October – December, 2016

The last quarter of 2016 was an interesting one:

• I read more books than I anticipated but I DNF’d more books than ever before.
• Contemplated whether or not I was going to keep my blog as self-hosted
  • which I am for another year at least
• Changed my theme once again (and am SO happy I did!).
• I become a Reading Advisory Expert on Riffle Books (check out their Book Expert personal recommendation system!)

By December I was ready for a fresh reading year. I started hunting for challenges in November and found some I’m excited to begin. I also started planning how I wanted to Tackle my TBR this year. I loved my reading plan for 2016 so I wanted to improve it and make sure it worked with my goals for 2017 (which you can find some of below).

Total for Quarter: 63 of Books Read + 3 of Novellas Read

BREAKDOWN:	October	November	December
Nonfiction	–	–	–
Standalones (ARCs)	1	1 (ARCs)	2 1 (ARCs)
TBR Items	2	5	6
Audiobooks	–	3	–
New Series Started (ARCs)	6 (ARCs)	1 2 (ARCs)	3 1 (ARCs)
Series Start to End	2	1	1 (ARCs)
Finished Previous Series	–	4	2
Sequels Read (ARCs)	5	4	3
DNF’d (ARCs)	–	1 1 (ARCs)	4 1 (ARCs)

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Favourite Reads ★★★★★

Least Favourite Reads ★★

*Note: If the review is available, click on the cover! However, due to the nature of my blog (ie I review whole series) it often takes me a few weeks to publish a full review (pending book availability) so look forward to seeing some of these reviews in the upcoming weeks/months if there is no link available!

Check out my favourite (and not so favourite) reads of 2016:

Too many good deals to pass up! So I didn’t list all my purchases but my Christmas present to myself was the paperback boxset of The Mortal Instruments:

SO PRETTY!

I thought it would be fun to keep track of my reading progress from my Kobo this year. While I do own a Kindle now, I mostly use my Kobo for everyday reading. One of my goals in 2016 was to increase the % of finished novels on my Kobo with my various challenges.

Normally I do a month by month comparison but I wanted to see what my totals were like at the end of the year to the start:

• Stats as of February 10, 2016
  • % Of Library Complete: 16%
  • # of Books Finished: 434
  • # of Total Reading Hours: 1739
• Stats as of January 1, 2017
  • Total % Of Library Complete: 20%
  • Total # of Books Finished: 523
  • Total # of Reading Hours: 2107

A jump of 4% might not seem like much in theory I do have close to 1000 books/documents on my Kobo so I did make a good dent in it. And, I do have a Kindle and have been taking out more physical books from my library so my reading isn’t exclusive to my Kobo.

This is for the entire 2016 year:

Most Viewed 2016 Post Make Me Read It Readathon 2016	Most Viewed 2016 Review   Series Review: Made Men
Most Viewed Post Throwdown Thursday: Crossfire vs Fifty Shades	Most Viewed Review Stark Trilogy
View this year’s archives for more posts and reviews!

My 8 most recently updated posts:

2016

The following is my year end totals for all my challenges:

365 Days of YA Challenge: 0/1 Seasonal; 0/2 Monthly;  2/4 Weekly; 3/10 Daily books
Goodreads Challenge: 260/175 books added
Rock My TBR Challenge: 8/12 months + 5/6 of Priority + 80/48 books
Book Blogger Organization Challenge: Completed all but 1 (Update Guides)
Commenting 365 Challenge: 129 Blogs visited

View my Progress Here!

2017

View my Challenge Announcement Post

5 Year 5 Book Challenge: to read select books from the last 5 years (view books)
#Shelflove Challenge: want to read 41-50 books from my TBR
Classics: hope is to read 1 per month
Judged by Cover: this is just to read random books from my library, no set goal

View my Progress Here!

2016 RESOLUTIONS:

This was a Top Ten Tuesday post I did last year. I tried my best to get as many of these done and had some mild success.

1. Clean up blog post tags  –> WIN
2. Tweet at least 6 times a week (excluding post publishing tweets) –> FAIL
3. Update Series Recaps on monthly basis –> WIN
4. Visit 365 Blogs and comment (see my Challenge page for 2016) –> FAIL
5. Be more proactive about cross posting reviews to Goodreads/Riffle/etc –> WIN
6. Read 1 Netgalley book a month –> WIN
7. Read more books from my TBR (see my Rock my TBR Challenge Page) –> WIN
8. Publish my “Trilogy Termination Blitz” reviews –> FAIL (but progress made!)
9. Have no more than 5 books on hold at the library –> BIG WIN
10. Do not start a new series by an author I have unread novels from –> WIN (I think)

I also have a few bucket list items:

1. Participate in 2 Readathons –> Just One
2. Participate in 3 Twitter Chats –> WIN
3. Read 2 Classic Novels –> FAIL

My only resolution for 2017 is to reduce the # of books I purchase in a year. Only if they are on sale will I get the books.

You can still join in on these discussions:

• Riffle List: Kick-ass Heroines
• Discussion: Let Fiction be Fiction
• Perfect Match: Fall 2016 Edition
• Tag: Totally Didn’t
• Discussion: How Long is Too Long Between Sequels
• Tag: Burn, Read or Write
• TTT: Most Anticipated 2017 Releases
• Discussion: Is Predictable a Spoiler?

• Brand new theme!
• Updated old reviews with current format

• Updating old Guides
• Kobo vs Kindle eReaders

I suppose Bruno Mars 24K Magic was my holiday jam.

What were your biggest reading or personal accomplishments of the past year?
Leave a comment below!