End of the Year Stats
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One of my New Year's Resolutions is to not buy any books at all to read for the upcoming year. This is maybe a weird resolution, but I am currently looking at a room in which there are five large towers of books on the floor because there is no longer any room on the three double shelved bookshelves for them. Every once in a while I go through and try to weed this overwhelming mass, and find myself stopping and thinking, but I want to read this before I get rid of it.
So, given that even as I was chewing through books this year they were almost all ebooks on libby, my piles did not shrink in any way, and in fact continued to grow as every once in a while I would make the error of walking into a used bookshop and coming out with 3-5 books. I'm getting seriously hemmed in here, so if I'm struggling with making the piles shrink, at least I can probably keep it from growing. It's going to be hard to do though because the one thing on this planet that I impulse buy is books.
The books that are currently sitting on the top of my closest "No really I'm gonna read them" pile are:
According to 4thwords, I wrote an average 28,000 words monthly, so approximately 336k words this year. That number largely reflects drafts, reviews, and personal journaling that doesn't end up here, but that's still a lot of words.
My Steam play stats look a little more varied than they did last year when half the month was dominated by Lost Ark. Since Honkai is not connected via Steam this isn't a super accurate picture of the last quarter of the year though. According to Honkai's own end of the year stats I raked up 60 some hours in the damn game over the course of something like 3 months.
Here's the graph.
My top played were Against the Storm, Divinity Original Sin 2, and Mass Effect, in that order. AtS is a great city builder. Each round takes a very long time to complete though, so I need to have at least an hour free to even start up a session. Divinity was probably the new game that I had the most fun with this year. Maybe someday I'll go back and play a solo game too. Mass Effect was ok, but I've never been as big a fan of that series as I was of Dragon Age. I've always found the combat to be a slog.
The two brief indy games that I played this year was Wall World, which was addictive but shallow, and Hyper Light Drifter, which I loved but did not have the patience to 100% because my god finding shit on that map is such a pain in the ass. The combat was both satisfying and challenging though.\
Library thing has jumped on the end-of-year wrap up bandwagon, which inspired me to stop procrastinating about throwing all the books I had read this year into my account. Doing so nets me a few pretty graphs to look at, including one that approximates the height of the sum total of all of the books that I read in one year. This is a bit of a fuzzy math based on average page width and is complicated by page counts in ebooks, but pretending that it is at all accurate, I read enough this year to almost get a stack of books higher than a tennis net. That's actually kind of impressive and doesn't feel accurate lol.
There is also a handy graph of books read per month, which is again not entirely accurate as I was lazy about input but still.
There's also this genre breakdown.
The horror is all Widdershins lol.
My Steam play stats look a little more varied than they did last year when half the month was dominated by Lost Ark. Since Honkai is not connected via Steam this isn't a super accurate picture of the last quarter of the year though. According to Honkai's own end of the year stats I raked up 60 some hours in the damn game over the course of something like 3 months.
Here's the graph.
My top played were Against the Storm, Divinity Original Sin 2, and Mass Effect, in that order. AtS is a great city builder. Each round takes a very long time to complete though, so I need to have at least an hour free to even start up a session. Divinity was probably the new game that I had the most fun with this year. Maybe someday I'll go back and play a solo game too. Mass Effect was ok, but I've never been as big a fan of that series as I was of Dragon Age. I've always found the combat to be a slog.
The two brief indy games that I played this year was Wall World, which was addictive but shallow, and Hyper Light Drifter, which I loved but did not have the patience to 100% because my god finding shit on that map is such a pain in the ass. The combat was both satisfying and challenging though.\
Library thing has jumped on the end-of-year wrap up bandwagon, which inspired me to stop procrastinating about throwing all the books I had read this year into my account. Doing so nets me a few pretty graphs to look at, including one that approximates the height of the sum total of all of the books that I read in one year. This is a bit of a fuzzy math based on average page width and is complicated by page counts in ebooks, but pretending that it is at all accurate, I read enough this year to almost get a stack of books higher than a tennis net. That's actually kind of impressive and doesn't feel accurate lol.
There is also a handy graph of books read per month, which is again not entirely accurate as I was lazy about input but still.
There's also this genre breakdown.
The horror is all Widdershins lol.
One of my New Year's Resolutions is to not buy any books at all to read for the upcoming year. This is maybe a weird resolution, but I am currently looking at a room in which there are five large towers of books on the floor because there is no longer any room on the three double shelved bookshelves for them. Every once in a while I go through and try to weed this overwhelming mass, and find myself stopping and thinking, but I want to read this before I get rid of it.
So, given that even as I was chewing through books this year they were almost all ebooks on libby, my piles did not shrink in any way, and in fact continued to grow as every once in a while I would make the error of walking into a used bookshop and coming out with 3-5 books. I'm getting seriously hemmed in here, so if I'm struggling with making the piles shrink, at least I can probably keep it from growing. It's going to be hard to do though because the one thing on this planet that I impulse buy is books.
The books that are currently sitting on the top of my closest "No really I'm gonna read them" pile are:
- Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
- Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? (I'm halfway through this one)
- Ostler, Empires of the Word
- Bates, Library, an Unquiet History
- Souseki, The Gate
- ... Herodotus, The Persian Wars (fucking why, self?)
- Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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