2016 Reading Challenges

Happy New year everyone!

I hope everyone had a nice time ringing in the new year. I was asleep when the clock struck 12, since I had to be at work at 6 am this morning.

I didn't feel I should do a 2015 recap post since my reading was pretty sparse last year. But, I did update my reading challenges page to include my progress with last years goals, so you can check out those updates if you're interested.

If I'm honest with myself, this years reading will probably not be all that much better, since I'm planning to make a major move within the next six months, so that my husband and I can finally (!) start our lives together. That will take a ton of time and planning to get that all done. Which means a lot less time for reading. But, I'm going to set some simple goals and see what I can accomplish.

This year my reading/blogging goals are:

• To read 75 books
• To read a total of 16,000 pages
• To write and post 1 review or general post a week on the blog
• To send some of my books off to new homes before I move with some "if it fits it ships giveaways." For these giveaways I will be compiling a list of the books that I have to give away and letting my blog readers select the books from the list they are interested in. However many can fit in whatever box I have will be the number of books the winner will get.

What are your reading/blogging goals for this year?

2015 Reading Challenges

I decided not to do a 2014 recap post, since my reading in 2014 was pretty lackluster.

If you'd like to check out those lackluster results you can take a look at my Past Reading Challenges page

I'm keeping this year's goals simple again.

• Continue with my goal of reading 1,000,000 pages in my lifetime:  Currently 93,022 pages
• Read 115 Books
• Read 15,000 pages
• Witches and Witchcraft Reading Challenge (Detailed post on this coming soon)

What are your reading goals this year?

2013 Reading Challenges

Another new year is here and it's time for me to set some new challenges for myself. These will just be personal reading challenges for now. I'm still trying to decide which official challenges to join if any, so you may see a few signup posts related to those as well if there are any I decide to join.

Personal Reading Challenges for 2013:

• Continuing on my journey to read 1 million pages in my lifetime: Currently: 72,348 pages
• Read for 1 hour each day: I may keep a log of minutes read and report it in my Sunday posts to keep myself accountable.
• Read 105 books. I'm really hoping for more than this, but I'll start out small and increase the goal if I go over it.
• Read at least 30,000 pages this year.

Group Reading Challenges:

Last year I signed up to do a 12X12 challenge on Goodreads. The idea was to read 12 different books in 12 different categories. Since I only read 104 books I didn't make it, but I figured I'd try again this year, but the GR group I'm in One Million Pages Per Lifetime  is letting us choose the number of categories we want to do. We have to read 13 books in each category: Right now I'm planning to do 10 categories

My Categories:

Author Review Requests
First in Series
Further in Series
Biography/Memoir/Autobiography
Paranormal Creatures-Witches
Romance
E-books
Books won from Giveaways
Non-Fiction
Food and Drink

My progress will be updated on my 2013 Reading Challenges page on a weekly basis. I'm thinking I'll update the page on Saturdays or Sundays.


What reading challenges have you joined or what reading goals have you set for yourself this year?