Books

Another reading year has come to an end and here’s the tally for the year. For the first time I didn’t complete a reading challenge, but I also did a huge jump from 10 to 17 this year so maybe that was too ambitious.

Books read: 162
Pages read: 50,718
Of the books read:
Non-fiction: 14
New-to-me authors: 33
Continuing series books: 49
Re-reads: 30
Audio-books: 68
Various book club reads: 12
Challenges completed: 16 of 17
Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 73 of 95
5 star ratings by me: 21 [Read more…] about 2016 Reading Stats

Royal Challenge 2016 

She’s Got Books on her Mind hosted this challenge to read books with a royal theme: books that center around anyone with a royal title, knights, castles, kingdoms, or heroic quests. I signed up for Earl or Countess: 7-9 books and surpassed the King or Queen level with 25 books. I’m either an overachiever or I read a lot of books with royals and quests.

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Newbery Reading Challenge 2016

This is the third year of this challenge and I have participated since the beginning. It helps me stay focused on my perpetual challenge of reading all the winners.  Julie of Smiling Shelves is once again the host and I chose the L’Engle level: 15-29 points which I just made with 16 points.

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2016 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

I joined this YA challenge hosted by Whole Latte Books.The rules were simple: read YA books which I love.  12 of the 39 books I read were re-reads, mostly via audio; 3 were for a book club. My favorites of the new reads were Night Study, The Raven King, The Wrath & the Dawn, The Rose & the Dagger, Salt to the Sea, Six of Crows, and Crooked Kingdom.

So here’s my long list for the year. [Read more…] about 2016 YA Reading Challenge wrap-up