I’m not going to lie, I slacked off a lot on this towards the end of the month, and was having a hell of a time playing catch-up pre-election. I used the shock and dismay after last night to power through the last few days of reviews. Anyway. I’m going to start doing something different, going forward. It can be pretty time consuming organizing all this information, so I think I’m going to stop updating the yearly information every month, and instead make one culminating […]

My most recent addition to the database is the birth year for each author (when available). I want to see the age at which authors are publishing their books. I just started doing this a few days ago, though, so I don’t have that information for most books. Look for it next month. September stats: 226 reviews (-29% from last month) Average rating: 3.61 stars (-1.4%) Most popular book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (4 reviews; 4.25 avg) Most popular author: Eric Van Lustbader […]

Okay, I did a good job this month keeping up to date with the Goodreads information on all the reviews. I’ve added the page count for each book. August stats: 318 reviews (+7% from last month) Average rating: 3.66 stars (+1.1%) Most popular book: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (7 reviews; 4.21 avg) Most popular author: Sherman Alexie (7 reviews) Most reviews: narfna (congratulations!; 28 reviews) Fiction: 251 reviews (+2.8%) Nonfiction: 60 reviews (13.3%) Uncategorized: 10 reviews (+90%) Most […]