READING (and other) STATS for 2025!

  READING STATS for 2025

(We'll be doing a LIVE STREAM again on the Booktube channel. Tori and I will be discussing our stats and we hope you all join in and share yours along with us. It will be Sunday January 11 at 3:00 pm MST... click here to find us. )

TOTAL BOOKS: 66 (Goal was 60!)

Total pages: 20,580
Total Re-reads: 0

Average Length of book: 314

Authors
Men:  17
Women: 51
New-to-me authors: 35

For:
Review for an author:  4

AML Award: 0
Book Club: 10

Readathon/Events: 9 

Forced Phase: 2

Beta Reads: 1

Readalong/Buddy Reads: 1

Banned Books: 0

Fun: 40

Part of a series:19

From:
Print books from the library: 5
eBooks: 20

Print books: 35
Borrowed: 1
Audio: 13

Books I own: 36 

Categories:
YA: 21
Adult: 41
Middle Grade:  4


Genres from the YA Category:
Contemporary Realistic Fiction or Romance: 13
SF/Fantasy: 4

Historical Fiction: 1 

Graphic Novel: 1

Dystopian: 2

Genres from the MG Category:

Fantasy: 0

Graphic Novel: 3 

Contemporary: 1

Genres from the Adult Category:
Historical Fiction: 5
Science Fiction an Fantasy: 4

Dystopian: 0

Romance: 5

Literary Fiction: 5
Memoirs: 6

Other Nonfiction:  5

Classic: 6

Mystery: 3

Horror: 1

Star Ratings:
5 stars: 8

4.5: 5
4 stars:  31

3.5: 8
3 stars: 10
2 stars: 2

1 star: 0

Average Rating: 3.89

Observations:

• Happy to report that starting The Classic Six Challenge absolutely did help me to add more classics to my line up. I will be doing it for 2026 so if you want to join in on the Storygraph page you can click here!  Most of my classics would be considered science fiction. Next year I want to read more romance classics!
• Loving all the memoirs I've been consuming.
• I went from 7 audio books last year to 13 this year. That number really does continue to go up!
• I wanted to add manga to my line up this year... I only read one I would consider manga and it was a middle grade zombie story full of potty humor. Not what I had in mind! LOL!
• Not sure exactly where to put the Emma M. Lion books. I had them in romance at first but have moved them to historical fiction. What do you think?

KDRAMA STATS

I don't think I even watched a kdrama this year. What the heck is up with that? If I did I can't remember what it was. I do know I was in the middle of one that I never finished. I just put a lot more time into reading (and writing) this year. 

YOUTUBE STATS:

The Kpop Konverters

Total videos uploaded in 2025: 3

Subscribers at year end: 40,662

View count at year end: 19,790,718 

So I said was going to quit this channel, and I pretty much did. And yet it still grew by 400 subscribers. Twice as much as my book channel which I am pouring my heart and soul into. I also got 500,000 more views this year. All on old content. It's so not fair. I just want to SCREAM! AHHHHH!!

Suey's Book Banter 

Total videos uploaded in 2025: 121 long videos, 78 shorts

Total Views at year end: 337,904

Total Subscribers at year end: 1,597

So I grew by a couple hundred subscribers in the whole freaking year. Woot. Sigh. I want this channel to do well so bad and it's just... not. 

WRITING STATS:

Should I add writing stats to the year end number crunch?

A Breath of Starlight

Current word count: 92,784

Status: beta reader feedback has been received

Soon to be getting a complete overhaul using reader feedback with plans to query.

The Adventures of Samantha Sawyer

Current word count: 47,967

Status: About half done? Maybe 3/4 done?

Still in draft mode and getting feedback from alpha readers (writing group peeps.)

Always Best Buds

Current word count: 65,025

Status: being turned into a semi-graphic novel

Will hopefully be a guinea pig for self publishing.

Indian Summer (needs new title)

Current word count: 83,842

Status: on hold

Plans to completely revise it, changing up the genre and the intended audience.

Weeping Rayne

Current word count: 41,489

Status: on hold

About half drafted. Not sure what to do with this one. Is it worth reviving at some point?

Love the Boy Band (working title not real title!)

Current word count: 18,604

Status: on hold

About 2/3 drafted. Not sure I'll ever finish this one even though I'm love with the characters.

