It’s January and time to take a look back at my year in books.

IT’S NO SECRET THAT I 💜 BOOKS!

I love to read, which is what led me to becoming a writer (and a book coach). Not only do I love to experience the unfolding of a well-written story, but reading feeds my writing and coaching brain. We can learn so much as writers from reading other authors!

I tried to be more accurate about tracking the books I read this year. I think I did pretty well, overall. Though, I still have a tendency to read and track them in batches, as you can tell from the way the RSS feed hits my webpage.

There are a lot of great book tracking tools out there. I actually use BookBuddy app to keep track of my writing craft books. But for tracking the books I read each year, I still use Goodreads. I find it user friendly, and I like the way I can set up specific book shelves and pull detailed stats for the year. I also like the way you can see all the covers at once and grab a screen shot of that, which is what I used for the header of this post.

MY 2024 READING SUMMARY STATS

According to my tracking:

• I read  96 books.
• My average number of pages per book clocked in at 254. (That’s 6 fewer pages per book than last year.)
• My total number of pages read was 24,454. (About 1K more than last year.)

MY YEAR IN PICTURE BOOKS Because I coaching Picture Books (PB), I read a number of PBs each year. I study these books to help my clients understand the market, what’s being published, how authors and/or illustrators are creating meaningful picture books books for readers. This year, I remembered to track 18 of the PBs I read. I know I missed a few, so I really need to do a better job of tracking these next year.

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL…

As a freelance editor and book coach, my reading year includes quite a few pre-published manuscripts not represented here. This post only covers the published works that I consumed in 2024.   If you have a Goodreads account, you can find me there. Pop in to my Goodreads profile and see what I am reading.

If you’re interested in reading what I write, you can check out some of my books, like The Healer’s Legacy Trilogy, or my newest MG novel, Lostuns Found.

Or, if you like something a little darker, check out my collection of dark fantasy and light horror with a bit of humor. Blood From a Rose.

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