December Book Tally and 2015 Bookish Goals

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Steifvater
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Jewel by Amy Ewing
Hawkeye vol 3 by Matt Fraction
A Beginner's Guide To Rakes by Suzanne Enoch
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow
Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare
Open Road Summer by Emery Lord
Centaur Rising by Jane Yolen
Pride and Precipitation by Heather Horrocks
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

I actually reviewed quite a few books in December. Plus I read some good ones too.

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 2 ( Any Duchess Will Do and A Beginner's Guide To Rakes) YTD: 27

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 2 ( Any Duchess Will Do and A Beginner's Guide To Rakes)) YTD: 17

What's In A Name Challenge This month:1 (Pride and Precipitation) YTD: 6

Yearly Total: 152

How did I do on my goals?

-Participate in the What's In A Name Challenge. Done. Read all 6 books for that challenge.

-Read 10 books for the Historical Reading Challenge. Done. I actually read 17.

-Participate in the Book Bingo Challenge. Done. I'm a super reader. I finished that one in October. So sad this one won't be back in 2015 :(

-Read 12 books for the Romance Reading Challenge. Done. I read 28 romances.

-Read 150 books! Done. I read 152!

2015 Bookish Goals

-Participate in the What's In A Name Challenge.

-Read and review 24 books for the Graphic Novel and Manga Challenge.

-Read 14-18 books for the Foodies Read Challenge.

-Read 150 books!

November Book Tally

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Endless Chain by Emilie Richards
The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey
My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins
The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire
Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Leob
The Secret Service by Mark Millar
Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale
Peanut by Ayun Halliday
Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth


I didn't have a month like last month :( But I did read some good books. I'm still getting closer to my goal so it's all good.


Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 0 ( none this month) YTD: 26

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 0 ( none this month) YTD: 15

What's In A Name Challenge This month:0 (none this month) YTD: 5

Yearly Total: 140

October Book Tally

The Girl With The Windup Heart by Kady Cross
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer
Rites of Passage by Joy N Hensley
Sex Criminals Vol 1 by Matt Fraction
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (reread)
Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare
Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
Big Little Lies by Laine Moriarty
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
This Night So Dark by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
The Spectral Engine by Ray Fawkes
Coffin Hill Vol 1 by Caitlin Kittredge
A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing In Old New York bu Liana Finck
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Holy Terror by Frank Miller
The Devil Wears Kilts by Suzanne Enoch
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
Golden Girl by Sarah Zettel

Twenty books this month. What a month! Although I didn't read a whole lot for the Read-a-thon, I still read a lot this month. Plus I finished the Book Bingo Challenge! Yay! Another month like this and I'll have a 150 books read before Thanksgiving. A lot of great books too. Big Little Lies was so fantastic. I've been telling everyone to read it.

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 4 (Beauty and The Blacksmith, The Devil Wears Kilts, Perfect Chemistry, and The Governess Affair ) YTD: 26

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 2 ( The Governess Affair and The Devil Wears Kilts) YTD: 15

What's In A Name Challenge This month:1 (Perfect Chemistry) YTD: 5

Yearly Total: 130

September Book Tally

Once Upon A Kiss by Jayne Fresina
Strange And Ever After by Susan Dennard
Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott
Isla and The Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
Journey by Aaron Becker
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
The Supernaturalist: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer
Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge
Jane, The Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt
Supercrooks by Mark Millar
Just One Year by Gayle Forman
Just One Night by Gayle Forman
A Lady By Midnight by Tessa Dare

Not a bad month but I started a lot of books that I didn't finish. Once I get to a 100 books I seem to lose interested in reading. I've decided to look for more light fun books. Perhaps a lot more graphic novels?

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 6 (Once Upon A Kiss, Isla and The Happily Ever After, Wildthorn, Just One Year, Just One Night, A Lady By Midnight ) YTD: 22

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 2 ( A Lady By Midnight and Once Upon A Kiss) YTD: 13

What's In A Name Challenge This month: 0 (none this month) YTD: 4

Yearly Total: 110

August Book Tally

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Just One Day by Gayle Forman
Shattered by Kevin Hearne
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Legion by Brandon Sanderson
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel
The Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Goodnight June by Sarah Jio
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Beauty Experiment by Phoebe Baker Hyde
 Royally Lost by Angie Stanton
A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann
Sin Titulo by Cameron Stewart
The Cape by Jason Ciaramella 

My second best month so far. I got a lot read and a lot of really good books too. I've almost made to a 100 books for the year. I really wanted to get it done in August but I could find time to finish three books over the Labor Day weekend :( Oh, well.

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 2(A Week To Be Wicked and Royally Lost) YTD: 16

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 1 ( A Week To Be Wicked) YTD: 11

What's In A Name Challenge This month: 0 (none this month) YTD: 4

Yearly Total: 97

July Book Tally

Saga vol 3 by Brian K Vaughan

Constance by Rosie Thomas

The Here and Now by Ann Brashares

Zombillenium: Gretchen by Arthur de Pins

Somerset by Leila Meacham

Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins

Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour

Trapped At The Altar by Jane Feather

The Library by Sarah Stewart

July seems to have gone by quickly. A busy month with one huge book meant less books. A lot of good books but fewer than I would have liked. Hopefully I have more time for reading August. 

