Today I'm going to a little overboard analyzing what I read last year
I was inspired by mothereffingbooks
video from last year
link below
Let's get our pie charts on!
I read 40 books in 2014
I wanted to read 50 books but I didn't get there
I did read more than I did in 2013
so forward progress!
And now here comes the pie charts
First up is gender of author
I was pleasantly surprised that this was more balanced than I expected
I thought I read way more male authors than female
but I didn't 
It is pretty even so yay!
Age range was the most surprising
I thought I read way more YA children's lit but I actually read slightly more adult
I'm very happy with this result
I like the balance in my reading
The genre pie chart is a little intense
I read most of contemporary at 25%
Right behind is science fiction at 22%
This is the first year I realized that I actually like a lot of science fiction
So that's an interesting realization I guess
Graphic Novels come in third place at 17%
which is a nice place I want to have my graphic novel reading
You know, there but not taking over all my reading
A surprising genre was horror
I didn't think I was really a horror fan
but there it is
There at 7%
It is important to note that all the horror books were zombie related
and majority were Walking Dead novels
so still a scaredy cat when it comes to most horror
Now on to most read authors
I knew that there wasn't one author that I read a ton of in 2014
I was thinking the most read would be Rainbow Rowell 
but then I forgot I read 3 of Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel volumes
So Neil Gaiman took the prize for most read author of my 2014
Although Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Robert Kirkman Jay Bonansinga 
I don't know how to say that last name
were very close behind
Pages read!
This was probably the one statistic I was most excited to find out about
I had a maximum pages in a book of 550 which I believe was Cress by Marissa Meyer
I think this is respectable for fun reading while in grad school
My minimum pages were 136 which was a children's book so that's understandable
I'm happy with my average of 317.5 especially during grad school
I think that 300 pages is a respectable book length
at this time in my life
So the fact that I went a little higher than that is great
Now on to goals
I'm not one to set too strict of goals for my reading
But here are some things that would be nice to accomplish in 2015
I will once again attempt 50 books
which I think is more possible in 2015
I would like to maintain a balanced blend of male to female authors and age range
No big goals for genre
maybe add a few more classics in there 
because classics can be cool too
I don't have any goals to read one certain author
but it will be interesting to see who that turns out to be in 2015
For pages read I would like to equal or raise my average of 317.5
because I like forward progress
That is all for this video
Looking forward to collecting more book reading data this year 
and comparing 2015 to 2014 in a year
Happy Reading!
