Scott and Sue Family

Another reading year has come to an end and here’s the tally for the year. Fun Fact: I read the exact number of books this year as last year! What? My re-reads were down, audio-books up, and series books really up. Looking forward to a great reading year in 2018!

Books read: 162
Pages read: 49,126
Of the books read:
Non-fiction: 14
New-to-me authors: 32
Continuing series books: 94
Re-reads: 22
Audio-books: 78
Various book club reads: 9
Challenges completed: 14 of 14
Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 75 of 96
5 star ratings by me: 20 [Read more…] about 2017 Reading Stats

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2017

I’ve done this challenge every year of its existence so this was year #5. I sign up every year for Mt. Ararat at 48 books and manage to wheeze to the top by December. I stuck with the same level this year and hiked quite steadily up to Mt. Ararat, reaching it in the fall, but my reading stalled out in December. I managed 59 books by finishing a TBR on New Year’s Eve, but missed that elusive Mt. Kilimanjaro level by one book! I’m proud that I got so many books off my shelves, though.

Thanks to the host of this challenge, Bev at My Reader’s Block. [Read more…] about Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2017 wrap-up

2017 Monthly Keyword Reading Challenge

This challenge was hosted by My Soul Called Life and is a challenge I’ve done in the past but took off a couple years to do other challenges. I did it again this year, but during the year the host disappeared and we haven’t been able to post monthly reviews. Her blog is now gone. But I decided to carry on and finish it up anyway.

Six keywords are associated with each month in 2017 and we read one book each month whose title includes one or more of the keywords for that month. The book title chosen can be a variation on one of the keywords. Meaning, we can tweak the keywords. At the beginning of the year I looked at my stacks and chose books to fulfill the challenge. Those are in italics. Actual books read are in red. You can see how well I stuck to my original plan, 5 of 12. On the bright side, 3 of the others were from my TBR stacks, so still a win in clearing out shelves.
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