**updates**
Can you believe that Christmas is just around the corner!? Where did the year go?
Can you believe that Christmas is just around the corner!? Where did the year go?
In 2016 I started with a reading goal of 75 books. I was part of a 54 book challenge with my coworkers and then an online reading group “book hunting” challenge so I thought it was a fair enough target. Happy to report that not only did I meet that challenge, I blew it out of the water. Around July, I think, I ended up moving that target to 120 books. As of today I have read 121! And I still have time left to wrap up a few more.
With all the reading that I did get done there is a lot that got left behind. In January I plan to have a “TBR clean up” personal challenge. I started a bullet journal in September and tracked various challenges and some of them I was unable to finish in the challenged time slot, so my TBR cleanup is born from those as well as other sources!
“TBR Clean Up Challenge”
October Challenge:
#1 A book with a bug on the cover
#2 A classic horror novel
#3 A book about creatures of the night
#4 A ghost or supernatural story
#5 A book by Ramsey Campbell
#6 A book of witches
*A book with a black cover
*A scary book turned movie
*A book about a haunting
*A book with a Halloween theme
Avnet Literary Challenge:
*The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg
*The Children’s Home - Charles Lambert
Penguin First To Read:
*Nemesis - Brendan Reichs
*The Lonely Hearts Club - Heather O'Neill
*My Husband’s Wife - Jane Corry
December Challenge:
#1 A book based in/about Christmas
#2 A book with a winter weather condition in the title
#5 A book received on Christmas
The Coffin Dance - Jeffrey Deaver
The Coffin Dance - Jeffrey Deaver
Currently Reading: (not including the ones already mentioned above)
*Change Management: The People Side of Change - Jeffrey Hiatt
*How to Become a Brilliant Leader - Carla Howard
*The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
*Slow Burn: Infected - Bobby Adair
If you’re counting, yes that is a lot of books to read in January (if I can’t finish any more before the new year)! But hey… have some faith! Some of these books I am currently reading so it’s not like it’s the whole book I have to read! Also, its #24in48 January 21-22! I am hoping to beat last year’s 4.5 hours and get at least 5 if not 6 hours! My hubby is already getting mad since you know I have the hubby to spend time with, 2 kiddos (3 and 2yrs old) that need all the attention less if I want the house to fall down, 5 dogs to walk and play with, and last but not least…2 piggies that need cuddles and kisses! Oh yeah… and food to buy and laundry to clean… *exhausted just thinking about it*
What are all your reading goals? Any books that still need to be finished come the new year?
Come February the lovely @thetallented (Instagram) has a new challenge for the #coolbookbitches and the Avnet Literary Club should be getting two new books (one business and one non-fiction). So I’ll probably do another clean up come March-April!
check out my Instagram @shelf.loving to see pictures of my books and @kiraandreyeva for pictures of all the pets!
