Happy New Year’s Eve, my friends!
As our holiday lockdown continues, we’re keeping very much to ourselves and waiting for our virtual game night with the normal NYE crew, I’m taking a little time to relax and put together the last post of 2020! Suffice to say that My December Adventures is less adventures and much more a recap of the year to the current highlights of the blog. Let’s go!
Holidays Marathon
The only thing to highlight for December is that the Holidays Marathon happened. It was fairly well planned but not as well executed! However, it still happened and its all updated on the page HERE.
2020 Recap
Its time for the recap of this year and where we’re at now. I want to skip through stats in general this year as its something that I’ve looked at fairly little although I am happy that in 2020 in terms of views did go up compared to the past year or two (at least from a quick glance).
Top 5 post published in 2020
- TV Binge: Eternal Love (三生三世十里桃花, 2017)
- Announcement: Ultimate 2010s Blogathon! Sign Up Now!
- TV Binge: Ashes of Love (香蜜沉沉烬如霜, 2018)
- TV Binge: Unrequited Love (橘生淮南·暗恋, 2019)
- Hiking: La Boucle du Mont des Trois-Lacs (Brompton, QC)
Honestly, I’m a little surprised that the TV Binges for the Chinese dramas are ranking top posts for what I released this year. Some posts that I put a lot of heart into so I’m glad that they did top the list. I did 3 of these thinking that it was just for my own liking and not thinking anyone would be too interested. The Top 10 all time is not anything from this year but some older posts.
Books: I had set a goal of 25 books for the Goodreads Challenge and ended up reading 26 books.
According to My Year in Books on Goodreads, I read 5,129 pages with an average rating of 4.1 stars (which is fairly high).
While the ratings might change if I were to go back to look, the books that have made an impression:
- Buried In My Past by Eva McKenzie
- Blackthorn by Terry Tyler
- Undead Ultra by Camille Picott
- Conscience by Jonathan Pongratz
- The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
Movies: According to Letterboxd, I watched 267 movies this year. I know that I did watch a whole bunch of short films that weren’t on the list and some festival films as well. So its definitely a little more than that number.
My top movies watched in 2020 (doesn’t have to be released in 2020):
- The Farewell
- One Cut of the Dead
- Sheep Without a Shepherd
- The Crossing
- The Oak Room
TV: With over 15 TV binges sitting in backlog from this year alone, I have some work ahead of me. However, here is the list of 8 TV series that I saw this year (not all aired in 2020):
I’ve been focusing on Chinese dramas lately and because of that, it will bring in some changes for 2021. However, as we wrap up 2020 , I just couldn’t choose 5 so that’s how we’re at 8. And that isn’t even mentioning some of the variety shows that I watch which is a huge amount as well.
I’m sure all of you have better things than to sit around reading my recap on the year (despite the pandemic situation) so a much shorter post than previous years. By the way, this post published marks the 300th post published this year. The only little stats that I want to share. Its definitely not the best years in terms of posts but in terms of views, I think its been very good. Plus, I can’t remember the number of followers last year but I’ve past the 3000 followers mark so its pretty awesome!
With that said, that’s it for the December Adventures and 2020 recap!
I have some small changes for 2021 that I’ll announce tomorrow!
Tranquil Dreams 