. I read 4 books/novellas by each.

1. Happiest & saddest:

Happiest = Isla and the Happily Ever After / Saddest = Bleed Like Me

2. Longest & shortest:

Longest = The Bronze Horseman (810 pages) / Shortest = Bridge of Snow (Winner’s Trilogy #0.5) Novella (32 pages)

3. Best & worst:
Best: Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Worst: Reaper’s Property by Joanna Wylde

4. First & last reads of 2014:

First = Ruined (The Eternal Balance #1) by Jus Accardo / Last =

5. First & last books on your bookcase (1st book on the top left and last book on the bottom right):

I can’t do it…I have more than one bookcase and 2 layers of books on most

6. The most disappointing & the biggest pleasant surprise:

Disappointing = Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi (don’t hate me for this!) / Pleasant Surprise = Some Fine Day by Kat Ros

7. Bandwagon/fandom you joined & one you abandoned:

I am officially on the Red Rising/Pierce Brown bandwagon…Red Rising and Golden Son gutted me.

8. Most lenient & harshest ratings:

Lenient = Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin / Harshest = Shatter by Erin McCarthy (Darn you Goodreads and your no 1/2 stars!!)

9. Most hyped & furthest under the radar that you read:

Most hyped = Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell / Furthest under the radar = A Vault of Sins by Sarah Harian

1. Book you read that is red:

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly a True Story by Josh Sundquist

2. Book you read that starts with M:

Magnolia by Kristi Cook

3. Book you read that you may have hugged when you finished it:

Open Road Summer by Emory Lord

4. Book you read that you may have wanted to throw across a room:

Remake by Ilima Todd

5. Book that has the letters Q, X, or Z in the title (bonus for one of the words in the title beginning with those!):

I actually had a few of these – Queen of Someday by Sherry Ficklin and Zodiac by Romina Russell

6. Book that suffered some damage this year (food? water? ripped pages/cover? Ouch!): None – Thank the lord!!! 🙂 I try to be very careful with my books.

7. Food you craved while/after reading a certain book:

Nothing that I can think of

8. First book you read in 2015:
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

9. Number of books read that end with a 6 in the page count:

Only 3!

Jaime’s Responses

1. Number of books under 250 pages (not including novellas): 20

2. Number of books read between 400-449 pages: 26

3. Number of books read between 450-499 pages: 6

4. Number of books read over 500 pages: 4

5. Number of books read over 1000 pages: 0 do people read books over 1k pages??

6. Number of novellas read: 11

7. Number of books that made you cry: 2 (Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington & Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor)

8. Number of books from a female POV: 118

9. Number of books from a male POV: 14

10. Number of alternating or multiple POVs: 118

11. Number of DNFs (did not finish): 9

12. Number of five star reads: 32

13. Number of one/two star reads: 10

14. Number of authors met in 2014: a lot

15. Number of book events attended in 2014: a lot

16. Number of books you read in one day: 3 books 6 times

17. Number of audiobooks: 25

18. Number of 2015 books you have on pre-order:

3 – Blackout Meredith McCardle, A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas & I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios

19. Number of re-reads: 1 – If I Stay by Gayle Forman

1. Book with the highest rating on Goodreads:

The Saint by Tiffany Reisz at 4.66

2. Book with the lowest rating on Goodreads:

Moth & Spark by Anne Leonard at 3.27

3. Book read furthest away from home (vacation reads?):

The Falconer by Elizabeth May & Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas ( read both while at BEA in NYC)

4. Book that took you the longest to read:

Love Letters To The Dead – I wasn’t into it right away when I started in Nov of 2013 (LOL) but I kept it on my shelf and when I picked it up in June of 2014 I couldn’t put it down!

5. Book that you personally connected with the most:

Probably How To Love by Katie Cotugo… it just has themes and a plot that parts of it could have been my life!

6. Book that made you love the villain:

The Grisha series… I mean really.

