amara reads · year in review

2026

50 logs, 50 rated, averaging 3.1★. 20 films, 6 television, 15 books, 6 music, 3 games.

The year in five lines
  1. Amara reads logged 50 titles and rated 50, averaging 3.1★; 2 got five stars.
  2. The year in one title: The Remains of the Day (1989).
  3. Kindest to Blood Meridian, 1.0 above the crowd; hardest on The Matrix, 2.7 below.
  4. September was the busiest month, with 13 logs.
  5. Maker of the year: Kazuo Ishiguro, 3 titles.

Everything below is the long version.

Maker of the year
Kazuo Ishiguro

3 titles this year.

Blind spot of the year

comic

Nothing amara reads loved this year went far toward comic (humor).

By the numbers

  • 50
    rated
  • 42 h
    in films
  • 42
    days with a log
  • 5
    reviews
  • 132
    words written
  • 4
    rewatches
  • 2
    five stars
  • 3★
    most common rating
Month by month
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September was the busiest month, with 13 logs.

Ratings
1.5 stars: 32 stars: 52.5 stars: 93 stars: 123.5 stars: 94 stars: 64.5 stars: 45 stars: 2
mean 3.13 · 1.0 stars harsher than the crowd
Genres
  • Drama15 · 3.1★
  • Action7 · 2.0★
  • Thriller7 · 2.4★
  • Fiction5 · 4.0★
  • Adventure5 · 2.3★
  • Science Fiction5 · 2.1★
Decades
  • 1930s1
  • 1950s1
  • 1960s3
  • 1970s1
  • 1980s7
  • 1990s9
  • 2000s6
  • 2010s16
  • 2020s6

Fun facts

  • The oldest thing amara reads logged was The Hobbit from 1937; the newest, BEEF from 2023. That is 86 years of range.
  • The longest sit was The Wolf of Wall Street at 3 h 0 min.
  • The year opened with The Wire (4★) and closed with Die Hard (1.5★).
  • 42 hours in films: 1.8 full days of the year.
  • amara reads logged across 5 media this year. Omnivore territory.
  • 4 returns to things already loved. Comfort is a taste too.

Five stars · 2 titles they would hand anyone

  • Blood Meridian
  • The Remains of the Day