2020 End of the year Survey
Officially the reading is done for the year. I have been a bit busy and not necessarily with reading. I am trying to reorganize my books and I just decided to complete the list of all the books I own. I should have done this before but I didn't so now I have too many to gather at once.
I have been building an Excel spreadsheet where I will place all the books I own. The downside? I did not plan on what to include so I kept going back to add a few more details to the list. Anyhow, I am still not done but that is what I have been doing the last few days.
Going back to the actual topic of my post today. This survey was created and Shared by you can find the original post for the 2020 version here https://www.perpetualpageturner.com/2019-end-of-year-book-survey/
Go check it out.
I will start with the questions there are a lot of them so I will probably not do all of them so this post is not so huge. Also, the end of the year stats is not done yet. But I will bring those a bit later. this will give you a sneak peek at those.
2020 Reading Stats
Number Of Books You Read: 275
Number of Re-Reads: 25. This makes it a 9%, it's pretty close to my original idea of 10%
Genre You Read The Most From: In the first place we have graphic novels/Manga, followed by Fantasy and Sci-fi.
Best in books
1. Best Book You Read In 2020?This is a very very tough one. I have such a hard time picking the favorite. I have read some amazing books. I did reread some amazing books but let's talk about the one I read for the first time. I will go with Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, this is not a 2020 release but I did read it for the first time this year. By now I assume everyone and their mother knows Sanderson writes mainly Fantasy and he is amazing. I loved the story, we follow a few different people who are living in this country right beside or in some cases inside Elantris. Elantris was once a place of magic and wonder but now it's a cursed place. We have a few mentions of romance, political intrigue, and magic, in perfect combination!
3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?
4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)?
I have pushed many people to read one of my favorite series The raven cycle by Maggie Stiefvater but so far not much success at least not with people I know. So that's half a point for me.
5. Best series you started in 2020? Best Sequel? Best Series Ender of 2020?
For the best sequel and ender, I will use once more a Sanderson book. The Mistborn trilogy, I finally read the second and third book in the series and they were phenomenal. I can't believe it took me this long to get through it.
6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2020?
8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?
For this, it was not even a thriller but I just couldn't put it down. I read Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky and I was just eating it up. Even the sequel I couldn't stop until I knew how it would turn out because I was so captured by the story. We follow a group of humans who are traveling through space to get to a terraformed planet (a planet to get it to be similar to the Earth and allow humans to live in it). The planet they arrive (talking about the first book children of Ruin) already has a sentient species, giant spiders.
9. Book You Read In 2020 That You Would Be MOST Likely To Re-Read Next Year?
So as there are a lot of questions I will skip a few but will keep the original question number for them so it's easier to locate compared to the original post in case anyone wants to do it themselves and compare our answers. Feel free to share in the comments your stats or your favorite book of the year. I would love to know!
16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2020?
The shortest book was a short story yo no la mate by Fernando Trujillo Saenz (I did not kill her). This is a Spanish author I have recently read a few works by and enjoyed them so I found his short story and gave it a go. It was a very interesting one, the ending was one I didn't expect.
The longest was The stand by Stephen King. This one was also one I was very happy to get to. It was a funny thing to pick up right now talking about a pandemic but let's be real, the one in the book is so much worse especially if you add the Dark one invading your dreams! It was also likely that the first book of the Stormlight Archive was the longest but let's be honest I already talked about Sanderson.
17. Book That Shocked You The Most
(Because of a plot twist, character death, left you hanging with your mouth wide open, etc.)
18. OTP OF THE YEAR (you will go down with this ship!)
(OTP = one true pairing if you aren’t familiar) I didn't read many romance books and from the ones, I read that include romance. none really stand out. I might regret it and remember one after I am done with the post but let's say none for now.
19. Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year
21. Best Book You Read In 2020 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure/Bookstagram, Etc.:
22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2020?
25. Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?
29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2020?
30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?
Again trying to not cheat but I am using another book of a series I have talked about plenty. Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell. I just hated the situations they were placed on, the twists, the people oh it was so frustrating. I was angry all through the book, I wanted to throw it away but still needed to continue because I wanted to know the resolution of the whole thing. Anyway, I enjoyed my time, if a book makes you feel so much and yet you still feel connected to the story itself, then that's a very positive point for them.
Your Blogging/Bookish life
1. New favorite book blog/Bookstagram/Youtube channel you discovered in 2020?2. Favorite post you wrote in 2020?
Hard to decide a favorite. I have liked the contact I've posted the last few months. But my favorites were maybe at the beginning of 2020. Check out my bookish reviews but I have the most fun in the monthly wrap-ups, I just love the stats! Check out my wrap-up if you also find that eye-catching.
5. Best moment of bookish/blogging life in 2020?
6. Most challenging thing about blogging or your reading life this year?
9. Best bookish discover (book related sites, book stores, etc.)? I found the website Storygraph. I will try to use it and see what I like best if GoodReads or Storygraph. It seems promising and the fact that it gives such fun review options and tags like define the pace, define a few aspects of the characters, etc. It feels like a good option. I'll see what happens.
10. Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year? It's difficult to say, I haven't really taken a look at all of them but I know for sure some were complete failures. I did read more than the 225 books I set as a goal and managed to post more often here.
2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2021 (non-debut)?
4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2021? So again the one mentioned before in questions one and two.
5. One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2021?
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