At the end of the year, the End of the Year Book Survey (by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner) pops up onto my feed, and it always gets me giddy to do it.

Last year, I took a different approach because all my reads were subpar, and I didn’t want to put them into book survey categories when I was feeling lackluster about it. However, this year? I am all aboard, ready to complete every category (or most of it) because 2015 was a great reading year for me!

Reading Stats | Best In Books | My Blogging/Bookish Life | Looking Ahead

2015 READING STATS

Number Of Books You Read: 109+
Number of Re-Reads: 14
Genre You Read The Most From: Contemporary

(Not completely accurate since I forgot to count a lot of books I’ve reread nor did I count all the individual comic issues I’ve read.)

BEST IN BOOKS

For a book that’s supposed to be about bisexuality, it does a terrible job portraying it.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE!

Go read this comic series. Do it!

East of West!

A great sci-fi Western comic series “set in dystopian United States whose fate rests with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Six of Crows, East of West,

Vicious, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic

Severin Unck (Radiance), Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows), Tara (The Wicked + The Divine)

The Wicked + The Divine #13

This isn’t a book, but a comic issue (that will be in the Volume 3 collection of WICDIV which will be out in February 2016). It was quite an eye-opening read because what Tara faces is what ladies on the Internet are constantly dealing with, and it’s just absolutely heartbreaking.

Bitch Planet

Women, who are deemed non-compliant (not following the rules of the terrible patriarchal world), are sent to a place called Bitch Planet. Like WICDIV #13, this comic speaks so much truth about the treatment of women. It doesn’t sugar-coat anything. You have these women being punished and made for sport by men for not being compliant with their bullshit rules.

These two comics does a beautiful job at making you think about what women face everyday.

My jaw dropped to the floor with Made You Up. I’m still at a lost about what happened because I was not expecting that at all.

KAZ + INEJ! (from Six of Crows)

LUCAS CORTEZ + PAIGE WINTERBOURNE (from Dime Store Magic/Industrial Magic)

Mikey, Mel and Meredith (in The Rest of Us Just Live Here)

These siblings made me emotional because you can tell how much they love each other.

Fates & Furies

I read this because a Penguin rep and Elena rec-ed it, and oh boy, what a fascinating book Fates & Furies. A very interesting look at a marriage that seems perfect on the outside, but behind closed doors is a mess. It did give me a bit of Gone Girl vibes (minus the murder or the thriller aspect).

Lucas Cortez (from Dime Store Magic/Industrial Magic)

Made You Up & This Monstrous Thing!

Six of Crows, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Both books were just so fun to read because of the way the characters interacted with each other and because of the awesome writing by Leigh Bardugo and Patrick Ness. Wonderful wordsmiths!

Goodbye Stranger

THE FRIENDSHIPS! I was near tears at seeing how much these girls cherish their friendships. That’s how it’s supposed to be! None of the pettiness! Just the sweetness of friendships! So much love!

The Wicked + The Divine: Vol. 2 – Fandemonium

This comic series always tears my soul apart. It’s just soooo good. Volume 2 is no different. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are masters at what they do. They have a real talent for it.

Hello, I Love You was a frustrating and anger-inducing read because of the main character and her close-minded judgmental white savior complex. Bitch Planet was my favorite comic read of 2015, but it sure did get me angry (in a good way) at the damn patriarchy. JUSTICE FOR THESE WOMEN. #noncompliant

(I also should say Everything Everything and Tiny Pretty Things also made me angry because they were terrible.)

YOUR BLOGGING/BOOKISH LIFE 

Aentee is one of favorite people I’ve found this year. She is absolutely fabulous. She was a great person to have for fangirling over Kaz/Inej in Six of Crows, and she’s a Catherynne M. Valente fan! Yeeeee.

Radiance

Black Widow: Forever Red

Cut Both Ways

I finally was able to put my love for Radiance into intelligible words, and oh boy, what an essay I wrote. It’s essentially a love essay of me singing its praises! ;) I disliked Black Widow: Forever Red and Cut Both Ways, but the reviews I wrote for them are some of my best works.

Why You Need To Read The Wicked + The Divine

I Love You So Much That I Can’t Write A Review

Oh boy, the list is endless:

• Love-A-Thon
• ALA
• ARC August
• Leigh Bardugo signing
• Patrick Ness signing

• I met KELLLLLLYYYYYYYY (who was my first official blogging friends).
• Met my favorite author of all time, Patrick Ness! 
• Successfully traded for an arc of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore with Nancy!
• Comic awesomeness: Got a sneak peak of Black Canary #2 from the writer, Brenden Fletcher, & got an advance reading copy of Monstress
• Getting recognized by publishers

Being inspired to come up with creative new posts. 

I only participated in the Goodreads challenge, and I read over 100 books! Yeeeee. For my 2015 goals, I did a terrible job completing it. It’s very embarrassing to look at it, and see how I haven’t really achieved any of it.

LOOKING AHEAD

All the Middle Grade books!

One of my goals for 2016 is to read a lot more Middle Grade books. I’ve read many synopses that just sounds so darn cute and awesome. (Plus, no romance, which is always a plus because the one thing I dislike about YA is that it’s usually so romance focused.)

Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

I love Claire Legrand’s books. <3 Her Middle Grades are always so on point.

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

Start reading the unread books on my bookshelves.

Did you see any books in my survey that is on yours too?