So, another 100 reviews up at the complete review, as we've now hit 3601, and here some statistics about the last hundred (well, numbers 3501 through 3600):
- The 100 reviews were posted over 179 days (previous hundred: 172), total 91,164 words (previous hundred: 86,979), and the reviewed books had a total of 24,868 pages.
- Thirty-one reviews were over 1000 words (the longest: 2738), four were under 500 words (previous hundred: 22 > 1000 words, 12 < 500).
- Eight reviewed books were over 500 pages long, and three of those were over 800, but there were no thousand-pagers (longest reviewed book: 884pp).
- Reviewed books were originally written in 22 languages (including English), including two new languages (Galician, Malay). Reading was way too Francophone -- more than a third of reviewed titles were originally written in French (35) -- and 22 were originally written in English. Amazingly and oddly, no German-written books were reviewed. (This is a bit surprising, since I did read half a dozen or so German novels over this period -- but, for a variety of reasons, didn't review any of them.) See also the full round-up of How international are we ? and, especially, the full breakdown of all the languages the books under review were originally written in.
- Reviewed books were by authors from 37 countries, led by France (25), the US (8), and Indonesia and the UK (5 each).
- Hey ! I wasn't quite as sexist as usual -- 22 of the titles were authored by women, above the historic average that has now been nudged up to ... (a still very embarrassing) 15.47 %.
- Fiction -- properly and appropriately -- dominated (fiction is what counts !): 91 of the reviewed titles were fiction: 84 novels and 7 story collections (though I've really tired of story-collections and would be just fine not seeing another one for quite a while).
Only one play and one poetry-collection were reviewed.
- No reviewed title was graded 'A', but there were 9 "A-" -- and one "C".
- The reviewed titles were more contemporary-heavy than I had thought (cf.): 15 titles each that were first published in 2014 and 2015. There were also 9 titles from the 1980s, and 6 from 1900-1909. Only two from before 1900, however.
I don't really take (m)any lessons from these statistical overviews -- beyond the obvious/usual (read more ! read more fiction ! read more fiction written in more different languages !). Obviously, I think I've been overdoing it on the French stuff (35 out of the past 100 ?!??) and I'd like to be reading more pre-twentieth century works (and a few more plays and poetry collections ...), but I imagine that all won't really influence the next hundred title reviewed (indeed, the first, review 3601, was yet agin, a French novel ...)
- The 100 reviews were posted over 179 days (previous hundred: 172), total 91,164 words (previous hundred: 86,979), and the reviewed books had a total of 24,868 pages.
- Thirty-one reviews were over 1000 words (the longest: 2738), four were under 500 words (previous hundred: 22 > 1000 words, 12 < 500).
- Eight reviewed books were over 500 pages long, and three of those were over 800, but there were no thousand-pagers (longest reviewed book: 884pp).
- Reviewed books were originally written in 22 languages (including English), including two new languages (Galician, Malay). Reading was way too Francophone -- more than a third of reviewed titles were originally written in French (35) -- and 22 were originally written in English. Amazingly and oddly, no German-written books were reviewed. (This is a bit surprising, since I did read half a dozen or so German novels over this period -- but, for a variety of reasons, didn't review any of them.) See also the full round-up of How international are we ? and, especially, the full breakdown of all the languages the books under review were originally written in.
- Reviewed books were by authors from 37 countries, led by France (25), the US (8), and Indonesia and the UK (5 each).
- Hey ! I wasn't quite as sexist as usual -- 22 of the titles were authored by women, above the historic average that has now been nudged up to ... (a still very embarrassing) 15.47 %.
- Fiction -- properly and appropriately -- dominated (fiction is what counts !): 91 of the reviewed titles were fiction: 84 novels and 7 story collections (though I've really tired of story-collections and would be just fine not seeing another one for quite a while).
Only one play and one poetry-collection were reviewed.
- No reviewed title was graded 'A', but there were 9 "A-" -- and one "C".
- The reviewed titles were more contemporary-heavy than I had thought (cf.): 15 titles each that were first published in 2014 and 2015. There were also 9 titles from the 1980s, and 6 from 1900-1909. Only two from before 1900, however.
I don't really take (m)any lessons from these statistical overviews -- beyond the obvious/usual (read more ! read more fiction ! read more fiction written in more different languages !). Obviously, I think I've been overdoing it on the French stuff (35 out of the past 100 ?!??) and I'd like to be reading more pre-twentieth century works (and a few more plays and poetry collections ...), but I imagine that all won't really influence the next hundred title reviewed (indeed, the first, review 3601, was yet agin, a French novel ...)