amara reads · year in review

2026

41 logs, 41 rated, mean 3.18. 16 films, 5 seriess, 15 books, 4 albums, 1 game.

The year in five lines

Amara reads logged 41 titles and rated 41, averaging 3.2★; 2 got five stars.
The year in one title: The Remains of the Day (1989).
Kindest to Blood Meridian, 1.0 above the crowd; hardest on The Matrix, 2.7 below.
June was the busiest month, with 10 logs.
Maker of the year: Kazuo Ishiguro, 3 titles.

Everything below is the long version.

Their year, in one title
The Remains of the Day 1989★★★★★
Our pick: the title that best explains everything else you loved.
The surprise
The Wire 2002★★★★
Runs against their usual leans, and amara reads loved it anyway.
Kindest call
Blood Meridian 1985★★★★★
1.0 stars above the crowd.
Harshest call
The Matrix 1999★½
2.7 stars below the crowd.

Maker of the year

3 titles this year.

Blind spot of the year

comic

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

By the numbers

Month by month

June was the busiest month, with 10 logs.

Ratings

mean 3.18 · 0.9 stars harsher than the crowd

Genres

Decades

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 Se7en (2.5★).
35 hours in films: 1.5 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.