hey~ look whose back with another blog post ay?? *applause* hope you all have been well and are ready for some juicy reading content! As promised, I am sharing my 2022 reading year powerpoint!
To clarify, I did not design these slides at all lolol I am not THAT creative. I found a template from the Slidesgo website (very helpful for students or lunatics like me).
a brief summary: the main goal of 2022 was to read all of the fantasy books I could because I was tired of reading ridiculous smutty books in 2021 and I wanted my big brain back. I think I finally broke the spell of only gravitating towards “easy to read” fiction by finishing some intense fantasy books that were looming over me! As the year went on, I found out that I LOVE picking up graphic novels ahhhhh (if you have any recommendations please throw them at me!!!!). I used to pick up graphic novels to boost my book count (i still do that lololol), but now I’m actively searching for long series that I’ll enjoy and continue to pick up!
I had 4 reading goals in 2022 hehe
- Goal 1: read 38 books I wanted a random number for my challenge so i can stop being anal (in 2021 I forced myself to read 4 books in one night so that I could get my book count to 30. apparently I couldn’t sleep if I ended the year on 26 lmaooo) and I took it one step further and read 39 hehehe (i know my 2021 self is crying)
- Goal 2: fantasy reading year!! this year I wanted to focus on all things fantasy because I had too much unfinished business. I could feel 2021 Sab glaring at me from all the way in London (hey psssstt 2021 Sab spoiler alert, I finally read tbg hehehe also naz…honey…i’m not even gonna say it)
- Goal 3: post thoughts on story on this slide I say that “I wanted to be active on booksta but next question” and now I disagree with that! I think I was pretty active considering all the grad school business going on in my life:0
- Goal 4: diverse baby:) this is a forever goal that I need to really work on. yes, yes I do 😐
These are my goodreads stats and I think I did pretty solid, considering I had so much going on in 2022. As you read (hopefully) in my previous blogpost, grad school consumed my entire being so I’m pretty surprised at how solid this reading year went! Also, I don’t want to sound like a hypocrite by bashing goodreads because I still use it for logging purposes, but bruhhhh it has NOTHING on storygraph’s features!! However, here are the little stats they have on their site and I thought it was still relevant:) also, I’m lowkey a nerd for stats *pushes up fake glasses* (never want to study them oof) and I like looking at them once in my life and moving one sjfsdfhsfks
To compare, here are several graphs and statistical info that storygraph provides for their users! There are many more graphs than these on the site and I think that’s such a tremendous improvement from goodreads and such a flex??? I totally recommend this site. A few side comments I wanted to make:
- it’s really hard to see/read but the first graph indicates the average mood for each month and it’s funny to me that the summer months are where I really said “let’s torture ourselves:)” and decided to binge read the entire tpw seriesT-T
- the fact that the fantasy bar is the farthest in the genre graph makes my heart smile.
- lastly, idk why but it’s sooooo funny to me to see the difference between how long it took me to read You Deserve Each Other (1 day) and Jade City (83 days) looooool the duality in me is real
I am giving y’all a flip through for the monthly slides because they are pretty self-explanatory! i wrote out the text in the caption if you can’t read on the slides!
books read: 1 rating: 5 stars thoughts: since, i only read one book i thought i should write my thoughts for this book alone. It was bittersweet because i finally finished my reread of this childhood fav after trying for about two years. This book is darker than the others so it made me sad and a tiny bit stressed rather than straight comfort which is usually the case with uncle rick’s books. I am ready to read the second series tho! (HOO) 
books read: 6 avg rating: 3.2 thoughts: i think i was trying to tackle my physical tbr this month and that was pretty successful but the books i read were so MID! I think my favorite thing was the power up comics that my friend gave me but i don’t think i’ll continue the series 
books read: 4 avg rating: 2.75 thoughts: what a terrible reading month! I read two really bad books that bored me to heck and even made me angry??? BUT i did read a really fun and creepy horror and i don’t usually pick up from that genre so i’m satisfied i guess 
books read: 2 avg rating: 4.5 thoughts: elite reading month because i spontaneously decided to reread tpw (and tdr but finished in May) because i wanted to have a fantasy reading year and i was dilly dallying with those mid books from previous months. I had to decompress with the lost hero and that was a great choice:) 
books read: 2 avg rating: 5 thoughts: the month i absolutely lost it because i finished both tdr and tbg series in under 30 days??? It was rough but nothing could stop me. And to think this was one of my busiest months because i was moving for grad school and getting ready for a whole new life/routine. I had truly lost my mind 
Grad school took over my entire life so i was not able to finish anything in this month:’) I did post some instagram posts to update everyone on my life but i had to set aside reading so i could adjust to a whole new environment. I think i did start Jade City in this month tho. I also think this was a shift in my reading experience in that I realized I might not be able to meet all my goals. I started to become super exhausted by the sudden change in my social and academic life. I did not have the mental capacity to read books or even post regularly (like i planned to) and i turned to scrolling on my phone. 
