A Year in Review ~ 2021

Another year in the books—literally and figuratively—and I have some things I want to review about 2021. As is common among most bloggers, and many readers in general, I had a goal of how many books I wanted to read this year. which I catalogued on both GoodReads and StoryGraph. Now, both those sites count each book read in any format you enter, so the math on both sites is a little off due to my preference of reading (and reviewing) audiobooks alongside their texts... Regardless, I set my goal at a nice, even 50 books for the year. This would not only be a bit of a record for me in my post-college life, but something I hoped would fill the downtime and serve as a bit of distraction during the tumultuous year many of us have had.

A Few New Challenges 2014

2014 Reading Challenge
Hosted by GoodReads

Goal: 50 Books

A yearly challenge for me, and one fairly easy to keep track of. GoodReads does all the work for me. Still, I'm looking forward to reaching my overall goal of 50 different titles (instead of counting repeats for audiobooks) in 2014.

2013 Challenges Wrap-Up

2013 Reading Challenge
Hosted by GoodReads

Completed: 40/50

Well, isn't that a nice block of books there? So symmetrical and colorful.

I'm very happy to have read this many books this year. Much, much more than I managed to read last year. And because of the many duplicates I read (audiobooks along with print/electronic books), GoodReads actually says I met my goal! So while I may have re-read a couple books, and technicalities work in my favor, I'm still very happy to have accomplished all I did for this challenge.

2013 Netgalley Knockout

Hosted by Goldilox and the Three Weres

Are you overwhelmed with the amount of egalleys you have to read?

Do you keep requesting those egalleys anyway?

Feel like Netgalley and Edelweiss are going to hunt you down?

Knock out those egalleys!

2013 Netgalley Knockout!

Here's all the details you need to know:

• Netgalley Knockout will run from July 1 - September 30
  
• You are not limited to ebooks from Netgalley! You can include any ebook you have received for review from Netgalley, Edelweiss, or from a publisher or author directly. It just must be an ebook and it must be a review book.
  
• You can only count books that you read from July 1 to September 30. Nothing read before the challenge starts or after it ends will count toward the challenge!
  
• You do not have to only include books released during the months July, August, or September - but you can include these, of course! Any electronic review book counts, whether it has already been released or is still yet to be released!
  

Again, even if the book has already been released, if you're reading a review ebook copy of it then it counts toward the challenge!

***And if you find this challenge after July 1st - no worries! You can join the challenge through the linky all the way up to September 1st if you'd like!***

PLUS

There will be a giveaway for any blogs who link up their wrap up post at the end of the challenge in September! Every blog on that linky will be entered and one winner will be randomly chosen to receive an ebook of their choice under $15.00 from the ebook seller of their choice!

Just link up your post about joining the Netgalley Knockout challenge at the host's blog, Goldilox and the Three Weres! Your post can be as simple as "Here's a new challenge I'm joining, here's the link to find out more information".

And feel free to grab the button above and add it to your blog's sidebar. That would be *awesome* of you!

Share in the comments below or in your sign up post how many of your egalley books you plan to knockout during this challenge!

SIGN UP!

Since I've managed to accumulate about 14 review galleys that I need to read, I'll be aiming for a nice even 10 books for this challenge.

The Fire Inside by Raymond Rose ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Moon Spell by Samantha Young ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Moonstone by Marilee Brothers ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Moon Rise by Marilee Brothers ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Moon Spun by Marilee Brothers ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Shadow Moon by Marilee Brothers ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Her Majesty's Will by David Blixt ~ Amazon | GoodReads

The White Oak by Kim White ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Blüd & Magick by Preston Norton ~ Amazon | GoodReads

School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins ~ Amazon | GoodReads

Ink by Amanda Sun ~ Amazon | GoodReads

The Companions by R. A. Salvatore ~ Amazon | GoodReads

The Godborn by Paul S. Kemp ~ Amazon | GoodReads

I figure between all of these, I should be able to get at least 10, if not more. Overall, I'm pretty excited to give this a try.

How about you all? Got any review ebooks waiting to be cracked open?
Leave a comment below, and wish me luck!


Keep track of my progress on my Reading Challenges page.