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I have given up on all challenges. I have had just way too much going on and I’ve come to realize that I do not do well with formal challenges that last the entire year. Short term, like the DystopiYA challenge, fine. My reading tastes change a lot throughout the year. What I want to [...]

A lot has been going on since my last post. All of it non-book/reading related, mostly. My mother spent several weeks in the hospital and a physical therapy program, but is now home again. In that time, I’ve done a lot of reading. What else can you do when you spend 6-8 hours in a [...]

My personal goals: 1) 100 Books (New and Re-reads) 2) Read genres that I don’t normally read 3) Blog more about my reading. Challenges: I’ll be posting lists for the different challenges in their own posts and likely add/change this post throughout the year as I choose to change my goals.

Since finishing the DystopYA Challenges, I’ve gone on to read Have A Little Faith from Mitch Albom and the first 3 Vampire Diaries books from L. J. Smith. I have the 4th book, as well as several others that I want to read. Sometimes, I feel like my to-read shelf on Goodreads gets longer every [...]

I’ve finished 5 books in the DystopYA challenges. I’ve made 2 changes to the list, as I’ve found that I can’t motivate myself to read two of the books that I originally chose. One of them being A Wrinkle in Time and the other being Bridge to Terabithia. I’m sure that I’ll eventually get to [...]