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Here's the obligatory end-of-year/beginning-of-following-year roundup of blogging activities and the like. Anyone who'd just like the management summary can take away the headline fact that 2024 was pretty similar to 2023 in most respects, remarkably similar in fact. 

Just to illustrate that point: 2023 had 59 posts overall and 23 book reviews, while 2024 had 58 posts overall of which 22 were book reviews. There is a little bit of a subtlety here, though, in that I actually read (or, more accurately, finished) 23 books in 2024 but the last one was so near to the end of the year that I didn't get round to writing the review until 2025. The overall page count and therefore average book length were very slightly up on 2023; the outliers here remain 2011 and 2021 (overall page count) and 2020 (average book length). The sex split (no, stop it) was exactly the same as 2023: 17 male authors, 6 female. Anyway, here are the graphs you ordered:

A quick note on the most recent review, still very much in the realm of stats nerdery: if we insist on actual words in the title (and therefore treat G. as a special case) then Ice jointly holds the record for shortest title in this list, along with Pig and Utz. It also joins the list of one-word titles referred to here.