2016 for me as been a very interesting reading year for me. Having moved house in the middle of the year, I took a lot of time doing that with packing etc before the move, moving and then settling in our new place. For me, I can only read when I am relaxed. I cannot read when I am stressed and moving house is one of the most stressful things you could ever do so there was certainly a period of time where my reading slowed way down. That said, I have read some really great books this year and even read more than what I had expected! So, let's first look at what I read in 2016 and then I'll move on to what I plan to read in 2017...
2016 Challenges
Goodreads 100 Book Challenge - OK, so I didn't complete this one but I think I did pretty good to read as much as I did this year considering I moved house also. For me, this year has been more about quality not quantity. Usually when I get busy in life but still want to read, I tend to hurry along and force myself to read when I probably didn't want to. This year I decided not to do that. When I didn't want to read I wouldn't and it made a great deal of difference to my reading.
Read Your Own Books Challenge - For this challenge I didn't want to set a number of books to read to complete this but just wanted to add it to make sure that I didn't forget to read my own books. Being a book blogger I am very fortunate to be able to read review copies of books before they come out, which is fantastic and I love it but sometimes I do forget to read the books that I buy. I am really pleased with how many I read in this section.
Big Book Challenge - This is a challenge that I host on Goodreads (Check it Out Here). It is a challenge where you have to read books that are longer than 400 pages long. I can easily get swept away with wanting to read so many books I only tend to read smaller ones and completely forget that I love to get lost in a big book. This is a great challenge for me and I think I did really well with this one too...
Cecelia Ahern Challenge - Ok, so this one I completely failed at but there's a good reason for that and that reason was that I changed my mind with the author I wanted to read. I was really in the mood for reading Sophie Kinsella books so I decided to go with that author instead and read all of her books, some of which were good and some didn't like as much.
2017 Challenges
Read Your Own Book Challenge - Another challenge that I brought over from last year with the same rules as mentioned above.
Big Book Challenge - This is a challenge that I subscribe to every year and host the Goodreads group for it. I am not planning on setting an amount of books to read on here but hope that I can get to at least 20 for the year.
Jodi Picoult Challenge - I have been wanting to re-read Jodi Picoult's books for a while now and have been slowly collecting them for my bookshelf ready for the day I re-read. I have actually already started this challenge so this one is not 2017 specific but a goal that I want to get stuck into.
Read 5 Classics Challenge - Now this one is a very interesting challenge for me. I don't tend to read classics and find the prospect of reading a classic quite daunting but having read The Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence recently and loved it it has made me want to re-try this challenge. I initially tried to do this challenge I think about a couple of years ago now but failed miserably at it so I am going to give it another go... I have set the bar really low with only 5 books but let's see how that goes.....
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