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 1(Trapped At The Altar) YTD: 14

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 2 ( Somerset and Trapped At The Altar) YTD: 10

What's In A Name Challenge This month: 1 (The Here and Now) YTD: 4

Yearly Total: 81

June Reading Tally

Silk is for Seduction by Loretta Chase
Victorian Secrets by Sarah A Chrisman
The One by Kiera Cass
Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg
Life On Another Planet by Will Eisner
Everlasting Enchantment by Kathryne Kennedy
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Sin City vol 1 by Frank Miller
Sin City vol 2 by Frank Miller
The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
Odin's Ravens by KL Armstrong and MA Marr
Gluten is My Bitch by April Peveteaux
A Night To Surrender by Tessa Dare
Once Upon A Winter's Eve by Tessa Dare

 Fourteen read this month. I think my reading slump is over. A lot of good reads. A lot of graphic novels. I see more graphic novels in my immediate future. I'm inching toward my goal of 150 books this year. At the halfway point, I'm pretty close to being halfway done.

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 4 (Silk Is For Seduction, The One, A Night To Surrender, and Once Upon A Winter's Eve) YTD: 13

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 3 ( Silk is for Seduction, A Night To Surrender, and Once Upon A Winter's Eve) YTD: 8

What's In A Name Challenge This month: 0 (none this month) YTD: 3

Yearly Total: 72

May Reading Tally

The Ocean At The End of The Lane by Neil Gaiman

What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Enchanting The Beast by Kathryne Kennedy

Mercury by Hope Larson

The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

Caffeinated by Murray Carpenter

Glory vol 1 by Joe Keatinge

Hidden by Loïc Dauvillier

Only eight read this month. I was glad to finish The Ocean At The End of The Lane. I'd been listening to it for ages. 

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 3 (What I Thought Was True, Enchanting The Beast, and The Winter Rose) YTD: 9

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 1 ( The Winter Rose) YTD: 5

What's In A Name Challenge This month: 0 (none this month) YTD: 3

Yearly Total: 58

April Reading Tally

Locke & Key vol 6 by Joe Hill

Wild Desire by Lori Brighton

The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger

Infinite by Jodi Meadows

Of Dice and Men by David M. Ewalt

A Study In Silk by Emma Jane Holloway

Cress by Marissa Meyer

Glacial Period by Nicolas De Crecy

The Girl Who Owned A City by OT Nelson

Set To Sea by Drew Weing

Last Day in Vietnam by Will Eisner

The Great American Dust Bowl by Dan Brown

Made for Each Other by Paul D Storrie

The Selection Stories by Kiera Cass

Phoenix Overture by Jodi Meadows
A Darkness Strange and Lovely by Susan Dennard
The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen

Seventeen books. Another great month. I'm ahead (right now) on my Goodreads Reading Challenge. Thank you read-a-thon! Plus I made it to 50 books! One-third down and two-thirds to go!

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 1 (Wild Desire) YTD: 6

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 0 ( none this month) YTD: 4

What's In A Name Challenge This month: 0 (none this month) YTD: 3

Yearly Total: 50

March Book Tally

The Dinner by Herman Koch
I Love Him To Pieces by Evonne Tsang
Double Enchantment by Kathryne Kennedy
A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller
The Absolutely True Diary of A Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
Tsarina by J. Nellie Patrick
Bayou vol 2 by Jeremy Love

I slumped hard this month. While I read some great books, I couldn't seem to want to pick them up. It's ok. The readathon is this month and that usually helps me out numbers and slumpwise.

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 2 (A Mad, Wicked Folly and Double Enchantment) YTD: 5

Historical Reading Challenge  This month:3 ( A Mad, Wicked Folly, I Shall Be Near To You, and Tsarina) YTD: 4

What's In A Name Challenge This month:0 (none this month) YTD: 3

Yearly Total: 33

February Book Tally

Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope

Enchanting The Lady by Katheryne Kennedy

Paris Was The Place by Susan Conley

A Dawn Most Wicked by Susan Dennard

Boy21 by Matthew Quick

Level Up by Gene Luen Yang

Clara and Mr Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

You Have Killed Me by Jamie Rich

Alice in Tumblr-land by Tim Manley

The Cute Girl Network by MK Reed

Brain Camp by Susan Kim

Morning Glory by Sarah Jio

Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard

Thirteen this month. One more than Janurary. Pretty good for such a short month. I did read several graphic novels. I have more on hold at the library so I see more graphic novels in March.

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 2 (Enchanting the Lady and Sense and Sensibility) YTD: 3

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 0 (none this month) YTD: 1

What's In A Name Challenge This month:1 (Clara and Mr Tiffany) YTD: 3

Yearly Total: 25

January Book Tally

Cornerstone by Kelly Walker
Ten Ways To Be Adored While Landing A Lord by Sarah MacLean
Stumptown vol 2 by Greg Rucka
The Wild Adventures of Jasper Renn by Kady Cross
Parasite by Mira Grant
Joyland by Stephen King
The Property by Rutu Modan
Lazarus vol 1 by Greg Rucka
Eleven Scandals To Start To Win A Lord's Heart by Sarah MacLean
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
The Best Exotic Hotel Marigold by Deborah Moggach
Wild Heart by Lori Brighton

A great start to the new year. Twelve books this month. A bunch of great reads.

Stats:

Romance Reading Challenge This month: 1 (Wild Heart) YTD: 1

Historical Reading Challenge  This month: 1 (Wild Heart) YTD: 1

What's In A Name Challenge This month: 2 (Ten Ways To Be Adored While Landing A Lord and Eleven Scandals To Start To Win A Lord's Heart) YTD: 2

Yearly Total: 12