{"id":63,"date":"2021-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/staging\/4750\/?p=63"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:04:10","slug":"2020-books-my-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/2020-books-my-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Books &#8211; My Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hghqPrKOW6k\/X-4J5ojCjZI\/AAAAAAAAJWA\/ZjP3w1mx0nEj0rrW27IzXHGpSejzG7IHQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1662\/2A755419-03C3-4617-BD34-A6CA89DCA612.png?ssl=1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1164\" data-original-width=\"1662\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/staging\/4750\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2A755419-03C3-4617-BD34-A6CA89DCA612.png?resize=640%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Happy New Year everyone! &nbsp;As we start a New Year, (and hopefully a more normal one), I wanted to reflect on my year in books for 2020.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Goodreads is a great resource for collecting information about reading habits in the course of a year.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s some interesting reading about 2020 gleamed from this resource:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>I&#8217;ve read 118 books with 38,723 pages read<\/li>\n<li>My shortest book was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lXBJbZ\" class=\"broken_link\">Mistletoe in Paradise<\/a> (novella) which was 89 pages<\/li>\n<li>My longest book was&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2MrnkJ7\" class=\"broken_link\">Hello, Summer<\/a> at 472 pages<\/li>\n<li>My average book length in 2020 was 328 pages.<\/li>\n<li>My most popular book as defined by the number of people who also shelved a book was <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3506J5h\" class=\"broken_link\">The Vanishing Half<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The least popular book as defined by the number of people who also shelved a book was <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2SzCY4K\" class=\"broken_link\">All The Acorns on the Forest Floor<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My average Goodreads rating was 4.1 which shows I&#8217;ve selected the books I believe are a good fit for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My blog stats also provides some interesting information:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>The book that brought the most views to my blog (for reviews already published) was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HNzWb2\" class=\"broken_link\">In a Holidaze<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The books that generated the most comments on my blog were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/GoodNt\" class=\"broken_link\">Goodnight Beautiful<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3otsQsZ\" class=\"broken_link\">Love Your Life<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/li>\n<li>My favourite books of 2020 were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/31jt4K828summers\">28 Summers<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3i2B87A\" class=\"broken_link\">Anxious People<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/li>\n<li>The book that surprised me how much I enjoyed it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/37t9PAY\" class=\"broken_link\">Dear Emmie Blue. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I really appreciate all the support I&#8217;ve received in 2020 &#8211; my first full year blogging.&nbsp; It warms my heart to see in my blog comments that many of you are discovering new books based on my reviews.&nbsp; I really appreciate those of you who have subscribed to my blog.&nbsp; Publishers look at stats such as the number of subscribers a blog has when determining whether or not to grant approval for a book so when you subscribe it gives me access to some great books.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I wish you all a Happy, Healthy and Successful 2021!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: medium;\">Jodie<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That Happy Reader<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year everyone! &nbsp;As we start a New Year, (and hopefully a more normal one), I wanted to reflect on my year in books for 2020. 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