"stats day": *grabs popcorn*

@katiedalton9841

6 ай бұрын

Yes! Love stats day

2023 was my first year tracking my reading (I use StoryGraph which is great! Highly recommend!) and fantasy definitely blew all of the other genres out of the water. Surprisingly, it was an almost even split between books that had less than 300 pages and between 300-500 pages. I’m excited to see how this year goes. I love your sweater!

@maddielc204

6 ай бұрын

I was literally just looking for a book tracker, so thank you for the recommendation! Going to download the app now!

I love looking at reading stats! Part of the reason I love Storygraph so much is because it does it all for me without me having to do much, but it's interesting to see things you've tracked like author race and gender

My stats for 2023 were: 26 books, Shortest Book 184 pages, Longest Book 1477 pages, Average book length 738 pages, My average rating 4.2. This year I want to read 25 books.

@dianapeach

6 ай бұрын

That is an amazing average. Quality over quantity. Very cool.

I love stats! I do not use an app though, I do them by hand. Read 52 books last year and I would be happy to read as many in 2024. I am TRYING to read only books I already own and haven't read. 🤞

Yes to the cat videos please. Your challenges are always fun to watch.

Just wanted to say thanks for introducing me to Becky Chambers. I'm about to finish my first book by her and absolutely loved it 😊

@Rainbopagn

6 ай бұрын

Monk and Robot duology!! And To Be Taught if Fortunate! She’s amazing

Yes to more cat videos, please! 🐈🐈Meh to tiktok 🤷‍♀️ My male/female author ratio is even more skewed than yours, and when I do read books by male authors they tend to have female main characters. Some of it is definitely me intentionally picking female authors but mainly because, as a woman, I’m simply more interested in the female point of view.

@Akuliszi

6 ай бұрын

Cat tiktok might be good

@arobinreads

5 ай бұрын

Makes a lot of sense. As a guy I like to read from a male perspective. But I do prefer women writing those characters which is interesting haha

I love the stats video every year! Also your glasses are so cute!!! Great video!

Looove the sweater!!

Always love statistics videos! Find them so interesting. Also, love the dinosaur print jumper ☺

I actually read a ton of mystery/thrillers last year. Mostly because I switched from the popular ones and just began reading cozy gay mysteries)

@Emmareads

6 ай бұрын

Any reccomendations? 😊

@jio5680

6 ай бұрын

@@Emmareads tons, any specifics interests? I'm currently reading The Adventures of Holloway Holmes and it's incredibly well written in my opinion.

@arobinreads

5 ай бұрын

also here for the recs. I love male/male the most and not too unpopular, I probably can't find it then on the platforms I use for reading

Hopefully you will have a great and healthy new year! Also, I loved your beauty channel! That's how I ended up here 😊

Yes please start doing your beauty videos again! Just finished Rhythm of War for my 1st book of 2024! And going to start Blood over Bright Haven next! So excited 😊

So happy about this video :D I´ve been waiting for it since the end of 2023 was approaching and got nervous you wouldn´t do it ^^. I personally read about 60 books which is quite a lot for me. And most of them were from the library, about 30-35 of them xD My most read genre was either fantasy or classics. I definately want to do a read-it-or-unhaul it as well, I have too many books I just kept because I didn´t come around reading them. Also personally I don´t care about TikTok at all. I´d rather watch here on YT, especially the longer ones :)

Crossed fingers for you!! I hope you feel better this year. I love your content and hope you can do the other things that make you happy this year 😊

Love this! Hope you get healthier! And babe stop apologizing or justifying your reading! It is what it is and whoever doesn't like it can leave

@arobinreads

5 ай бұрын

YES

Not me looking, the entire video, at the corner of your glasses, waiting to perfectly align with the arch of the brow 😂😂😂sorry for the offtopic, but i felt an overwhelming need to share this😂. love your videos. XO

I read 134 books last year which was way less than the year before (214 books) and am really happy with that. I felt like my year was more balanced with other hobbies. For this year my goal is to basically not have goals. Only things I'm working on are my personal challenges I want to keep up with which are Reading Authors (reading more from an author I have enjoyed previously), Reading Series and Rereading. But those are challenges that I just have on the go always and are fun for me. Just to have a bit of guidance with my reading.

Last year "I read" 56 books I would say almost half includes comics and audio books. But I really enjoyed my reading experience last year. Love how you are cleaning out your books you are inspiring me to the same!

