We are on fire this year. Each of the last three months has surpassed the corresponding totals from the previous three years. And vel veeter is reading and reviewing at a record pace (the previous record for fastest to reach 128 reviews was janniethestrange, achieved on July 6, 2015. janniethestrange would go on to review 230 books that year.)
On with the stats!
March stats:
446 reviews (last Mar. saw 312 reviews; this is the third highest month of all time, behind Jan. 2017 and Jan 2014)
Average rating: 3.61 stars (Feb: 3.57)
Most popular book: The Devourers by Indra Das (7 reviews, 2.29 average)
Most popular author: Indra Das (7 reviews; 2.29 avg)
Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 54 reviews! This is the first Cannonball month that I’ve found.)
Fiction: 355 reviews (Feb: 369)
Nonfiction: 86 reviews (Feb: 61)
Uncategorized: 8 reviews (Feb: 3)
Most popular genres: Fantasy (93 reviews), Romance (64), Mystery (59)
Male authors: 126 (Feb: 169)
Female authors: 309 (Feb: 259)
Oldest book read this month: The Book of Genesis (~500 BCE)
Books from 2017: 53 (Feb: 38)
Books from the last 10 years: 315 (Feb: 307)
Most common languages: English (91%), Japanese (2.2%)
Avg. Goodreads rating: 3.96 stars
Avg. Goodreads vote totals: 65,916
Avg. page count: 314
Average author age: 47.
Books read for the first time: 224
Book with the most CBR reviews: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (37 reviews)
Pages read: 136,000+
Reviewer averages (minimum of 10 reviews):
alwaysanswerb (13 reviews, 3.73 stars, 412 pages)
badkittyuno (40 reviews, 3.73 stars, 323 pages)
bonnie (20 reviews, 3.95 stars, 241 pages)
Caitlin_D (14 reviews, 3.86 stars, 309 stars)
Classic (20 reviews, 3.78 stars, 310 pages)
ingres77 (11 reviews, 3.86 stars, 315 pages)
Malin (12 reviews, 4.04 stars, 377 stars)
melanir (10 reviews, 3.30 stars, 350 pages)
Mikki Blu (13 reviews, 3.00 stars, 318 pages)
vel veeter (54 reviews, 3.30 stars, 264 pages)
yesknopemaybe (10 reviews, 3.80 stars, 294 pages)
Our monthly review breakdown (and leader):
Jan – 502 (vel veeter)
Feb – 431 (Classic)
Mar – 446 (vel veeter)
CBR Database:
13,398 reviews
7,883 individual books reviewed
Most reviews: Malin (879), badkittyuno (836), narfna (674)
I have Goodreads data on 83% of reviews, sex info on 96.2% of authors, and the nationality on 78.1% of authors.
I’m still, of course, in the process of going back through CBR3, 4, and 5, along with various blogs for CBR1 and 2, not to mention the Pajiba reviews section of the mothership (though, I’ve only done a handful). I’ve s started tracking the number of “career” reviews for our long term regulars. Malin (with us since CBR2, if I’m not mistaken) is the all-time leader. I’m working my way through the long term Cannonballers, so my all-time ranking isn’t close to comprehensive.
If anyone has suggestions for what else they want to see in the monthly stat round-up, just let me know. I’ve temporarily put the brakes on the Google Docs file for community edit.