Wednesday, January 1, 2014

2013 In Review



I finally had enough time to do this post. It's been a busy last couple of days, with the holidays and recent development in my personal life, it added a lot to my plate. 2013 is gone and it packed quiet a punch to me and my family, but we are slowly working through it.

As far as blogging goes, I had a wonderful year. In November my blog turned 1 year old! With so much going on with my personal life I had completely missed it, unfortunately. I hope to eventually do a mini giveaway, but it might be a bit while I sort some stuff.

So how did I do? Well I read 150 out of 150 books that I hope to this year! yay I completed the challenge.
Well, at least the goodreads challenge. I have learned that I am terrible at keeping up with other challenges and have entered several and failed to keep track of all of them over the first 2-3 months. So I will not be doing that this year.

I am also trying to get my netgalley reading under control, clearing out the books I have before daring to request more. Of course it's hard, but hey... I am working on it.

Below is a small recap of how the books had fared this year, I had quiet a bit of 5 stars, but only a hand full of them were 5 instead of 4.5. I had a bunch of books that where close to 4 stars and a lot of 3 stars. I realized each time I pick up a new book I probably become more critical then I use to when I first started blogging. 


Outside of that, I hope to have another amazing year. It's going to be hard for me in the next two months but I will try and get as much blogging done as I can.

My goal was this year is 150 books, even thought it might fall short. My personal life might become even more busy this years.

I am also thankful for all the wonderful friends I have made here this year, Ali, Andrea, Heidi, Maja, Kim, Christy and anyone else I may have missed you know who you ladies are!

6 comments:

  1. Congrats on your blog turning one and on reaching your reading goals, that is just awesome Lily!!

    Here is to another year filled with lots of fantastic reads! *hugs*

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  2. Congrats on completing your challenge! 150 books is really something to be proud of. And I myself am trying very hard to download less from Netgalley and Edelweiss. Unfortunately, I'm rarely successful.
    Let's hope 2014 is even better, reading-wise. :)
    There's so much to look forward to.

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  3. Yay, you did reach your goal! Haha - yeah, I had to stop doing other challenges because I'm TERRIBLE at keeping track of that stuff. Hope next year is a great reading/blogging year. And I hope your personal issues get better.

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  4. Yay! Congratulations on making your goal. The GoodReads challenge is the only one I shoot for, everything else just falls by the wayside.

    I hope you have an excellent 2014!

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  5. Wahoo! Woot! you did fantastic Lily and it is always a blast making your goal ;)

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  6. Woot! I made 101 books, lol. Narrowly made it, but my blog turned one in November as well. :D

    ~Sophia @ Bookwyrming Thoughts

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