kelly_virginia's
2021
Reading Wrap-Up

kelly_virginia finished reading 36 books, across 12,046 pages!

First book
The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
Last book
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen

The Cold Start Problem

kelly_virginia engaged in introspective musings, traversed landscapes of the heart, and uncovered a wealth of knowledge.

The tales gently unfurled, inviting savoring and reflection.

Books and pages read per month in 2021

Line chart showing books and pages read each month in 2021. The data for books read per year are as follows: January - 5 books, February - 4 books, March - 2 books, April - 4 books, May - 1 book, June - 2 books, July - 2 books, August - 4 books, September - 1 book, October - 3 books, November - 4 books, December - 4 books. The data for pages read per year are as follows: January - 2790 pages, February - 1232 pages, March - 679 pages, April - 1009 pages, May - 310 pages, June - 471 pages, July - 760 pages, August - 1029 pages, September - 536 pages, October - 916 pages, November - 1014 pages, December - 1300 pages.
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The genres kelly_virginia spent the most time with in 2021

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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by John Leonard, Joan Didion

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

John Leonard, Joan Didion

Longest book
1122 pages
Shortest book
80 pages
HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands by David Cancel, Hiten Shah, Erik Devaney, Dave Gerhardt

HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands

David Cancel, Hiten Shah, Erik Devaney, Dave Gerhardt

The average length of the books kelly_virginia read was 348 pages and it took them around 13 days to finish each book!

2021's average rating was...

4.07

Looks like they know how to pick them!

2021 5reads

A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Finna: Poems by Nate Marshall

kelly_virginia's 2021 ratings

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Some months were better than others...

July

Highest average rating
5.0

Turns out October wasn't kelly_virginia's favorite month, with an average rating of 2.75.

January

Most pages read
2790 pages

Other StoryGraph users and kelly_virginia's 2021 reads

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

Most shelved
128,325 users
kelly_virginia's rating: 4.0
HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands by David Cancel, Hiten Shah, Erik Devaney, Dave Gerhardt

HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands

David Cancel, Hiten Shah, Erik Devaney, Dave Gerhardt

Least shelved
12 users
kelly_virginia's rating: 4.0
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

Highest rated
4.65
kelly_virginia's rating: 4.75

kelly_virginia explored the works of 38 new authors, including Helaine Olen, Robert Jones Jr., and David Cancel!

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

3 of the books kelly_virginia read were part of a series.

It was only new stories and ideas for kelly_virginia this year. No rereads!

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
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Compared to 2020...

Number of books

Decreased by 3%

Number of pages

Increased by 31%

kelly_virginia's personal 2021 reading experience

Charts generated from kelly_virginia's reviews

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Components of kelly_virginia's highest-rated reads

Moods: mysterious, sad, adventurous

Pace: slow

Book type: fiction

Genres: Autobiography, Horror, Poetry

Story style: character-driven

Characters: diverse, well-developed

2021 at a glance

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by John Leonard, Joan Didion
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands by David Cancel, Hiten Shah, Erik Devaney, Dave Gerhardt
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated by Harold Pollack, Helaine Olen
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong
You People by Nikita Lalwani
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Finna: Poems by Nate Marshall
Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs (Best Simple Recipes, Simple Cookbook Ideas, Cooking Techniques Book) by Julia Turshen
Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen

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