2017 What I'm Reading Wednesday #15 - Yearly Wrap-up

Well, the end of the year if upon us, and I have met my reading goal of 32 books!!  

Yippee!

I am very excited that I reached my goal, so excited in fact that I am increasing my goal to 50 books this year.  I will be using the Book Challenge by Erin and the Popsugar Reading Challenge prompts as inspiration and trying to read as many books as possible from my personal bookshelves.  I am always looking for new books to read, so please comment below with recommendations.  I am interested to see what this new year brings.

Here are all the books I read in 2017.
2017 Goal: 32 books

Books Read = 32/32

Books from TBR list: 6

Series completed: 0

*Erin's Book Challenge #6:  8/10  0/Bonus Round (Final Score)
**Erin's Book Challenge #7: 5/10  0/Bonus Round (Final Score)
BC = Book Club book

January

1.  Midair by Kodi Scheer

*2.  And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (TBR)

February

*1.  Christine by Stephen King

2.  The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens (yup, I started a new series)

March

1.  The Fire Chronicle by John Stephens (second book in the series)

*2.  Wonder by RJ Palacio (TBR)

*3.  Matched  by Ally Condie

*4.  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (TBR)

April

*1.  The Ancient Ones by Kirk Mitchell

*2.  The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

*3. The Breaking Light by Heather Hansen

May
*1.  11/22/63 by Stephen King (TBR)

2.  Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
3.  The Vines by Christopher Rice

June
0 books read :(

July
**1.  Yo by Ricky Martin
**2.  Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

August
0 books read :(

September
1.  The Passage by Justin Cronin (TBR) (BC)
**2.  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (TBR)

October
1.  Dualed by Elsie Chapman (BC)
**2.  Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
3.  Breathe by Sarah Crossan (BC)
**4.  Little Town Lies by Anne Strieber

November
1.  Portrait Revolution by Julia L. Kay
2.  Interference by Amélie Antoine
3.  Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
4.  The Night Bird by Brian Freeman
5.  Skinny Liver by Kristin Kirkpatrick

December
1.  Art and Soul Reloaded by Pam Grout
2.  Extracted by RR Haywood
3.  The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
4.  Ocean of Storms by Christopher Man and Jeremy K Brown
5.  Rewire by Richard O'Connor

What are you reading this week?  Have you made reading goals for 2018?

2017 What I'm Reading Wednesday #12 (November 15, 2017)

today by loca4crafts

I am well on the way to reaching my reading goal for the year and I still have a month and a half to go!  Anyway, here is my progress so far... 

2017 Goal: 32 books

Books Read = 25/32

Books from TBR list: 6

Series completed: 0

*Erin's Book Challenge #6:  8/10  0/Bonus Round (Final Score)
**Erin's Book Challenge #7: 5/10  0/Bonus Round (Final Score)
BC = Book Club book

January

1.  Midair by Kodi Scheer

*2.  And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (TBR)

February

*1.  Christine by Stephen King

2.  The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens (yup, I started a new series)

March

1.  The Fire Chronicle by John Stephens (second book in the series)

*2.  Wonder by RJ Palacio (TBR)

*3.  Matched  by Ally Condie

*4.  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (TBR)

April

*1.  The Ancient Ones by Kirk Mitchell

*2.  The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

*3. The Breaking Light by Heather Hansen

May
*1.  11/22/63 by Stephen King (TBR)

2.  Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
3.  The Vines by Christopher Rice

June
0 books read :(

July
**1.  Yo by Ricky Martin
**2.  Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

August
0 books read :(

September
1.  The Passage by Justin Cronin (TBR) (BC)
**2.  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (TBR)

October
1.  Dualed by Elsie Chapman (BC)
**2.  Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
3.  Breathe by Sarah Crossan (BC)
**4.  Little Town Lies by Anne Strieber

November
1.  Portrait Revolution by Julia L. Kay
2.  Interference by Amélie Antoine
3.  Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Currently Reading:
Skinny Liver by Kristin Kirkpatrick
The Night Bird by Brian Freeman

What are you reading this week?  How are your reading goals going?

The Year in Review 2015

Well, another year has ended.  Time to look back at the goals I made and how close I came to actually attaining them.  Overall I think I was successful this year.  I attained two and a half of my four goals.  That's over 50%.  Let's take a closer look....

These were my reading and writing goals for 2015:
   1.  Write 250 words each day(1750 total words per week)
I did not attain this goal.  I continue to struggle with daily writing practice.  I can maintain a daily practice for a few days and then it just dies away.  I started the year out with writing prompts and discovered that does not work for me :)

I have joined online communities to help me stay on track, and they work for a while but eventually the motivation seems to just die away.  I have lots of excuses, but they are really just excuses.  When I think of how much time I sit idly in a day, I know that I could easily write 250 words each day.  I am easily distracted and I have a difficult time following through.  I hope to work on both of these problems in the new year.

   2. Complete the first draft of my novels (ZF and DOVH) and begin the next.
Wow!  I actually attained half of this goal.  I completed the first draft of ZF.  It is not ready for anyone to read or even glance at it yet, but it is complete.  I made some good progress on DOVH and I started the next one even though I probably should not start something new without first finishing the old.  Anyway, in the new year I will continue working on DOVH and I will start the editing process with ZF.  And of course I will continue starting new projects before completing the old ones :)

   3.  Read at least 30 books.
This was my most successful goal.  If you read my post from yesterday then you know that I exceeded my reading goal this year.  I read 35 books, and I am super proud of myself.  Click on the image to visit my Pinterest page of books I read in 2015.

   4.  Post on this blog at least twice a week.
Ok, this one I am calling a win.  I may not have posted twice a week every week this year, but by the end of the year I had a posting schedule blocked out and I stuck to it for a few weeks.  I feel really good about the schedule and plan to continue it into the new year.