You might have noticed that I like spreadsheets and charts and graphs.

Yesterday’s year-end wrap-up of the top 10 YA hotties was fun, but today the word of the day is…quantitative!

Having a Kid Increased My Need for Escape

This year, I finished 102 books, up 45% from last year.

The breakdown by genre:

• YA Fiction: 74.6%
• Middle-Grade Fiction: 13.7%
• Nonfiction: 7.8%
• Adult Fiction: 3.9%

The breakdown by rating:

But Clearly, Reading Alone Wasn’t Enough

2009 was also the year I started this blog:

• I wrote 118 posts
• On average, each post received 5.6 comments
• The blog has 83 subscribers, according to Feedburner

Top 10 Posts

Taking into account number of comments, feed reader views, and web page views:

• Free Books to Celebrate Nerds Heart YA
• Which YA Series Were Worth Your Time?
• Can You Diagram Your Way to Writing Success?
• 7 Tips for Quitting a Book
• Take the TBR Personality Test
• How to Ban Books the RIGHT Way
• How Great Books Destroy Me
• Review: Along for the Ride
• Review: Bloom
• My Top 10 Kindred Spirits on Goodreads

Top Words

A graphical representation of the top words used on this blog, thanks to Wordle:



Did I really use “slut” and “slutty” that much? Geesh.

Top 10 Commentators

Before starting this blog, I didn’t know any adults who were as crazy about YA as I am. Now that I’ve found a whole slew of you, I don’t feel like such a weirdo anymore. Not only that, you’ve cheered me on when I needed it, commiserated over TBR lists, encouraged me to try new things. You rock.

• Alexa (41, and in her first year as a new mum, too!)
• Heather (29)
• Jessica (15)
• Jodie (15)
• Janssen (12)
• Cathe (11)
• Nicole (11)
• Patti (11)
• Rhiannon (11)
• Lisa (10)

By the way, I just installed a new commenting tool, DISQUS. Check it out at the bottom of this post, and let me know what you think. DISQUS integrates with social networking tools like Twitter so you can see the entire discussion in one place.

Your Turn: Whew. I honestly can’t think of anything else interesting to quantify, but let me know if you can, and I’ll consult the spreadsheets.