Bookish and Kdrama-ish and YouTube-ish Numbers for 2021

 

Pretty sure at this point no one cares about these numbers, but I find it interesting for my own observation. 

READING STATS

TOTAL BOOKS: 37 (Goal was 45)
Total pages: 10,174
Total Re-reads: 0

Authors
Men: 4
Women: 28

For:
ARCS for Review: 1
Supporting Utah Authors: 4
Book Club: 10
Beehive Award Long List: 4

Middle Grade AML Judging: 9

From:
Library: 6
On my Kindle: 12
Bought/Owned: 19
Borrowed: 0
Audio: 0

Genres:
YA: 14
Adult: 15
Middle Grade: 8


From the YA Category:
Contemporary Realistic Fiction: 7
SF/Fantasy: 5

Dystopian: 2

Historical Fiction: 0

Graphic Novel: 0

  

From the MG Category:
Fantasy: 3

Contemporary: 4

Historical Fiction: 1

From the Adult Category:
Historical Fiction: 2
Fantasy: 3

Romance: 6

Literary Fiction: 2
Non Fiction: 2


Star Ratings:
5 stars: 3
4 stars: 24
3 stars: 10
2 stars: 0
1 star: 0

Observations: 

* Clearly I'm setting my goal too high still. I think I brought it back down to 40 this year. I still want to make it something I have to reach for, you know? I know I can make 30, but 40 seems to be pushing it! I wonder if I'll do it this year! I haven't made my Goodreads goal for years now. LOL. Sigh.

* Adult reading surpassed YA this year. Thanks to book club and reading all of Trish's books. Lol! And I'm determined to read more adult books again this year. Not that I'm not enjoying YA still. But I need something more lately I think.

* I really enjoyed the middle grade reading project from last year. That always surprises me!

* Everything mostly seems to be status quo these days. Pretty boring around here regarding reading.

KDRAMA STATS

Total Kdramas consumed: 20

5 hearts: 6
4 hearts: 9
3 hearts: 4

2 hearts: 1

I just still love these kdramas so much. Seriously, if you keep reading about me gushing about them, but haven't tried one yourself yet, now is the time. This is the year! Netflix has figured it out and SO MANY are on there now. So no excuses! Just try it! It's starting to be more normal and no one will think you are weird or anything! And, in case you missed it, here's a link to my top ten post Kdrama post for the year!

YOUTUBE STATS

Total Videos Uploaded on The Kpop Konverters: 1,225 (up from 1,137 last year)
Total Uploaded in 2021: 88 (down big time from 204)
3 million views: 1 
Over 100,000 views:  23 (up from 20)
50,000 to 100,000 views: 21 (up from 20 last year)
10,000 to 50,000 views:112 (up from 102)


Subscribers at year end: 35,037  (up from 32, 298 last year) 
View count at year end: 15, 245, 831 (up from 13, 575, 314 last year)

Observations:

* Our one really popular video appears to be finally slowing down after three years (or four?) since being uploaded.

* Wow, I made a ton less videos this year than previous years. Sad. I am floundering in my direction for this channel.

* Other popular videos continue to get views. So fascinating to me. New videos are not getting views. People love reactions and they don't like compilations. That's the bottom line. And all I want to do these days is compilations. Or edits. If you are interested AT ALL in the sort of videos I make, here's my favorite from this year... and it's very short. But gives you an idea:

* Anyway. I guess for now I'm still at it. I am compelled to edit videos. And I guess for now it will continue to be kpop stuff!

2007 Review: By The Numbers

One of my favorite things about doing a "reading journal", which I started back in 2002, is crunching the numbers at the end of the year. Why do I find this so fascinating? Well, hopefully, many of you will just understand this fettish, because it's too hard to explain!

Total Books Read: 100
(wow! I've NEVER come close to this before! I think it's because of the craziness I had for YA books recently and because I started reading while walking on the treadmill...that's 17 books right there!)

Genres:
NF: 4
Classic: 6
General Fiction: 33
YA: 57

Authors:
Men: 37
Women: 63

Borrowed from library: 58
Owned: 40
Borrowed from other: 2

Book Clubs and Challenges (some crossover here):
Read for book clubs (online and f2f): 18
Read for challenges: 29
Read on own for the fun of it: 47

Total Pages: 33,402

And with that I end the year and complete a notebook! On to 2008!