#addi reads asoiaf

[alicenyras]

back because im reading adwd and bran iii made me so genuinely emotional it’s actually fucked me up and i needed to speak about it into the void. teared up when ned appeared. almost cried at lyanna. then did cry at the end. why did it make me do that 😭😭

[juuls]

Juulna's 2022 reading stats - fics and books too!

Wow, so many statistics and so little time! Let's see... what are the most pertinent and interesting ones...? Thanks to the @fanfic-reading-challenge I got to read some pretty interesting things this year! The new one starts soon. :D

How many books did I read?

177, wow! My goal had been to read 100 (you can set a goal for yourself and keep track on Goodreads, which is awesome) so I definitely surpassed that. I used HowLongToRead to get an approximation of how many words I read in books, and it totalled 16,700,982 words. Nearly 17 million! It's actually more than my total in fics, hah.

Do I have any favourite books I'd recommend?

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan

The Women's War by Jenna Glass

Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire (genocide trigger)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes

Heck yeah I do! These books were amazing and had me reading any sequels I could, ASAP. For those with a limited budget, check out this free online library, Library Genesis, or your own library's resources!

Now let's talk about fanfiction...

In total, I read 15,832,562 words, 4,017 chapters, and 589 fics. That works out to about 26,880 words per fic on average. But what's the monthly breakdown of all that? Some of those words, chapters, and fics are ones I did not finish (yet), but I did count as finished those WiPs which I'd caught up with.

The least I read in a month was 470,293 words in April, with 22 fics read. Not even sure what was going on with me back then. The most I read in a month is actually December! I attribute that to me finishing off or at least reading as much as I can of some long fics on the back burner. Also, there were a lot of WiPs which had updates in December, and fics I'd been reading a little at a time month after month, which I finally completed. So yeah, I read 2,030,497 words in December, fairly closely followed by October. Pretty sure I was just drowning out the lack of light these last few months. :P 7/12 months I read more than a million words, and 4/12 months were over 1.5 million, plus those labelled incomplete for both those stats.

I read 137 different romantic pairings which were the main relationship(s) of the fic. I also read 49 distinct fandoms. I definitely dug into my past and some of my favourites from when I was a kid! It was quite neat, actually!

But okay, so this is definitely getting a little dry. Here are some of my favourite fics from this year (and I may make a few rec lists from my much larger 'favourite list')!

How about some fic recs?

Red are the BEST of the best.

Knock Three Times by Jellyneau, TenRose (Doctor Who)

I sung of chaos by Sadhippie, Sansa & Cersei frenemies (GoT)

This Time, We'll Do Better by LadyTP, SanSan and others (ASoIaF)

Conqueror by mardia, Darklina (Shadow & Bone)

The Empress, Robed in Sun by Anonymous, Darklina (Shadow & Bone)

And all that's best of dark and bright by kaaterinapetrova, Iron Family (MCU)

System ID: J.A.R.V.I.S. by valdomarx, Stony (MCU)

Kudos by StonyFan1918 by RiaRose, Stony (MCU)

she swallowed the shipwreck between her ribs by justanotherpipedream (Marvel x The Witcher)

It's the Little Things that Matter by TunaFishChris, Wanda & Tony (MCU)

create / detonate by pprfaith, WinterIron (MCU)

ink and paper prayers by kitsunerei88, Chedric (Potterverse)

Three Wizards and a Baby by Lizzie_carlile, Dramione (Potterverse)

Bring Him to His Knees by Musyc, Dramione (Potterverse)

Phoenix Rising by Peanutbuttertoast, Dramione (Potterverse)

Chronos Historia by In_Dreams, Dramione, Bloody Baron/Helena Ravenclaw (Potterverse - Founders era)

Love In A Time Of The Zombie Apocalypse by rizzlewrites, Dramione (Potterverse)

Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Falling in Love by isthisselfcare, Dramione (Potterverse)

A Marauder's Plan by CatsAreCool (Rachel500), Harmony and Sirius & Harry (Potterverse)

What Would Matilda Do? by hansolo, Harry & Hermione (Potterverse)

