Category Archives: charts, charts, charts

2017: The Charts and a Goals Update

Last year’s reading as seen through charts My absolute favourite book blog thing to do each year is reflecting on my year’s reading through a series of charts. Because I can more than because it is meaningful. The first chart … Continue reading

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2016: The charts

I realised a couple of months ago that I have 10 years worth of reading data in one place or another. So I spent a little time over a rainy weekend splicing it all together in a single spreadsheet so that I … Continue reading

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2013: The Charts

One of my favourite things to do at the end of the year is to review my year’s reading in statistical charts and I choose not to ponder what weird thing this says about my personality. However peculiar, it is … Continue reading

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Who wins (when achieving a goal turns out to be a hollow victory)?

One of my book-related goals this year is to only buy books in Australia (audio books excluded as these are not easily available in a downloadable format here and I need my audio fix). I knew this would mean I … Continue reading

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2012: The Charts

As has become a bit of a personal tradition I like to reflect on my year’s reading in a couple of ways…the first is with a series of meaningless but prettily coloured charts that purport to be some kind of … Continue reading

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2011: The Charts

These are, of course, entirely meaningless to anyone but me but it’s too damned hot here to do much else than make pretty charts and hide from the sun. I read more than ever last year (178 books) which surprises … Continue reading

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Books of the Month – March 2011

Book of the month My book of the month ‘award’ has to go to the last one I finished reading, Denise Mina’s Exile. It has everything I look for in any kind of fiction: superb writing, complex and interesting characters, … Continue reading

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2010 – The Favourites

It has become a tradition for me to list my top ten reads of each year since starting this blog (yes I know it’s only 2 and a bit years but traditions have to start somewhere) but it is becoming … Continue reading

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2010 – The Charts (well most of them)

Paying homage to books via coloured charts is now one of my favourite things to do at the end of each blogging year and as I have finished the last book I am going to finish for the year here … Continue reading

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Books of the Month – October 2010

That Was Then I finished another 15 books during October (a couple of reviews still to come). Although I didn’t have any 5-star reads it was a high quality month with nothing rating below a 3. My pick of the … Continue reading

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