I'm not sure about you, but I blinked and it went from Christmas to February. Can someone please help me find where January went? We had a whirlwind start to this new year {3 snowy weekends in a row!}, and lots of schedule changes in the Library, but I'm hopeful that February will be a calmer month. A new beginning to the new year, maybe? Now that we can catch our breath a little, it's time to get the blogging year started ...
Once upon a time, when I used to write a library column for the Archdale-Trinity News, the first piece of the year would always be a review of my previous year's reading. It seems fitting that the first blog post of 2022 should be a "year in review" of my 2021 reading ...
A few fun facts & figures:
- I read 88 books in 2021 - fewer than my official Goodreads goal of 100, but substantially more than I managed in 2020. A whopping 44% more, to be precise. I consider this a huge win.
- According to Goodreads, my average star rating was 4.0 stars - so I clearly read books I enjoyed, which is also a positive sign.
- I did mark 2 books as DNF (or "Did Not Finish"), but sometimes bailing on a book is a victory of its own. Life is too short to keep plowing through books you don't like and/or are not what you need to read in that moment.
- One of the features I find interesting in the "Year in Books" that Goodreads compiled for me is the "most popular" and "least popular" book. Determined by the number of people who have shelved books on their own Goodreads accounts, my most popular read of 2021 was Lucy Foley's The Guest List (1,172,725 others also shelved it) while my least popular read was J.J. Dupois's Roanoke Ridge (only 394 others shelved it).
Looking at my 2021 reading {especially compared to my 2020 reading}, I'm feeling good about my reading life and the books I pick up. Going into 2022, I've set my Goodreads goal at 100 again {it's such a nice round number}, and at the time of this writing, I've somehow managed to finish 9 books already! And enjoyed them all, so I have a good feeling about the rest of the year.
Stay tuned for updates on my reading journey - I can already tell there will be mini reviews and quite a few "Read Together" posts in the weeks to come!
How did your 2021 reading journey go? Are you making any changes going into 2022?
What's the best book you've read so far?
