I think I may have mentioned it before, but making my end of the year post, and compiling all those stats, is one of my favourite things about book blogging. I’ve toyed with the idea of doing the same after each month, but I thought that maybe that would be a little too much. Then I started seeing other bloggers doing it, so I figured that I’m not alone in my love of stats.

In January I read twenty-three books, which is great, because it means I met my goal of an average of four books/week. Let’s see if I can keep it up for the rest of the year (I hope so!). January is usually my best reading month, in terms of the number of books, but this is the first year in a while that the majority of books read in January hasn’t been manga or graphic novels.

January books:

1. His Majesty’s Dragon; Naomi Novik, B
2. Flambards; KM Peyton, C
3. The Edge of the Cloud; KM Peyton, C
4. Flambards in Summer; KM Peyton, C
5. Flambards Divided; KM Peyton, D
6. An Assembly Such as This; Pamela Aidan, B
7. Some Danger Involved; Will Thomas, B
8. The Princess Diaries V: Give Me Five; Meg Cabot, F
9. Who Moved My Cheese?; Spencer Johnson (not reviewed)
10. Boy Meets Boy; David Levithan, C
11. Twilight; Stephenie Meyer, B
12. A Tale of a Tub; Jonathan Swift, C
13. Duktig pojke; Inger Edelfeldt, A
14. Whose Body?; Dorothy L Sayers, A
15. Som jag vill vara; Katarina von Bredow, C
16. Det fattas en tärning; Johanna Thydell, B
17. The Smiths: The Early Years; Paul Slattery (not rated)
18. The Giver; Lois Lowry, B
19. Cliffs Notes on Lowry’s The Giver; Suzanne Pavlos (not reviewed)
20. Gathering Blue; Lois Lowry, B
21. Messenger; Lois Lowry, D
22. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl; Shauna Reid, B
23. New Moon; Stephenie Meyer, B

I’ve made good progress on my challenge reads, though I haven’t started on the reading for all of them yet.

Challenge stats:

• A-Z Reading Challenge: 19/52
• Back to History: 2/12
• Decades ’08: 5/8 required (5/30 planned)
• First in a Series: 6/12
• Here Be Dragons: 1/3
• Russian Reading Challenge: 0/4
• Seafaring Challenge: 3/4 (ended)
• To Be Read Challenge: 0/12
• Young Adult Challenge: 9/12