Bout of Books 18 [Day 3 Progress]

[GOALS]
**Read a little every day
**Finish two books
**Find new bloggers to follow
**Find new Booktubers to subscribe to

[DAY 3 PROGRESS]
TOTAL PAGES READ: 227 | BOOKS FINISHED: 0

CURRENTLY READING:
 

I ended up visiting a ton of blogs and tweets yesterday and that was awesome! I found one new Booktuber via a FB book club: Thoughts on Tomes. Starting at 37% today on The Edge of Everything. Really hoping to make a dent in it today. Finished at 83% today! 176 pages read.

2016 Series Challenge: Finish Line

It is time to wrap up my series challenge for 2016. Last update in October, I was at 21 books read, 3 series finished and 4 new series started. My stats for the end of 2016:

• 24 books in a series read
• 5 series finished (because I DNF'd two books and decided to no longer continue them)
• 5 new series started

I also removed one series off of my TBR because it is supposed to be a trilogy, however, the author has not stated when the third book will be out and there has literally been no word for like 5 years now. I've been much more liberal about removing books from my TBR lately because I have entirely too many books to read and I would like closure on series and not to be hanging on bated breath for decades for a book that will never come.  I am looking forward in 2017 to finishing more series because it looks like I basically broke even here in 2016 - finished 5, started 5. :)

I highlighted all the to-be-released books in purple.

Bout of Books 18 [Day 2 Progress]

[GOALS]
**Read a little every day
**Finish two books
**Find new bloggers to follow
**Find new Booktubers to subscribe to

[DAY 2 PROGRESS]
TOTAL PAGES READ: 51 | BOOKS FINISHED: 0

CURRENTLY READING:


I got a little overwhelmed yesterday because I was bad and didn't prep any of my blog stuff for the day. I run two blogs and I was like OHNOOOOO. So I didn't read until I crawled into bed. Today I will do better. I'm hoping to visit between 10 and 15 blogs and leave a little love :)
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I read 44 pages today. Not too shabby.

Bout of Books 18 [Goals + Day 1]

It's BOB time once again! I am looking forward to starting the year off on the right foot. My reading goal for the year is to read 52 books, which is 1 a week. I am not making a monthly TBR, but rather flying by the seat of my pants and reading what I want when I want. So I have no true books set aside to reading during BOB.

I signed up to be an Expert (it's at least my 2nd if not 3rd time doing it) because I have participated since Bout of Books 4. That makes this my 15th BOB readathon. How crazy is that? It literally is my favorite readathon ever and I'm so excited every time it rolls around!

I finally got around to finding some Booktubers even though I know that has been around for years. I am now obsessed with Emmmabooks, MichaelBookLion, Peruse Project, and Hailey in Bookland. I am, however, looking for more Booktubers to follow, so please leave me a comment, tweet me, etc. with your favorite Booktubers. It is one of my goals this BOB to find more to subscribe to :)

I may update occasionally on Twitter and will definitely be updating frequently on my Goodreads. 

[GOALS]
**Read a little every day
**Finish two books
**Find new bloggers to follow
**Find new Booktubers to subscribe to

[DAY 1 PROGRESS]
TOTAL PAGES READ: 7 | BOOKS FINISHED: 0

CURRENTLY READING:


I have only read a teensy bit because I totally forgot BOB started today and then I was also super behind on all my blogging stuff for today :S I did join in with the Twitter chat which also included the introduce yourself in 6 words challenge: Married Mom, Bookworm, Planner, Anxiety Prone. That's me :)

January TBR List + Upcoming Releases

This year I have decided to not carry on the list that I have had for the last few years. I am going to basically just read as I go and read books I really want to read when I want to read them. My goal for 2017 is 52 books. One book for each week. Here are a few books that I am thinking about reading in January:

1. Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst: I received this in my December OwlCrate box and it was already on my to-read shelf on Goodreads!
2. The remaining books of the Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris. I started book 10 (reread) and then I want to reread 11 and FINALLY read 12 and 13. If I don't do it soon, I will forget everything and have to reread the entire series again LOL
3. The entire Series of Unfortunate Events series...again. Because I am so so so excited about the show and I am wanting to reread these books to remember all the ins and outs!