No real news for the month. So, without further ado…
On with the stats!
June stats:
337 reviews (July 2016 saw 298 reviews)
Average rating: 3.65 stars (June: 3.72)
Most popular book: Unfinished: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe by our very own Elizabeth Periale (4 reviews, 4.00 average,)
Most popular author: LM Montgomery (11 reviews, 4.20 average)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 55 reviews!)
Fiction: 267 reviews (June 215)
Nonfiction: 74 reviews (June: 66)
Uncategorized: 2 reviews (June: 0)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (47 reviews), Young Adult (29) Science Fiction (31), Romance (27), Mystery (35), Memoir (24), Graphic Novel (31), History (16)
Male authors: 143 (June: 118)
Female authors: 184 (June: 162)
Oldest book read this month: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum (1900)
Books from 2017: 52 (June: 51)
Books from the last 10 years: 220 (June: 220)
Most common languages: English (92%), Swedish (1.2%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.95 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 55,992
Avg. page count: 328
Longest book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Average author age: 47
Youngest author: Olive Moore, Spleen (25 years old)
Oldest author: Oliver Sacks , On the Move (82)
Books read for the first time: 175 (May: 153)
Book with the most CBR reviews: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (36 reviews)
Most popular book by Goodreads reviews: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Total pages read: 105,000+ (May: 87,000+)
Top 10 Reviewers averages:
vel veeter (55 reviews, 3.57 stars, 283 pages, year 1987)
badkittyuno (27 reviews, 3.69 stars, 315 pages, year 2008)
bonnie (25 reviews, 3.76 stars, 331 pages, year 1967)
emmalita (21 reviews, 3.45 stars, 208 pages, year 2012)
melanir (15 reviews, 3.46 stars, 293 pages, year 1991)
kella (11 reviews, 4.09 stars, 413 pages, year 2013)
Caitlin_D (10 reviews, 3.70 stars, 289 pages, year 2005)
Lollygagger (10 reviews, 3.80 stars, 282 pages, year 2014)
Malin (10 reviews, 3.5 stars, 362 pages, year 2015)
faintingviolet (8 reviews, 3.63 stars, 303 pages, year 2016)
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)
July – 337 (vel veeter)
CBR Database:
15,915 reviews*
9,120 individual books reviewed
Top 15 Reviewers of All Time: (italics for those who are active)
Malin (921)**
badkittyuno (906)
narfna (695)
bonnie (668)
Jen K (516)
alwaysanswerb (410)
Mrs. Julien (398)
faintingviolet (373)
scootsa1000 (371)
Valyruh (364)
Travis_J_Smith (353)
Caitlin_D (326)
Caitlin (324)
vel veeter (317)
Lollygagger (309)
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 haves 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 23,600 reviews have been written by the community to help raise money to fight cancer. So I’ve catalogued roughly 68% of our reviews.
**Malin was gracious enough to go back through her blog and make it easier to search and count her reviews. I noticed a discrepancy in my counts compared to hers. I haven’t had the time to update her career review total – but I will. And I do appreciate all the hard work she put into helping us out in this.
It doesn’t fit in well with your format, but let us not forget the 3rd of July. While the rest of us were loafing about, Bonnie posted 25 separate reviews in one day. Included in this were all the Anne of Green Gables books and the Percy Jackson series. I think you discovered that it was not the most reviews ever posted by a Cannonballer in a day, but it was still impressive.
Excellent memory. I should’ve made a note of that.
Remember, remember!
The Third of July
When bonnie took over the site.
I know of no reason
Why this summer season
Should ever be forgot!
All other Cannonballers
must scheme and contrive
to post their reviews
and reach the top of the
leaderboard in stride.
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
Fearless Leader, fearless poet.
Take all my upvotes!
I feel like bonnie is holding a lighter to my toes . . .
I feel the same with scoots.
I’m coming for you.
Aaahhh!!!!
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Oh, jeez, she’s super close to you! Better get reviewing!
Thanks for indicating who is inactive! Cracking the Top Ten feels a bit more possible now :)
You’re welcome. I should’ve been doing that from the start.
I think, next month, I’m going to highlight them in a different way. So it’ll be more clear.
Is there a place to enter some of this data to make it easier for you to compile? I mean, it’s not impossible to add author ages and publication dates somewhere if it helps at all.
I had planned on making a Google docs spreadsheet that could be edited by anyone wanting to lend a hand (thereby also making the database available to everyone). Maybe I’ll get that going and have it ready by the next round-up.