Books

January is almost over and I’m posting my wrap-up for this challenge because I don’t think I’ll be adding anything to it in the next week. Carolyn is a fun host and I have enjoyed being a part of her community. Here is my reading for this year and look for my sign-up post for her 2016 adventures! [Read more…] about Gentle Spectrums 2015 wrap-up

Another reading year has come to an end and here’s the tally for the year.

Books read: 141
Pages read: 50,971
Of the books read:
Non-fiction: 11
New-to-me authors: 29
Continuing series books: 45
Re-reads: 37
Audio-books: 56
Various book club reads: 8
Challenges completed: 10 of 10
Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 71 of 94
Books set in states: 27 of 50
5 star ratings by me: 24 [Read more…] about 2015 Reading Stats

With the last-minute flurry of reading challenge finds at year-end, I carefully looked through and decided to join a few more. Because……why not? This makes my total challenges 14, plus the two from Riedel Fascination that end in Feb 2016. That’s the most I’ve ever joined, so here’s to a great reading year. My other 2016 sign-up posts are here, here, and here. [Read more…] about 2016 Reading Challenge post #4

Reading Road Trip Challenge 2015

Thanks to She’s Got Books on Her Mind for hosting. I did a challenge similar to this in 2012 and managed to get all the states with some work. Since then, I’ve kept track of my states each year in my regular reading and usually get more than half without trying. Because I read a lot of series that are set in the same locale and many books set in England, I don’t have a ton of diversity, so I set my goal for the Wayfarer: 21-30. I got 27 states without doing anything different in my reading and some states got many hits. [Read more…] about Reading Road Trip Challenge 2015 wrap-up

2015 Sequel & Prequel Challenge

I signed up for this challenge instead of one about finishing series because I had many ongoing series that I wanted to work on without necessarily finishing any of them. I signed up for 25-50 points: Amateur and totally blew that out of the water by getting 230 points which is over twice the threshold for Veteran. [Read more…] about 2015 Sequel & Prequel wrap-up