I started my own challenge way back in 2013 so it’d be a darn shame not to finish it.  I actually read and reviewed 191 books in 2013 but I counted the longer novels toward my challenge.  Anyone who doubts whether I actually reviewed these books can go verify them on the ‘My Reviews‘ page.  Right now I’m just going to talk about my statistics from the reading challenge (in which I read 104 books).

Total pages read: 43,985

Average pages per book: 422.9

Time spent reading (assuming an average of 100 pages/hour): 436.85 hours

Time spent reviewing (assuming 45 minutes/review): 78 hours

Um, wow?  I had no idea I spent that much time reading, but I guess I really do spend a lot of my time with my nose in a book.  More than most people, I’m thinking.  Even with blogging, I had no idea I spent that much time actually writing reviews!  But by the time I find cover pictures, blurbs and actually write the darn things an average of 45 minutes has gone by.  That means that since I reviewed 191 books this year I spent 143 hours and 15 minutes writing reviews.  I earned my blog name, that’s for sure.