September Stat Round-up! (finally)

I’m so sorry for the massive delay! I’ve been crazy sick for the last month, and am still racked with a pretty bad cough. I am proportionately behind on my reviews (and, to a lesser extent, my reading). Doesn’t look like I’ll be hitting my planned double Cannonball. Sorry again, you guys. I am alive, and I haven’t abandoned the CBR.

Per request, I’ve started a Google spreadsheet that can be edited by anyone who follows this link. So far, I’ve only uploaded CBR8, but I’ll go back and add CBR6 and CBR7. I’m used to Excel, and I haven’t really played around with Google spreadsheets, but the document can be sorted and edited without much trouble (I think). If any changes are made, please make some notation in the first column so that I can update the master database. So feel free to participate as much (or little) as you like.

On with the stats!

September stats:
245 reviews (Last month: 227)
Average rating: 3.75 stars (Last month: 3.69)
Most popular book: It by Stephen King (3 reviews, 5.0 average)
Most popular author: JK Rowling (Harry Potter re-read! 7 reviews, 5.0 average)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 38 reviews!)
Fiction: 191 reviews (Last month: 166)
Nonfiction: 50 reviews (Last month: 50)
Uncategorized: 3 reviews (Last month: 5)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (30 reviews), Young Adult (19) Science Fiction (18), Romance (34), Mystery (25), Memoir (21), Graphic Novel (20), History (8)
Male authors: 99 (Last month: 98)
Female authors: 144 (Last month: 128)
Oldest book read this month: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (1908)
Books from 2017: 59 (Last month: 44)
Books from the last 10 years: 180 (Last month: 162)
Most common languages: English (90.2%), Italian (1.6%), French (0.8%), Japanese (0.8%), Spanish (0.8%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 4.00 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 108,256
Avg. page count: 361
Longest book: It by Stephen King
Average author age: 47
Youngest author: Leila Sales and Sarah J Maas (29 years old)
Oldest author: Alan Bradley (77)
Books read for the first time: 132 (Last month: 116)
Book with the most CBR reviews: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (43 reviews)
Most popular book by Goodreads reviews: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling (4.4m votes)
Total pages read: 85,000+ (Last month: 75,000+)

Top 10 Reviewers averages:
vel veeter (38 reviews, 3.50 stars, 323 pages, year 1998)
narfna (24 reviews, 4.09 stars, 367 pages, year 2003)
Mrs. Julien (11 reviews, 2.6 stars, 375 pages, year 2015)
Malin (14 reviews, 3.9 stars, 387 pages, year 2014)
Halbs (11 reviews, 3.5 stars, 187 pages, year 2005)
Caitlin_D (9 reviews, 3.4 stars, 317 pages, year 2013)
emmalita (8 reviews, 3.6 stars, 358 pages, year 2012)
mathildehoeg (8 reviews, 4.9 stars, 600 pages, year 2003)
melanir (8 reviews, 3.4 stars, 350 pages, year 2005)
kfishgirl (7 reviews, 3.3 stars, 311 pages, year 2014)

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)
Aug – 227 (vel veeter)
Sep – 245 (vel veeter)

CBR Database:
16,576 reviews*
9,443  individual books reviewed

Top 16 Reviewers of All Time: (italics and bold for those who have been active recently, plum is someone who moved up this month)
1. Malin (938)**
2. badkittyuno (906)
3. narfna (730)
4. bonnie (681)
5. Jen K (523)
6. Sophia (448)
7. alwaysanswerb (410)
8. Mrs. Julien (409)
9. vel veeter (395)
10. faintingviolet (384)
11. scootsa1000 (373)
12. Valyruh (364)
13. Travis_J_Smith (353)
14. Caitlin_D (351)
15. Caitlin (329)

Just outside the top 15: Lollygagger (325) and ElCicco (312)

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 (where is she?!), bonnie and narfna are racing for 3rd on the all-time list, could vel veeter crack the top 5 in his first year?! (he jumped into the top 10 last month), and Caitlin, Lollygagger, and ElCicco are in a race for who is going to round out the top 15!

If anyone has suggestions for what else they want to see in the monthly stat round-up, just let me know.

*My tentative user totals for CBR1-9 show that nearly 25k reviews have been written by the community to help raise money to fight cancer. 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.