https://www.taylormlunsford.com/tays-take daily 0.75 2025-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1556480208064-MBUHPLHH7XS9A85LVU8V/Tay%27s+Take.png Tay's Take Archive https://www.taylormlunsford.com/tays-take/2022/12/31/2022-reading-log-and-stats monthly 0.5 2025-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1672530507986-G5A5UP3W41OOQHQDFTN2/Screen+Shot+2022-12-31+at+5.40.39+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2022 Reading Log and Stats - Books per Month You can see here, better than anywhere else, which months were the roughest this year. It’s been an interesting way to see my mood swings and/or stress levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1672530506896-L6PHEXQA5D8XIE38FDYY/Screen+Shot+2022-12-31+at+5.42.23+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2022 Reading Log and Stats - Tropes Each book can have multiple tropes, but I wanted to start this one to track which tropes I gravitate toward. I was surprised by the spread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1672530507372-NRMSJS76C8T8CQOSVR44/Screen+Shot+2022-12-31+at+5.41.28+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2022 Reading Log and Stats - Rating I also wanted to be more deliberate in my rating this year. Did I really like the book? Or was it just satisfying? Satisfying is 3 or above. 4 or above is good. 5 is hit the sweet spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1672530507627-P1LO3ZB8IKNLAUMHWJJ3/Screen+Shot+2022-12-31+at+5.41.03+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2022 Reading Log and Stats - Genre This break down was fun too. Usually I’m very heavily concentrated in one area or another, depending on the market. This year, contemporary romance was clearly the winner. Looking at the upcoming year, I think it will be the same based on my yearly TBR list. You’ll also notice that I’ve started to track ones I just can’t finish. There were 3 more I marked to keep on my TBR list because I just wasn’t in the right headspace. They may end up on 2023’s DNF pile or finished list. We shall see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/41112516-d4dd-4eb8-8371-04e3cd6034ef/Screen+Shot+2022-12-31+at+6.03.25+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2022 Reading Log and Stats - This is the 2023 TBR List of New Releases I’ve started keeping a list of books that are coming out so I don’t have to constantly look them up. As soon as I see one I’m interested in or purchase a new book, I add it to the TBR List to help keep up with what I have/what I’m interested in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/38da3e36-f141-4798-a36c-284adb9b8be2/Screen+Shot+2022-12-31+at+5.37.50+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2022 Reading Log and Stats - The big numbers. 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I don’t have the data, but I know it would be closer to 10% last year. I still want to do better though. Luckily, there’s a full slate of new books by authors of color I discovered this year coming up in 2020. Can’t wait! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1577559929256-5YCW6K1Y20CR0MAGOMRX/Genre+Breakdown.png Tay's Take Archive - 2019 Reading Debrief - Genre Breakdown Overall, the genre breakdown of my reading this year is more varied than usual. I think a lot of that has to do with listening to audiobooks as I work and exploring the family audiobook archives as well as finding some great biographies and histories earlier in the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1577560142415-5QAR2OFHDI7U6DP0RCUG/Screen+Shot+2019-12-28+at+12.53.00+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2019 Reading Debrief Unsurprisingly, my authors of choice are overwhelmingly more female than male. There were some great books by male-presenting authors that I read, but women authors speak to me. I had to mark several books by men as “did not finish” because their perspective was skewed or less complete than others. I do, however, want to make a resolution to read more trans and nonbinary authors in the coming year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1577560635190-JVB9EJAA417SRRQHC1VT/Screen+Shot+2019-12-28+at+12.56.14+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2019 Reading Debrief This is another area where I made a lot of strides, but I also acknowledge I can do better. I’m going to try to find more books with LGBT protagonists and POC protagonists in 2020. Hold me to it and help me with it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1577560735400-0JTXZU2FZ1NKA1C4DAJ7/Screen+Shot+2019-12-28+at+12.55.17+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2019 Reading Debrief And last, but certainly not least, a breakdown of the number of books I read from each author over the last year. As a chronic re-reader, this list probably shows the most obvious growth. Aside from my Lisa Kleypas binge early in the year, I mostly explored new authors instead of constantly revisiting the same ones. Another note is that one of the second most-read authors is an Author of Color, Alyssa Cole (she’s brilliant, I love her, and give me all the new books from her). It was fun to meet new friends and try new things. I’ll definitely try to keep it up in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7e5329d5abb2474a74694/1577560546014-CEP1O01I7FVE33XWAW0F/Screen+Shot+2019-12-28+at+12.56.01+PM.png Tay's Take Archive - 2019 Reading Debrief This is the first year in a long time when I’ve had such an even split between audiobook and ebook. 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