2017 Challenges


This challenge is hosted by the ladies @Chapter Break and Terri @Second Run Reviews

My goal for 2017 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 read 85 books!! My Shelves and I Are TOTALLY Going Steady! :)





I'm once again participating in the Bookish Resolutions Challenge. This challenge is hosted by Michelle @Because Reading and Laura @ Trips Down Imagination Road


**MY GOALS FOR 2017**

I've been moderately successful with the challenge the past 2 years but I think I've come up with some tweaks so that I'll be even more so in 2017. Mostly I'm making my goals more specific and therefore more quantifiable. :)
  • Blogging Goals
    • Comment back THREE times a week
    • Visit TEN blogs a day
    • Link up my challenge posts at the end of each month (or last day of the month quarterly for those updating quarterly)
    • Keep track of my progress using my planner
  • Reading Goals
    • NO BOOK BUYING without a gift card (that was gifted!)
    • Read TWO Netgalley reads per month
    • Read (at least) TWO books I already own per month
    • Read ONE book from a series I'm behind in per month
    • Listen to TWO review books per month
    • Read books my kids *need* me to read
      • Born to Run (Jax)
      • Death with Interruptions (Jax)
      • Everything is Illuminated (Sky)
      • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Jax)
      • School of Good and Evil (Berk)
      • The Book Thief (Sky)
      • The Lightning Thief (Berk)
    • Keep track of my progress using my planner and my book journal
  • Personal Goals
    • Exercise FIVE days a week
    • Keep an exercise/food journal
    • Spend an hour daily writing/editing
    • Spend ONE day a month on paper crafting or knitting
    • Keep track of my progress with writing/editing and crafting using my planner
How'd I do? In the end, I did well with some of my goals and not so well with others. Luckily, I look at resolutions as goals so I can keep working at it! :)




    The Reading Assignment Challenge is hosted by Berls @Fantasy is More Fun and Michelle @Because Reading. Essentially, this challenge allows you to create your own "reading list" just like you wanted to do when you were in school. :)


    **MY READING LIST FOR 2017**

    I've failed this challenge for the past 2 years but 2017 is gonna be a game changer! Why? I'm only aiming for ONE book a month. LOL 

    Here's my Reading Assignment List:

    Outlander (Outlander, #1)The TakerRedemption (Penton Legacy, #1)The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)The Scorpio RacesUnleashing Mr. DarcyI'll Meet You ThereTumbleweedsThe Song of AchillesAnd I Darken (The Conquerer's Saga, #1)The Female of the SpeciesRed Rising (Red Rising, #1)

    How'd I do? I read 7 of the 12 books. The first half of the year, I did well reading 1 book a month. Then things got busy and I never quite recovered. *sigh*




    New Release Challenge 2016 - (un)Conventional Bookviews

    Lexxie @Unconventional Book Views and Stormi @Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My! are co-hosting this challenge yet again in 2017. And they made some tweaks to make the challenge a bit more, well, challenging. ;)

    Since I'm aiming to show my shelves some love in 2017 and read books I already own, I'm only aiming for the New Release Pro status or 31-60 books. We shall see how I do! ;)


    How'd I do? I read 46 new releases! I'm a New Release Pro!




    Herding Cats & Burning Soup is 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 got 10 Review Books read and reviewed. I'll try again next year! :)






    This is another challenge being hosted by Herding Cats & Burning Soup and I like this one because there's no finish date...just the finish line whereby I'll have read all the books by a particular author. The first author I'm choosing is: Sabrina Jeffries

    How'd I do? I got 11 books from Ms. Jeffries read and reviewed! I'll be working at finishing her backlist in 2018.



    Audiobook-Challenge-2017

    The Audiobook Challenge is being hosted by Hot Listens and Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

    There are seven levels you can aim for. Since I'm aiming to outdo myself and I listened to 28 audiobooks in 2016, I'm looking to hit 

    My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted)
    30+ audiobooks

    How'd I do? I only got 26 audiobooks listened to...a tad short of my goal. I'll be trying again in 2018!




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