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December books
Jan. 1st, 2018 03:58 pm75. Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy - ***
76. Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey (reread) - ****
77. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - ***
78. The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo - *****
79. Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan - ***
80. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (reread) - *****
81. Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - ****
82. Bound by Blood and Sand by Becky Allen - ***
At the beginning of 2017, I declared it the Year of Finishing Series. I listed six series that I had read some of and wanted to finish--I also discovered another in the middle of the year that I'd forgotten I wanted to finish. Of those seven, I finished four. I'm reading the second to last of the Hannibal series and the Vorkosigan series at the moment, actually, but I didn't even make any progress on the Robin Hobb books. I should have set myself a way to check in on a more frequent basis--if I'd just worked to read a few books from the series I wanted to finish each month, I would have had no problem finishing series, but I didn't really bother.
I also did Game of Books in 2017. I'm pleased to say that I totally blew away my goal there! I set my monthly goal at 25, and there was only one month (March) when I didn't reach that. I had originally set the yearly goal at 250, then bumped it up to 300 after a couple of months. I actually managed over 400 points. I don't know if Game of Books specifically was motivating me (it helped that I went back to my early downloads a lot for ebooks), but it was fun.
I'm not making any reading goals for 2018 (I'm not really making goals at all). I fully expect having and caring for a baby to take up a huge amount of time and brainpower, and I don't want to feel bad about not reading enough books--or about counting short children's books toward a total.
76. Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey (reread) - ****
77. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - ***
78. The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo - *****
79. Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan - ***
80. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (reread) - *****
81. Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - ****
82. Bound by Blood and Sand by Becky Allen - ***
At the beginning of 2017, I declared it the Year of Finishing Series. I listed six series that I had read some of and wanted to finish--I also discovered another in the middle of the year that I'd forgotten I wanted to finish. Of those seven, I finished four. I'm reading the second to last of the Hannibal series and the Vorkosigan series at the moment, actually, but I didn't even make any progress on the Robin Hobb books. I should have set myself a way to check in on a more frequent basis--if I'd just worked to read a few books from the series I wanted to finish each month, I would have had no problem finishing series, but I didn't really bother.
I also did Game of Books in 2017. I'm pleased to say that I totally blew away my goal there! I set my monthly goal at 25, and there was only one month (March) when I didn't reach that. I had originally set the yearly goal at 250, then bumped it up to 300 after a couple of months. I actually managed over 400 points. I don't know if Game of Books specifically was motivating me (it helped that I went back to my early downloads a lot for ebooks), but it was fun.
I'm not making any reading goals for 2018 (I'm not really making goals at all). I fully expect having and caring for a baby to take up a huge amount of time and brainpower, and I don't want to feel bad about not reading enough books--or about counting short children's books toward a total.