7. Book you said you’d come back to but still haven’t picked up again:

Tiger Lily

8. Book you read waaaay before it’s publication date:

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

9. Book you read on your birthday:

Not Quite Cold by Lyla Payne

10. Book with a character who shares your name:

hahah – um Jaime Lannister is the only one I have come across and I definitely haven’t read those books!

11. Book you weren’t entirely truthful about when rating (Fluff up any ratings? Rated even though you didn’t finish?):

I actually am an emotional rater so a handful of mine were probably not fully accurate. I try to go back and rate them towards the end of the year so that they reflect my true feelings.

12. Book you read in 2014 but already want to re-read:

Winger by Andrew Smith, Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas, Open Road Summer by Emery Lord, Swimming to Tokyo by Brenda St. John Brown, Boomerang by Noelle August

13. Book you borrowed from a friend a long time ago and still have:

this book that I borrowed from Liza … It’s orange and I can’t remember the title but I know exactly where it is on my shelf. *note to self – read this this year*

14. Book by a foreign author/originally published in another country:

Every Series by Ellie Marney – READ THESE PEOPLE!

15. Book you which you could go back and read for the first time again:

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski

16. Most books read by one author this year:

7 by Jill Shalvis, 7 by Roni Loren & 6 by Jennifer Armentrout/J. Lynn

1. Happiest & saddest:

Saddest – Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington (ugh it was such a hard read) Happiest – Boomerang by Noelle August

2. Longest & shortest:

Longest – Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas 562 pages

Shortest – Merry Christmas, Baby by Jill Shalvis 64 pages

3. Best & worst:

Best – A Court of Thorns & Roses –

Worst – Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick OR Beautiful Girl by Lida James

4. First & last reads of 2014:

First – Rebel by Amy Tintera –

Last – The Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay

5. First & last books on your bookcase (1st book on the top left and last book on the bottom right):

hahahahah which bookcase omg

6. The most disappointing & the biggest pleasant surprise:

Disappointment – The Winter People by Rebekah Purdy

Biggest Surprise – Whatever Life Throws At You by Julie Cross

7. Bandwagon/fandom you joined & one you abandoned:

I guess I maybe joined the Winner’s Curse bandwagon… we needed a support group after The Winner’s Crime! I don’t know that I flounced any fandoms though.

8. Most lenient & harshest ratings:

I was very lenient with my Then & Always rating – MAYBE a little harsh with my Black Ice rating.

9. Most hyped & furthest under the radar that you read:

Most Hyped – Ruin & Rising / Under the Radar – Trouble by Non Pratt

1. Book you read that is red:

Ruby Red by Kirsten Gier

2. Book you read that starts with M:

Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburn

3. Book you read that you may have hugged when you finished it:

Isla & The Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

4. Book you read that you may have wanted to throw across a room:

Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick

5. Book that has the letters Q, X, or Z in the title (bonus for one of the words in the title beginning with those!):

Zac & Mia ! (I get extra points!)

6. Book that suffered some damage this year (food? water? ripped pages/cover? Ouch!): BLASPHEMY!!

7. Food you craved while/after reading a certain book:

nah… no food by my books..LOL

8. First book you read in 2015:

The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury OMG YOU GUYS

9. Number of books read that end with a 6 in the page count: 23

1. Number of posts in 2014: 612

2. Number of reviews posted this year: 251

3. First post of 2014: Our December Wrap Up Post!

4. First review of 2014: Defy by Sara Larson

5. Last post of 2014: Our Month Ahead – What We’re Excited For In January Post

6. Last review of 2014: Gone Too Far by Natalie Richards

7. Least coherent review: It might be Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas – since it’s just a mess of gifs lol

8. Review with the most views (regardless of post date): What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick & The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson

9. Post with the most comments: I can’t find it easily so I’m skipping this one!

10. Post you wish you could re-write: nothing really … I think!

11. Most popular post this year (that was posted in 2014): The Young Elites by Marie Lu

There you have it… us at a glance in 2014!! Let us know some of your statistics in the comments!!

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