Hello,

Welcome to another stat filled quarterly check-in. To no one’s surprise I am still slacking on the blogging front. I am hopeful — like always — that this will change as I get back into a routine now I’ve got through the busy period at work and I’m on break from uni at the moment.

I cannot believe we are already a quarter into the year! To celebrate I am bringing the pie charts back! Yay for charts!

These stats look at all the books I’ve read in January, February and March. While I read them in 2023 not all the books have been released in 2023.

Reading Challenges

Goodreads

Goal: 100

Read: 37

Around the World in 52 Books:

Goal: 52

Read: 32

I am happy with how I am progressing with my Around the World in 52 book challenge. I have no idea if I will finish it but I don’t mind If I don’t complete all the challenges. I am a mood reader through and through so I normally try and fit the books I’ve already read to the prompts.

I am doing alright with my Finishing Series challenge. So far I’ve read 7 of the 21 books which has completed 5 series. I am dedicating July to reading only series so fingers crossed I can

To see the listed a prompts and which one’s I’ve crossed off head to my Reading Challenges page.

I have had a number of 5 star reads this quarter and overall I’ve enjoyed all the books I read. I gave 9 books a 5 stars rating, 9 received 4.5 stars rating, 10 have received 4 stars, 3 have received 3.5 stars and 6 received 3 stars.

The lowest rating I gave this quarter was 3 starts which, personally, I don’t think is a bad rating at all!

My average rating is 4.2 stars.

Here are my 5 star reads from January, Febuary and March!

There isn’t much of a change with my favourite genres in 2023. Romance and Paranormal are my top genres and honestly I don’t think that is going to change anytime soon. I am 100% addicted and it’s really all I want to read.

I’ve introduced a new genre category this year, Mythology. This category will be used for all myth retelling and collections of myth.

To break the genres down, I have read 14 romance books, 13 paranormal, 6 fantasy, 2 mythology, 1 historical fiction and 1 graphic novel.

No surprise here that I am mainly reading books targeted to an adult audience. It makes sense when you look at what the above genre breakdown.

I did get to some middle grade book as I finished reading the Howl’s Moving Castle series. I would like to see some YA titles next quarter as I have a ton of YA fantasy on my shelves that I would love to get to.

I read 2 Middle Grade and 35 Adult titles.

I have been loving audiobooks. They are fast becoming a staple in my life. They have made tackling some of the more intimidating books on my TBR so much easier. I am still favouring digital books are reigning supreme this quarter. Not a big surprise since I’ve been reading a lot of KU books and trying to read through book of authors who will be attending RARE to see if I wanted to place a pre-order.

Fingers crossed I can make a bigger dent on reading physical books next quarter. This would help me make some progress on my goal to have 80% of the books I read in 2023 are to be books I own.

I read a total of 13 physical books (12 paperbacks and 1 hardbacks) and 19 digital books (18 eBooks, 5 audiobooks and 1 eARCs).

I am beyond thrilled with this! Look at all the green! I don’t think I’ve every read this many sequels compared to first series. I would love to see the trend continue but I have my doubts it will.

I read 33 series books (11 first books and 22 sequels) compared to 4 standalones.

That’s all for me. Comment down below and let me know how you’re reading challenges are going so far and what books have been your favourite so far

Until next time, happy reading!

Dearna