New passenger princess time

Mark passed his driving test on Friday - congrats Mark!! I'm very excited to be the new passenger princess for you to get more independence and freedom. 

2025 Year in Books

The post you all have been waiting for… my 2025 year in books!

For those who are new to obsessive book tracking, I use 2 cataloguing websites/apps: Goodreads (amazon owned, great for numerous reviews but the stats aren’t amazing) & Storygraph (independently owned, brilliant stats, but less popular therefore fewer reviews). Goodreads also isn’t accurate for audiobooks, so the pages/minutes on Storygraph is the accurate one. 

Goodreads sent an email with some fabulous graphics - but it was sent a bit prematurely in mid-late December and was not updated when more books were read. Graphics with a pinch of salt!

*8 in December.

Trendy, me.

Managed to write reviews for all books this year!Woah, what a surprise! (not)

I don’t quite get this one. Pages laid out end of end or back to back like in a book?

Storygraph had no such fun email but have great stats throughout the year in addition to their yearly wrap up. 

70 books!!

December had a nice pick up tick (panic to get to a nice round number by the year's end). 

Fantasy strikes again.

1000 paged book! I carried it around in hardback too. An average of 431 pages per book too, nice and chunky.

Some smashing reads this year! Expected favourites from brilliant authors (Suzanne Collins, Rebecca Yarros, V.E. Schwab), and some new discoveries (Emily Hauser, James Islington). 

Just 1 reread, I'm surprised!

A good chunk of nonfiction too. 

Nearly 50% audiobooks, thanks to the 5 months of commuting this year. And I did manage a good amount of my own books, yay!

I've not yet got a goal for this year, but there are several books I'm excited to read. Watch this space!

Happy New Year!

What a lovely city we live in! A few pics of the pretty castle in blue skies. 

Managed to stay up until 00:02 on NYE - well done me.