1. Year in Books 2024

Hello everyone! Hope you guys are doing great. I have returned to the platfrom almost one and a half months later. But let's not talk about that. So, today I will be sharing my reading journey for the last year. I have been on Goodreads since 2016. So naturally, it is the place of my tracking. Although, sometimes I think, I do not possess the love for books like the old times, rather it is a process of not letting another old habit of mine die. It seems I am on the goodreads for showing off. In the year 2023, I read **69** books! Which motivated me to go even higher. As a result, I set **72** books for the 2024 reading challenge. But things were not looking great! It seemed I would not be able to complete the challenge. But, my **EGO**! That will not take this downfall easily. So, I kind of cheated. Somehow, I managed to barely pass the challenge.  While writing this, I found out I have collected some achievements. Which is a new thing to me.  Now about the cheating, I listened to many audiobooks last year, but still that was not cutting it, so I went after comics to finish the challenge. And I did enjoy reading [DCeases](https://www.goodreads.com/series/290450-dceased-collected-editions) run quite a lot! I'm glad I read it. I have also enjoyed [V for Vendetta](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13095934-v-for-vendetta), although in the middle chapters, I was somewhat bored and could not grasp what was happening. During the last hour of 2024, I picked up [Asterix and the Golden Sickle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122439.Asterix_and_the_Golden_Sickle) and this marks the 72^nd book of 2024. Here are some statistics provided by the goodread's year in books feature: ||| |-|-| ||| In 2023, I discovered a cool site developed by Eric named [myyearinbooks](https://www.myyearinbooks.com/). It shows a lot more statistics than the Goodreads. There is a slight difference in the page numbers. Goodreads shows I read 10,813 pages in 2024, and myyearinbooks shows 10,742 books. Even if it discards the page number of the previously read books, which I re-read again, it still would not be that number. So, I will not be bothered by it. I liked the minutes it shows. 18,261 minutes! That's quite a lot.  It also shows the genres I read and how many books of that genre I read.  Books per month is a common statistic that is found on both sites. But Goodreads does not allow showing one year; rather, it shows all the years. | ***Goodreads*** | ***myyearinbooks*** | |-|-| ||| The publication years of the books I read are also neatly presented on the myyearinbooks site. Goodreads should upgrade it's game. | ***myyearinbooks*** | ***Goodreads*** | |-|-| ||| Okay, it was only about the non-academic books. But last year I picked up another habit of tracking pages I read across everything. This includes fiction, nonfiction, academic, religious, papers, and even sites converted to pages!  So, this total number is now **17,368** pages. Average pages per month are nearly 1,448 pages. This shows my daily average reading is almost 48 pages. Which is low, I will admit it. What will be my challenge for 2025? Nothing! I will ease it down a notch. What are my plans and resolutions? Well, if I had any, clearly you would have guessed it that I am not good at that kind of thing. But I have something in my head and will not express those to spoil me even more. Thanks for your time. Bye for today. Hopefully I will return soon with some other gibberish.