Big news of the month, vel veeter has tied badkittyuno’s single year record with her 263 review (by my count)! Congratulations vel veeter!
On with the stats!
June stats:
283 reviews (June 2016 saw 252 reviews)
Average rating: 3.72 stars (May: 3.64)
Most popular book: Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman (4 reviews,3.50 average,)
Most popular author: Stephen King (7 reviews, 4.30 average)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 34 reviews!)
Fiction: 215 reviews (May: 223)
Nonfiction: 66 reviews (May: 54)
Uncategorized: 0 reviews (May: 2)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (52 reviews), Young Adult (26) Science Fiction (29), Romance (37), Mystery (22), Memoir (23), Graphic Novel (18), History (19)
Male authors: 118 (May: 100)
Female authors: 162 (May: 173)
Oldest book read this month: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Books from 2017: 51 (May: 49)
Books from the last 10 years: 220 (May: 201)
Most common languages: English (94%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 4.00 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 63,297
Avg. page count: 314
Longest book: Cider House Rules by John Irving
Average author age: 47
Youngest author: Malala Yousafzai (15 years old)
Oldest author: Ursula K Le Guin, Lavinia (79)
Books read for the first time: 153 (May: 130)
Book with the most CBR reviews: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (41 reviews)
Most popular book by Goodreads reviews: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Total pages read: 87,000+ (May: 88,000+)
Top 10 Reviewers averages:
vel veeter (34 reviews, 3.30 stars, 241 pages)
emmalita (16 reviews, 4.10 stars, 259 pages)
The Chancellor (15 reviews, 3.60 stars, 325 pages)
Lollygagger (11 reviews, 3.70 stars, 278 pages)
alwaysanswerb (9 reviews, 4.40 stars, 397 pages)
narfna (9 reviews, 3.80 stars, 309 pages)
Ealbrecht (8 reviews, 4.30 stars, 372 pages)
Lane (8 reviews, 5.0 stars, 258 pages)
Mikki Blu (8 reviews, 3.90 stars, 318 pages)
Our monthly review breakdown (and leader):
Jan – 502 (vel veeter)
Feb – 431 (Classic)
Mar – 446 (vel veeter)
Apr – 392 (vel veeter)
May – 280 (vel veeter)
June – 283 (vel veeter)
CBR Database:
15,439 reviews*
8,574 individual books reviewed
Top Reviewers of All Time:
Malin (910)
badkittyuno (880)
narfna (688)
bonnie (666)
Jen K (516)
alwaysanswerb (410)
Mrs. Julien (398)
scootsa1000 (366)
faintingviolet (365)
Valyruh (364)
Travis_J_Smith (353)
Caitlin (318)
Caitlin_D (315)
I have Goodreads data on 86% of reviews, sex info on 97% of authors, and the nationality on 82% of authors.
I’m still, of course, in the process of going back through CBR3-5, along with various blogs for CBR1 and 2, not to mention the Pajiba reviews section of the mothership (though, I’ve only done a handful). I think I’ve got the total review counts for CBR4-9 (though I haven’t logged each review yet), and I’ve got most of CBR3 done. So my all time ranking is, I think, fairly accurate. Big changes to look forward to: badkittyuno might catch Malin this year, bonnie and narfna are racing for 3rd on the all-time list, vel veeter may crack the top 10 in his first year, and both Caitlin and Caitlin_D has a chance of breaking in to the top 10, as well.
If anyone has suggestions for what else they want to see in the monthly stat round-up, just let me know. I’ve temporarily put the brakes on the Google Docs file for community edit.
*My user totals for CBR1-9 show that approximately 23,000 reviews have been written by the community to help raise money to fight cancer. So I’ve catalogued roughly 68% of our reviews.
I still love these but today it’s making me feel like a really big slacker.
Maybe July will be my month!
Look at it this way, the CBR is a marathon, not a sprint.
You’re in good company.
Back in the game!
I clearly need to step up both my reading and reviewing game to keep Badkittyuno from taking my top spot of all time. Only 30 reviews separating us, that’s nothing.
Well, you may be able to breath a little easier with the knowledge that I have two different totals for you.
I don’t have all 900+ of your reviews in the database yet, but it seems that your counts may be slightly off. Going by your stated review counts each year, I think it comes out to 945,but my count comes to 910. I haven’t yet located the cause of the discrepancy.
Well, all of my reviews, going back to the very beginning are on my personal blog. For the first few years, when we didn’t have a group blog, we were free to just post our reviews on any old blog. So you would be able to find all of them (way back to 2009, when I started) there, if that would help with your tireless logging efforts.
I’m so impressed with the work you’re doing. I look forward to your stat posts every month.
Oh, believe me, I’ve got your blog bookmarked. It’s just a matter of going through every review and transferring the information.
I’m a little OCD about things, and for any review that doesn’t have a star rating, I read the review and try to assign one based on the opinion ions expressed.
Which means 99% of pre-CBR4 reviews have to be read by me.
It’s just another wrinkle that makes this whole endeavor challenging, rewarding, and possibly a bit insane.
I could go back and assign star ratings, I still have five glorious weeks of summer vacation ahead of me and very few plans. I most likely assigned star ratings to the books in Goodreads, and you’re already doing such great work compiling everything. It might be a fun project for me, actually.
I certainly won’t say no, lol.
I just added over 100 CBR1 reviews from someone last night who frequently never said whether or not they liked the books.
Gah!
Having now in fact gone back to 2009 and started, I am actually really enjoying myself. I also didn’t really tag my reviews as carefully back then, so my blog will now be a lot more easy to search, once I tag author names, title of books and give the books star ratings. I’m starting at 2009 and moving forwards, so give it a week or so, and I should have gotten everything updated.
Awesome, thanks!
I actually really enjoy doing the database. It can be an almost meditative process.
::does some quick math, discovers can possibly – even probably – get to more than 400 reviews total this year, dances excitedly::
My personal goal for the year would put me in the top 10 assuming TJS and the other Caitlin don’t review anymore this year haha
You’re probably in luck. TJS used to be a monster reviewer, but he doesn’t write nearly so much these days.
You never know, though.
I believe in you!
I have 19 reviews to post — halp!