Face On the Milk Carton by dyslexic_penquin, Theomione (Potterverse)

The Shattered Marque by Kryptaria, Johnlock (BBC Sherlock x Kushiel's Legacy)

The Intergalactic Scuttlebutt Club by Moonbeam (luvsbitca), Spirk (Star Trek: AOS)

Living in the Now by Alethia, Michael Burnham/Christopher Pike (Star Trek: Discovery x Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)

Gotta Love The Little Things by AquaWolfGirl, DarkJediStormPilot (Star Wars)

It Takes a Village by rightforlife, Reylo (Star Wars)

Sky Marked Souls by AnonymousMink, Reylo (Star Wars)

This Bolder Life by darkrose, Telesilla, Teyla/John/McKay/Ronon (Stargate: Atlantis)

Pegasus Non-Verbal by igrab, McShep (Stargate: Atlantis)

Written by the Victors by Sperenza, McShep (Stargate: Atlantis)

we are the raven and the ghost by Itar94, McShep (Stargate: Atlantis x His Dark Materials)

How Rue Became the Mockingjay by aimmyarrowshigh, Everlark (The Hunger Games)

Value by didoandis, Geraskier (The Witcher)

We Drift Inside Each Other (All We Need is One Another) by newtypeshadow, Stuckony (MCU x Pacific Rim)

An Unexpected Malfoy by RiverWriter, Dramione (Potterverse)

The Black Family's PR Nightmare by elphabalives17, The Black Family (Potterverse)

Heart on my Sleeve, Joy on my Cheek by freyjawriter24, Geraskier (The Witcher)

Sorry for the lack of Tumblr handle tags, I can only link 50 things a post now!

[alicenyras]

so jon connington is in love with rhaegar right?

[alicenyras]

the problem w adwd is that you’ll read some of the greatest chapters in any book ever published and then you’ll have to get through a tyrion or dany or jon chapter to keep going :/

[alicenyras]

the theon chapters r SO GOOD

[alicenyras]

the parallels between sansa & arya are going to drive me fucking insane !!!!! they’re both having the exact same journey w identity rn where they can’t be themselves if they want to survive ... arya is cat and sansa is alayne they both have to pretend the old them never existed ... but arya defies it bc she’s arya and sansa tries so hard to make it work bc she’s sansa and they’re so different and yet so similar and i adore them ... literally two sides of the same fucking coin

[alicenyras]

realizing i’ve already read all the sansaery content we have makes me wanna reread storm but then i remember robb died in storm which makes me wanna reread clash for robb content but then i remember there isn’t any sansaery content in clash which makes me wanna reread storm but then i

[alicenyras]

tried to look up an entirely different character named pate and i found this. i fucking hate this series

[alicenyras]

sansa:

me: i would die for u

[alicenyras]

i think tywin rly respected robb. he doesn’t seem happy at the news of robb’s death. like he’s happy the plan worked but he’s not genuinely happy robb’s dead. he did what he had to do to end the war but i truly think he had a lot of respect for robb after the whispering wood 😌

[alicenyras]

i’m at the final catelyn chapter and i think i’m just gonna stop reading the book now 🙃

[alicenyras]

back reading dance with dragons here we goooo

[alicenyras]

WOAHHH show tyrion handled the whole marriage situation 1000% better jfc

[alicenyras]

between sansa x margaery, jaime x brienne and jon x ygritte i think storm might classify as a romance novel. it might have even invented romance. who’s to say? (i am. i am to say. and i say storm invented romance)

[alicenyras]

is it weird that i genuinely love tywin as a characer?? i feel like not a lot of people would agree but he’s so fascinating...like yeah he’s cold and cruel and calculating and just awful all around but at the same time he puts people in their place who very much need that and he’s SO intelligent and i actually agree w like 80% of what he says...he’s just crazy complex and i love whenever he shows up like more tywin pls

[alicenyras]

"now there's a wonder." I SHIPPED IT IN THE SHOW BUT THE SHOW DOES NOT DO THIS RELATIONSHIP JUSTICE, I SEE NOW. JAIME AND BRIENNE ARE SO IN LOVE IM GONE LOL