{"id":10046,"date":"2012-12-31T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:54:17","slug":"2012-my-year-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/10046","title":{"rendered":"2012 – My Year in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from what I may read today, my total books read for 2012 is 160. That’s the second greatest number read after 2006, when I read 164.<\/p>\n

\"2012<\/a><\/p>\n

November (22) and February (19) were the months I read the most–wonder if that relates to how dreary those months can be, since I also read less than average in March (7) and April (10). (July we were on vacation, so that doesn’t count.)<\/p>\n

The total for genre comes out to be more than 160, because many of the books I read fell into multiple categories.<\/p>\n

\"Genre<\/a><\/p>\n

As always, I read primarily fantasies (104) but those were predominantly supernatural fantasy rather than epic or sword & sorcery. That’s because I’m still not in the mood to commit to authors like Robert Jordan or George RR Martin who write huge books in series that never seem to end. <\/p>\n

I still want primarily single book story arcs, and it’s hard to find good S&S that does that.<\/p>\n

The number of romances (33) I read (this is almost always a secondary category) went up, but the number of YA books (35) I read doubled. There are a LOT of good YA books out there, and an eReader means I don’t have to lurk the YA section of the book store to find them. (I know there’s nothing wrong with it, but hanging out there made me feel weird.)<\/p>\n

I also read several blogs that review a lot of YA, so I’ve discovered plenty more to read–as if my TBR pile wasn’t already huge.<\/p>\n

As far as the types of books I’ve read, eBooks has blown away every other category, almost doubling since last year.<\/p>\n

\"Books<\/a><\/p>\n

The slight increase in hardback books is due almost entirely to the number of cookbooks I read (6). But mostly you can see that eBooks (97) have mostly replaced mass market paperback books (22). I don’t think the number trade paperback books (30) will change, because that category contains comics and graphic novels (15) and I won’t read those in any other format.<\/p>\n

And in case you missed them, here are my favorites from 2012.<\/p>\n

My Favorite Books of 2012:
\nYA and Fantasy<\/a>
\nRomance and Mystery<\/a>
\nNon-Fiction and Comics<\/a><\/p>\n

Good Covers of 2012:
\nYA, Romance, and Mystery<\/a>
\nFantasy<\/a><\/p>\n

And my book blog still lives at Random Reading<\/a>, and updates to that appear in the sidebar to the right.<\/p>\n

So, with all that, any recommendations for me for 2013?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aside from what I may read today, my total books read for 2012 is 160. That’s the second greatest number read after 2006, when I read 164. November (22) and February (19) were the months I read the most–wonder if that relates to how dreary those months can be, since I also read less than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-years-favorites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2C2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}