Category: Books

It’s the last day of 2017, fellow readers! Did you make your TBR Challenge goal this year?

As of this writing, I still have 4 books left to read. But I’m not giving up! It still feels like cheating but novellas count the same as novels, and I can read 4 novellas in a day 🙂  We’ll see if I can pull it off today… [UPDATE: I did it!]

I’ve learned a few things about my reading habits this year, too.

–>I am a consummate procrastinator, which I knew about myself long before this TBR Challenge, lol, but I didn’t realize it applied to the way I read. Apparently it does 🙂

–>I am apparently not able to ignore ebooks on sale–I’ve purchased 54 books this year, nearly all of them ebooks and nearly all while they were marked down in price.

–>Audiobooks are not just for migraines anymore, either. I haven’t had a major migraine in months and months (knock on wood!), and I primarily was listening to audiobooks during migraines (very softly, to try to keep my mind off the pain until I fell asleep). This year, I’ve been experimenting with different ways to listen when I’m not in pain, and have crossed a few audiobooks off the TBR list as a result.

Alright, I’m off to get those 4 books read before 2017 ends. But I’ll be back tomorrow with new goals for the new year!

We’re nearly at the end of the year, fellow readers. Are you going to make your TBR Challenge goal?

I’ve got a little bit of a pile to finish before the end of the year–14 books for my overall reading goal, and 11 for my TBR Challenge. With just a few weeks left to go in the year, I’d better get reading! But since my writing deadlines are met for the year and my Day Job is slowing down for the holidays, I ought to have more time for books (though I’ve been saying that off and on all year, lol). I’m also in a outlining/plotting phase for the new novel I’m working on, which means I’ll be going through some of the research books I’ve previously purchased but have not yet read.

Now here’s hoping I can ignore all the holiday sales and not add to my mountainous TBR pile  😉

Three quarters of the year has passed us by, fellow readers. Are you three-quarters of the way to your reading goal?

I, as has become the norm this year, am not. I have begun reading more since Scandalous was published, but the books I’ve chosen are mainly research books for my next novel. That’s enormously fun, but it doesn’t make my TBR pile any smaller. I’ll have to re-focus for October. I have managed to curb my one-clicking a bit this month, though, and that makes me feel better. I may not be reading my older books as much as I’d like, but at least I didn’t make the problem too much worse this month 🙂

My brain has been warring a bit over reading my recent purchases versus reading TBR books, too, so I’ve spent a fair amount of time scrolling through the pages of my e-reader just trying to decide which book to read. I need a new system for choosing or I’ll spend the rest of the year just swiping through the ever-growing list!