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2017 Reading Goals and Challenges

Welcome back to my week of 2016 wrap-up posts! The year isn't quite over yet (unfortunately), but it's already time to start looking ahead and planning for next year! I think I've spent more time planning next year's reading than I have for any other year - side effects of blogging, I guess! This post is basically the sum of all of those reading resolutions - personal goals and more organized challenges. 1) Read at least a little bit every day. One of the weirdest things about my reading habits since I got to college is that the time I spend reading each day varies greatly. I can go from finishing a book in a day to not reading for fun for two weeks, which is really weird for me. I want to make an effort to always be reading something, even if I only get through 3 pages a day. 2) Read more books by authors of color. I talk a lot about how I want to read more diversely, but looking back at the books I read over the year, I was unpleasantly surprised to find t...

End-Of-Year Book Survey 2016

Welcome back to my week of 2016 wrap-up posts! Today I 'm doing the end-of-year book sur vey created by Jamie @ Perpet ual Page Turner , which I saw last year and unfortunately didn't have time to fill out. But I'm doing it this year ! (All of the graphics are Jamie's , too - they were so beautif ul that I didn't want to create anything different!) 2016 may have been an absolute garbage fire in pretty much all respects, but it was a good year for me reading - and blogging-wise. Lo oking back at what I've read and what I've done, I'm really happy with it all. I'll be answering this surve y with the books that I read in 2016, regardless of p u bli cation year . Honestly, I don't think I read enough 2016 books to really fill out this survey well just sticking to them!    Number of Books You Read: 159 , not including rereads. (This might go up to 160 if I finish one that I'm in the middle of right now.) Number of Re-Reads: 21 (...