books read: 1 rating: no rating thoughts: i had to read a memoir about someone who lives a completely different life from mine for a class. my dumb ass didn’t start it until the night before the report was due:) but i still got an A tho so it’s fine. I do think this left a huge impact on the way i perceive mental health and it left me feeling very grateful for my psychological health. It is brimmed with sadness and tragedy and i definitely had to take a breather after reading it. 
books read: 8 avg rating: 5 thoughts: i was really in my graphic novel/comic era this month! I had a bit of a break before the fall semester so i borrowed a ridiculous amount of books from the champaign library and had the time of my life:) i also finally read the two ATLA comics my old roomie gave me and they were so funnnn. ALSO i finally finished jade city after trying to slowly read through out the summer. 
books read: 2 avg rating: 4 thoughts: i couldn’t find time to read at ALL so i remember browsing through audiobooks and trying many different ones until i stumbled upon this Ruta Sepetys novel that i hadn’t read yet and it was so MID. i’m disappointed because i truly though ruta would never let me down but it was so bland. HOWEVER, i decided to read you deserve each other (since sab loved it so much) on a rainy day and dude I binged that shit!! It was like crack, i loved it soooooo much 
books read: 1 rating: 5 thoughts: i def was not reading much at all and i think started jade war but was not making any progress. One day my roommate randomly let me borrow her copy of this and i decided to settle on the couch under a blanket to read it and mannnnn i wish i had a highlighter because the lines in this book were soooooo sweet and it made me CRY! I think this was the third book that made me cry in the year. Such a wholesome read that i’ll treasure forever~ 
books read: 1 rating: 5 thoughts: i was struggling to really get into jade war but once i did and the stakes started to heighten???oh man it was perfectly executed and the amount of times i gasped out loud???yeah yeah yeah this book was really good and i’m super excited to read the conclusion in 2023. 
books read: 11 avg rating: 4.4 thoughts: i read the love hypothesis after finals week and i giggled so much:) it was so fun and then??? I realized i had ten books left for my challenge and something took over me!! I went on a roll and read three books in a row (all super mid:/ and two of them were highly anticipated so…) i made a great recovery with AWESOME graphic novels!!!! (Amulet, monstress, and paper girls!!!!)
These slides are the awards section! If you’ve read any of these books, I would like to know your thoughts in the comments below and see if we differ in or share any opinions! I believe I’ve written reviews for most of these books on my goodreads and storygraph (my storygraph settings are set to community so I think we’d have to be friends/following for you to see my updates)
I believe this slide is also self-explanatory but I’l break down these takeaways because they aren’t necessarily comments on each reading goal rather just thoughts to summarize how I did in my 2022 reading year.
- Goal 1: read 38 books “somehow I always manage to finish my goal” (I read 39!) I truly don’t know what kind of energy takes over me in December. Like how tf did I read more than 10 books in less than a month (I started in the middle of December)
- Goal 4: reading diversely “I need to broaden my horizons” I’m not proud of myself in terms of diversity for this year:/
- “I need to choose reading over scrolling” I noticed I picked up my phone way too much this year and I’m glad I deleted tiktok (in december)
- Goal 3: post thoughts on ig story “I think I found my true posting style” I’ve abandoned the idea of trying to make my feed look consistent and matching colors/aesthetics for each photo. It was fun for the first few months of the year but I think my posts feel more like ~me~ nowadays.
Ok oooofff that is the end of this presentation! I hope you enjoyed looking at them and reading my additional thoughts. I’m not sure if this is the kind of content you’d like to see from me but if yes then I have a whole 2022 kdrama presentation too hehehe Enjoy this photo of yoongi running away and I’ll see you next time (or not O.O)
invincibleamy 
YES TO THE KDRAMA PRESENTATION!!
I love this sm!!!! I’m glad u were able to achieve ur goals even with everything that was happening with you. And you can always try again with the ones you weren’t satisfied with.
I hope this year ends up better with all my heart. You know. ❤
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