Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2016

What's on my TBR #02 February 2016


I think I'd have to say my first monthly TBR post I was pretty successful with! I mean, sure, I only read 7 out of the 11 books that I had wanted to attempt to read...but I am pretty freaking happy with that number!


Not to bad. Though I think I got too ambitious with those last 4 HP books since the shortest one is nearly 700 pages! Yeah...too ambitious haha.

Oh well. On to this month's picks!



As you can see I have a pretty eclectic stack of books I'd like to read this month, a little bit of Historical Romance, Some YA Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Paranormal and even a memoir type! I'm hoping I'm not once again overly ambitious with these 10 books but I guess time will tell!

Happy February lovelies! :)



Sunday, January 31, 2016

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.


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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:







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:




(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? :)




Friday, January 1, 2016

What's on my TBR #01 January 2016

 


Happy 2016 Everybody!!

So since I've dubbed this year to be the year of the TBR (although let's face it, I will probably sneak in quite a few books that haven't been collecting dust on my shelves) I'm going to be setting goals for myself every month in which there will be several books that I would really like to get read. Let's get to the first one shall we?

January 2016 TBR


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I am doing the Series a Month challenge and the series I chose to start the new year off with is The Mortal Instruments. I loved the first one but it wasn't until last year that I finally picked up the rest from BookOutlet. So excited! Then around the middle of December I had started my reread of the Harry Potter books and I'm up to Goblet of Fire which has always been my all time favorite so I'm even more excited to get to those next. And I threw one extra book on there just in case I have enough time, though both HP and MI have a few large books in there so I might not even get all of these this month but my fingers are crossed!

Happy reading this month lovelies!