A few numbers about books (read in 2015)

Yes, I know it’s been a long time since I wrote here; and yes, I have notes about various topics to post about in the future, with topics ranging from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to ... well, I can't find my other notes, so I'll just assume it's all Star Wars, all the way down.

But I had a few moments in a coffee shop the other day, after I wrote a quick book review on Goodreads, and I thought, “Wouldn’t it be fun to do some small-scale data-mining of my reading trends for 2015, vis-a-vis 2014?”

To which the only reasonable answer is, “Yes.”

Year / Category	2015	2014
Total	58	54
Comic Books	32	14
Audio Books	7	18
Library Books	13	7
My Books	7	15

First impressions:

• the totals are pretty close;
• the numbers for library books vs. my own books are swapped, which makes some sense: 
• in 2014, I was mostly in San Angelo, but already planning to head to Austin (prepping for code bootcamp started halfway through 2014), so I tried to read down my collection; 
• in 2015, I was in Austin, 
• (a) exploring the new library, 
• (b) getting new books that I wouldn't have owned before (business, self-help), and 
• (c) not carrying around all the books in my collection that I culled that past year;
• the largest negative shift is in audio books:
• there are so many podcasts to listen to in 2015, from new shows like Serial and old favorites like Planet Money;
• I also am not spending as much time walking the dog or washing dishes, perfect listening activities;
• the largest positive shift is towards comic books:
• and 19 of those were Dungeons & Dragons books that I bought in a Humble Bundle and made a point of reading because I had bought several such bundles (mostly roleplaying books in Bundles of Holding) and not read them;
• many of the others are first volumes that I read to see if I liked those series:
• I mostly did not.
• Except for Ms. Marvel, which really is amazing.

Here's to reading more in 2016!