End of the Month 2016 [March]

Holy books, Batman! Not only did I crush my March TBR, but I ended up adding quite a few more after that. I mean, by mid month I had already read all the books I wanted to get read and so I just kept pulling them off my shelf.

I'm never like this. But it was like I would finish a book and then I would be extremely fidgety. As if I couldn't sit still. And the only thing that fixed that was picking up another book. I may end up coming to regret it because who knows how much of each of the books I read I absorbed, but I couldn't stop myself.

Thank god I'm not a drug addict am I right?

So here was my TBR:

And all the extras I read:

(+ a few DNFed books)

Total TBR books read: 10/10!

+ 6 full sized books and 3 comics extra!

How They Rated:

(My DNFs)

I will more than likely end up giving Defiance a second shot at some point in the future. I think my problem with that one was just bad timing and not being fully in the mood for it. The School for Good and Evil, however I will NOT be giving a second try. No, no, no, no, no.

Even though the White Rabbit Chronicles destroyed me this month, this book also destroyed my soul but in a completely different way. It's the kind of book that I will carry with me for a long, long time. Sigh. I wanna read it again now. I miss Moses.

I have read plenty of Middle Grade books over the years and have absolutely loved them. So when I say that the immaturity level of this book and the writing style annoyed the ever loving crap out of me it's not a thing where "oh maybe you're just too old to read MG" that's definitely not the case. The appeal of this book was just lost on me and it was not my kind of thing. Don't hate me if you loved this book I'm not trying to say anything against you personally, trust me I'm sure there are tons of books that I've loved that would make you look at me funny! We all have different tastes and this one wasn't mine!

I've been in the midst of a review writing block for about 3 months now. But one of the days when I was trying to keep myself from consuming another book so shortly after finishing the previous one I went on a review writing spree. So I finally have something to list here! (I haven't written one since....sigh)

03/15/16 - Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

03/18/16 - Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

03/22/16 - Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

03/25/16 - Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

03/30/16 - The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare [Series Review]

What's on my TBR #03  [March 2016]

Book Haul [March 2016]

Monday Musts

#08 | #09 | #10 | #11

W...W...W...Wednesday

#08 | #09 | #10 | #11 | #12

Goal: To complete a (mostly) unread series each month!

March Progress: The Grisha (1 reread, 2 new to me)

Books: (Reread) Shadow and Bone, (New) Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising

Goal: At least 1 book each month that I've owned prior to 01/01/16

March Progress: 12 out of 16 books read

Books: Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising, Every Last Breath, Alice in Zombieland, Everything, Everything, Oblivion, The Law of Moses, Ugly Love, Since You've Been Gone, Just Listen, Lock and Key, The Truth About Forever

Goal: Level 4 (Expert Series Reader) - Complete 7 or more series that you started previously but never finished.

March Progress: 3 books this month finished 2 different series!

Books: Siege and Storm + Ruin and Rising (The Grisha), Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements)

Total Progress: 4/7

Goal: Grand Slam goal of 21+ books!

March Progress: 6 

Books: Everything, Everything, Just Listen, Lock & Key, The Truth About Forever, Ugly Love, Since You've Been Gone

Total Progress: 14/21

Goal: There are 40 different types of books to read in this challenge. If I hit 30 I'll be happy and satisfied!

March Progress: 1 (Smashed it am I right?)

Total Progress: 12/40

(Click the image to get a zoomed in view and detailed progress)

And that was my March! I've already got a huge pile of books sitting on my desk all ready and waiting for April. Who knows if my out of control reading habits will continue on. Part of me hopes that yes they will because I haven't read very many lackluster books. But who knows how long that streak will last.

How did your March go?

Have anything you're looking forward to in April?

Have a great month everyone! :)

End of the Month 2016 [January]

Okay time. You can seriously slow the hell down any time now. First I was coasting along minding my own 2015 business, then I blink and it's 2016, then I blink again and it's February! 

Well, at least I got some good reading done this month. I finished 10 books this past month. Not all the books I had aimed for with my January TBR but I got the majority of them in!

I had started a reread of the Harry Potter books back in December and even though I really wanted to finish them, I was too excited to get into my first choice for the Series a Month challenge. I got so absorbed in The Mortal Instruments that I really allowed myself to savor it. Which left myself no time for the last 4 books in the HP series. Ah well. Hopefully I'll fit them in one of these days :/

I also squeezed in a couple of quick contemporaries this month when all I had handy was my Kindle and really wanted to read (since my TMI books are all physical copies). So I also read:

Series enders always make me so freaking nervous but, while this one did have me constantly on the edge of my seat, it was a fantastic ending!

It's not like this was horrible, though it did have it's moments that made me want to put it down...permanently. It's just kind of here by default really because everything else I read was just so much better.

(Click the banners to go to my individual challenge pages)

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

City of Bones was a reread, the rest were all first timers for me.

Love isn't even a strong enough word for how I'm feeling towards this world...

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

I initially read City of Bones back in 2012 I believe it was and finally did a reread of that all the way through the other 5 this month!

8 out of the 10 books I read this month have been on either my shelf or in my Kindle since at least summer of 2015. I think this reading challenge is going to be my best friend this year! So much cleaning out of the shelves!!

What I read:

City of Ashes

City of Glass

City of Fallen Angels

City of Lost Souls

City of Heavenly Fire

Game for Marriage

Vanilla on Top

Don't Look Back

Even though the bulk of my reading this month was more on the Urban Fantasy side... I did manage to sneak in a few contemporaries to break it up a bit.

What I read in January:

Game for Marriage

Vanilla on Top

Don't Look Back

Royal Marriage Market

(Click on the image to see the 4 books I crossed off my Popsugar list)

While I did get a good number of books read this month, I have absolutely failed at writing reviews. Matter of fact I wrote my first one before doing this post and it goes up in a couple days. Hopefully I can get a few more written tomorrow since I'm taking the next couple days to get some blogging done.

There's really not much else to say about my bookish/blogging world this month. I've read a lot of freaking fantastic (to me at least) books this month, where only one of them was just so-so. I really hope this continues through the rest of my 2016!

How has your reading/blogging life gone this month? Read any exciting books lately? :)