Love to see the stats❤ and do I spot some dinosaurs?😍

Since you tend to enjoy books by female authors more, want to love mystery thrillers, are an avid fantasy reader again and care about LGBTQ+ representation, I HIGHLY recommend you check out the first book in the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling (plot-driven fantasy with likeable characters, a very slow burn male/male relationship and strong female characters who are not cliché and/or prostitutes) and maybe the backlist of POC author Tess Gerritsen (mostly medical mystery thriller series and standalones, sometimes with SciFi elements like in 'Gravity'). The Nightrunner series in particular deserves much more attention, I would love to see it on one of your future TBRs.

Favourite video of the year great stats again Mystery and Thriller is my favourite genre and last year was a very poor year but this year looks like we will get some better books

@arobinreads

5 ай бұрын

which ones would you recommend?

I love the stats video!! That’s why I use and love StoryGraph, i love seeing their graphs 😅 Read 32 books in 2023, 13k pages. 🎉

I decided to just read books this year. Not interested in the challenge. I dont know how many books i will read and hoping to surprise myself lol. I stopped goodreads and I'm trying out an app called Bookworm Reads. Just wanna try new apps and reading styles this year. Also, I'm rereading 1 book from my shelf every month. I wanna know if i still feel the same about books i read years ago. So far, my Jan 2024 reads are: 1. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2. A Strangeness in my mind by Orhan Pamuk 3. The Book of Night women by Marlon James Yes. I'm reading more authors of color this year 🎉❤😊

The fact you only had 1 one star is amazing

I love reading stats! I read 53 Books in 2023. My most read genre is Fantasy as well, but my second place goes to Romance - my task for 2023 was to read more Sci-Fi and i will definetly continue that one in 2024 - i loved I who have never known men, Project Hail Mary and Children of Time🕷 (Beccy Chambers and Octavia E. Butler are already on my physical tbr) Oh and i'm currently reading Blood over Bright Haven and i think i'm gonna love it, the first 70 pages are *chef's kiss*

Read: 204 books, 8 grapgic novels Average rating: 3.74 Longest: 677 pages Shortest: 54 pages This year's goals are to read 175 books and to read the 68 books on my TBR from 2018-2019.

If you want a thriller/mystery, I really enjoyed intensity by dean koontz! The main character is unhinged and I binge read it so quick.

I read 132 books last year! A lot were picture books and graphic novels, but I still read more than I think I ever have in my life (hello depression). My most read genre is fantasy, but it’s light fantasy, I usually have a hard time with high fantasy, which is why it’s a goal this year to read more of that and find new favorite authors/series. I don’t have a numerical goal this year. I actually want to read less books because hopefully that’ll mean I’m not as depressed and am out living my life and doing my other hobbies I always neglect. But I would like to read more classics, particularly by authors of color. I’d also like to go back and reread some of my favorites. As well as continue the series I’ve started and either DNF or keep reading a book from the series every 6 months (otherwise I totally forget the plot).

Could you do a video about mystery? Like patterns of what you hate and what you love and we could give you recommendations and you could then do another video titled with something along the lines of « can my subscribers renew my faith in the mystery genre ». If you want to read from your own shelves, you could give us a list of what you have and we would work with that.

Love the stats! For thriller/mystery… Have you read Tana French?

I would love more videos on your beauty channel. About 5-6 years ago I developed an allergy to like all eye makeup so I haven’t been able to wear makeup since. I’d like to do some trial and error to see if I can figure out what ingredients I’m actually allergic to but makeup is so expensive. Anyway. Your beauty channel was always one of my favs and I’d love to see your current recommendations and maybe any tips for sensitive skin.

I also love stats! 2023 was my best reading year, I read 150 books, or 54,044 pages. My longest book was Words of Radiance at 1389 pages and shortest Evergreen Elves at 78 pages (Danielle Garrett writes really fun witchy, cozy mysteries! And is self-published!). I read a mix of genres, most was fantasy though, the next romance (went way up), then contemporaries, mystery/thrillers… and then a smattering of other genres. I read mostly adult (130). I feel like I read less BIPOC books though, but I’ve been on a book buying ban all of 2023. I am trying to read at least a couple diverse books each month. ❤️

Also, I'd love to still love thriller/mystery novels but I feel like I'm just constantly reading the same story, just different author and book cover😒 The one thriller/mystery that worked for me this year was The Writing Retreat. That was one heck of a ride lol

@arobinreads

5 ай бұрын

yes same problem here. hard to find the good ones.

Last year: 40 books. This year, I already read 6 (4 of them were comics), and I think I will be trying to read around 50 books. Most read genere for me is fantasy, but I'd like to start reading some classics too.

