2016 Challenges

I'm co-hosting this challenge with the ladies @Chapter Break and Terri @Second Run Reviews. 

My goal for 2016 is 51+ Books or My Shelves and I Are Going Steady. To help me in achieving this goal, I'm challenging myself to read 8 books I own before reading a new release.

How'd I Do?

I ended up reading 70 books off my shelves. I'm more than Going Steady with my shelves...I'm fully committed. :)

Laura @Trips Down Imagination Road and Michelle @Because Reading are once again hosting the Bookish Resolutions Challenge in 2016.

My Goals for 2016

• Blogging Goals
• Keep up with commenting back weekly
• Link up my challenge posts bi-weekly
• Learn some HTML to change up format of posts
• Reading Goals
• Raise my Netgalley rating to 50%
• Read books my kids *need* me to read
• Alice in Wonderland
• Death with Interruptions 
• Everything is Illuminated
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Listening for Lucca
• School of Good and Evil
• The Things They Carried
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• Wonderstruck
• Personal Goals
• Stick to my daily schedule

How'd I Do?
I did okay with my goals. Some I could have done better - most I could have done *much* better. But I've tweaked my goals for 2017 and I think I'll be more successful because of it.

The Reading Assignment Challenge is hosted by Berls @Fantasy is More Fun and Michelle @Because Reading.

For 2016, I'm aiming for Level 2 or 2 books per month. Here is my Reading Assignment list of books:

How'd I Do?
I only read 8 books from my reading list. :( This is the second year in a row I've failed at this challenge. So I'm knocking my goal down to 12 for next year. Fingers crossed it'll make the difference.

Lexxie @Unconventional Book Views and Stormi @Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My! are co-hosting this challenge once again in 2016.

Since I'm aiming to show my shelves some love in 2016 and read books I already own, I'm only aiming for the New Release Pro status or 16-30 books. We shall see how I do! ;)

How'd I Do?
I knocked this one out of the ballpark! Of course, that meant I read way more new releases than I'd intended to which also means it took time away from reading books I already owned. But still. 57 books is an accomplishment!

Herding Cats & Burning Soup and Addicted to Happily Ever After are hosting this challenge meant to 'shame' me into reading all those many, many ARCs I've collected but haven't read. ;)

Goal

I'm aiming for getting 20 Review Books read and reviewed. I'm setting this goal without looking to see how many of these *forgotten* books I have...but it seems like a good goal to start with. :D

How'd I Do?
I only read 11 books for this challenge and while I didn't hit my goal, that's 11 books needing my attention and review that are no longer waiting.