2024 Reading Wrap Up

Nearly a week into the new year, and here is my wrap-up for 2024! Listen, it was a great year for my goals both here on Bookish Whispers and in my outside life. But what matters here is how I am on my 2024 goals. Well, the downside is I didn't read a single book on my 2024 TBR, no surprise there. On that same note, I don't think I really put a dent in my physical TBR this year. I read so much on my Kindle this year. More than  I originally bought the thing. For something I was sure I'd rarely pick up, this was definitely my Kindle era 2024.

I also didn't manage to clear my BINGO board this year. Seriously, we made this card stupid hard in one place. There is not a single one of us managed to hit that page count square. The one square I thought would be easy because I read a lot of books within three to four hundred pages, and I thought I would hit this one quite early. Wrong! So very wrong. I read 82 books this last year and not a single one of them hit that stupid square.

On that note, I did read 82 of the 70 books I wanted to!  I actually hit a lot earlier than I thought, and finished that goal by the end of October. This meant the last two months of the year were all bonus, and thank goodness for that because the end of December got busy and then I got sick, so not too much reading happened the last couple of weeks of the year.

I will say the page count goal is always the hardest for me to hit, but this year was a little more annoying than usual. Because according to my own maths (I keep a reading journal), Goodreads, and Storygraph, I got three different answers to this goal. According to the maths I recorded and Goodreads, I hit this goal. However, Storygraph says I was a couple hundred pages behind. Personally, I'm saying I hit because two of the three ways I track my reading said so. However, I think Storygraph is probably actually correct because it logs my audiobooks as actual hours listed, where my journal and Goodreads count the pages of the published.

So there's that. 

Still, I'm happy with how the year rounded up. It does mean this year that I would like all three ways I track my reading to match on page counts. That doesn't mean I won't use the average to finish out this year if I need to. After all, it's all good fun!

HAPPY READING!!