I used to love your beauty channel, there’s no one who can do lip swatch videos like you, Emily 💄

Cozy book recommendation : The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn

Amazing 2024 Goals Emily I believe and have faith in you this year will read great books and love a lot 📚🩵🩵🎉🎉📚🩵🩵📚🎉🩵🩵📚📙📚📚🎉📙📙🎉🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🎉📙📖📖📙🩵📚🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵📚📚🎉🎉📚🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵📙📖📖📖📖🎉🎉

The other day I was talking about my favorite books of the year with my brother (who's also a big reader) and he noticed they were all by female authors lmao. I hadn't even noticed it myself. BTW half of these were recommended by my brother so he was just glad he knew my tastes well and now he'll recommend me mostly female authors. He reads more than me so it's a win for me hahah

I. NEED. THE. CATS.

Have you ever tried reading Franck Thilliez? It's a french authour that writes thrillers. I love him!

I read few books by males last year and they were mostly STEM related. I’ve also learned that I put down books by men for any isms quickly but female/queer authors it’s usually because the book didn’t jive and not because of poor writing.

Fantasy and Sci-fi are also my top genres, followed by horror. I found a couple of creators that either align with my preferences or that have a broader reading taste but explain well what they liked/disliked in a book. I also read less books than you (24 in 2023). Both of those factors make it easier for me to pick up books I know I will enjoy, my average star rating was 4.46 in 2023 (my highest so far). When I first got into reading (during the YA dystopian boom) I read primarily female authors. Between 2019-2020 it was closer to a 50/50 split. After that I read more from female authors again and a couple of non-binary authors, too.

146 books read in 2023, I don't do all the other stats but I very much enjoy when others do and share them. I'm old paper and pen tracker just in case I want to finish a series or more from a particular author. Most of those books were borrowed from the library, I have no idea where they would all go, and I don't even want to know how much that costs even in paper back.

My stats: -2023 goal: 75 books -Total: 279 books (trust me ik this is absurd and it was largely accidental) -Longest: 883 pages with adjusted libby fonts -Shortest: 30ish pages translated from audiobook -Average star rating: 3.93 -5 stars: 44 -Lowest rating: 1 book at 1.5 stars -2024 goal: 100 books -Reading challenges: BooksandaLala's buzzwordathon, cover color challenge, and unrated sports romances

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My 2023 stats: 77% female authors 19% authors of colour 65% nonfiction 58% audiobooks

9:37 Did you read Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot? I really enjoyed it. Not sure if you would but there's good queer rep and I think it was fun 😄

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I read 127 books last year! Historical fiction is my biggest genre, followed by business books, mystery, romance, and the classics. 48% of the books I read last year were non-fiction. 67% by women (only one non-binary). Only 18% by non-white authors, because I was reading my shelves. Almost half of the books I read by non-white authors ended up as 5-star reads, so I will be much more intentional about seeking them out in the future. This year though, my goal is much lower -- only 50 books. I'm in the home stretch of a TBR-zero challenge, and the average length of the books on my list is 564 pages. I'm a little worried about a slump because there are a lot of long classics on the list!

Hi Emily. What speed are you listening to audiobooks at?

How do you manage work life and book life to read a lot?

@BookswithEmilyFox

6 ай бұрын

I did a video about tips to read more: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2R8o9KoqLyXdaQ.html

Stats 168 books 53999 pages Avg length 321 pages Longest tie between my edition of Middlemarch and A Day of Fallen Night 880 pages 12 1☆s 21 2☆s 9 5☆s 114 by women (or nb) 54 by men 32% 2 dnfs 1 man 1 woman I don't have a stat but at least 100 had LGBTQIA+ rep This year's goals are the same as last year 140 books 45,000 pages 2/3 by women

How do you do your stats ? Please do a video about it

I read 107 books. Didn't keep track of other stats but I might try entering them in Goodreads to see. Where do you click to get it to tell you the stats?

@arobinreads

5 ай бұрын

Goodreads doesn't have stats. I would recommend trying The StoryGraph for stats

50% fantasy, 27% sci-fi. 70% female. Favorite sci-fi was Ancillary Justice. Only one mystery in top 15 which was Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone.

Last year I gave up on 1984 by George Orwell right around the part where the narrator launched into this diatribe about how much he disliked this one woman precisely because he knew he would never be able to sleep with her because she belonged to some temperance movement (but for sex) and that society. So he resented her precisely because she had made it publicly clear she was unavailable to anyone. 🙄 There's a tiny bit more context around it, and I know it's part of a larger point. But I also know I don't care.

Personally I can't stand tik tok and I hate that the vertical short form video plague invaded everything else. Can apps not just steal each other's good ideas and stay unique places?

What about Asian authors?

No to tic tok! So much garbage on there. Rots the brain. Here’s to a great 2024 & great health!