The 2015 Bookish Resolutions Challenge hosted by A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives and Because Reading is Better Than Real Life.
Every month on the 30th I will be doing my recap of that month. You can check out my goal post here. I finished all my goals, beside the first one which I failed early already. So for the remaining few months we’ll see how much further I can get.
November Recap
Accept no more than 1 book with a deadlines each month.I failed this one in february already. Even though I fail this goal in the first few months I am doing better not accepting as many deadline books anymore.- Read at least 3 (cozy) mysteries. Made this goal as well! I got into the cozy mystery books this month and read 4 cozy mysteries and 2 mysteries so far this year. Below the books I read for this goal:
- Visions by Kelley Armstrong
- Deceptions (Cainsville #3) by Kelley Armstrong
- A Spark of Justice by J.D. Hawkins
- Pane and Suffering (A Webb’s Glass Shop Mystery #1) by Cheryl Hollon
- Flipped for Murder (Country Store Mysteries #1) by Maddie Day
- Death Crashes the Party (A Liv And Di In Dixie Mystery #1) by Vicky Fee
- Read at least 3 historical romances. Made it! I even read 6 historical romance so far and one DNF. Links to the books I read for this challenge are below:
- The Mine by John Heldt. It’s actually a bit of a crossover book with time travel and historical romance elements, but I thought the historical romance elements where prominent enough to count it as historical romance.
- In for a Penny by Rose Lerner, which was a lot of fun.
- Palace Secrets by Ravyn Rayne, which was okay and didn’t have much focus on the historical aspect.
- A Lady’s Guide to Skirting Scandal (The Lords of Worth #2.5) by Kelly Bowen, was fun and original and I’ll be reading more of this author her books.
- Immersed (The Clockwork Siren #1) by Katie Hayoz, this was one was very enjoyable. Great historical setting!
- Submerged (The Clockwork Siren #2) by Katie Hayoz, enjoyed this one, but the first book was better.
- Read at least 20 review books this year. I read 71 review books so far this year, totally powned this goal! I keep adding books to the list as well though, so I am not really making a dent in my for review pile.
- Organize at least 30 tours with Lola’s Blog Tours. Yay reached this goal! 35 tours organized so far!
I have not been good at keeping up with my challenge goals, Lola. I think I need a challenge to keep up with monthly wrap-up posts 😀
You’re doing great, though 🙂
I actually dislike the monthly wrap-up posts as I am not making enough progress in a month to make them feel interesting, I much prefer the guarterly recaps I am doing for the new release challenge. So next years I am switching to quarterly recaps for all my challenges and then one recap posts for all my challenges. Might be a bit of a full post then, but I think that will work better than this.
Sounds like you are doing pretty good with yours. I only had one and that was to read 100 books this year. I’ve actually read more than that but I read a few anthologies and I count each anthology as one book so I have a few more to go.
Yes I am glad to be doing so well with all my goals, I did fail one challenge one of my goals for this one, but that’s okay. I usually count books in an anthologies also as seperate ones as long as they are also seperately available/ listed on goodreads.
Congrats on reaching so many of your goals! that’s fantastic. I graduate in December so I’m hoping to be able to do more with my own business (freelance publicity) in the new year. We’ll see haha. Good job with booking so many tours though!
-Lauren
I didn’t realize you had your own business as well. What kind of publicity do you do for authors?
It definitely was a good year for my business, I am hoping the next year will be even better.
You’ve done so well with your resolutions, Lola! You should really be proud of yourself and what you’ve accomplished. 🙂
Thanks Brandee! These recap posts definitely are a good way to realize how well I did with all these challenges.
Glad to see you stretching your reading to get in more cozies and historicals. Seeing this post reminds me that I need to do my end of the year challenge wrap-up post and how I did on my resolutions. It will be good on the one and ugly on the other. 😉
But there is next year….
I am really happy with how I did with those two new to me genres. I know for sure that these are two genres I’ll keep reading. I also failed a few challenges, but that’s okay. And indeed there is always next year.
Yay for accomplishing bookish goals! That’s awesome that you did so well with them, especially the blog tours! Believe it or not, when the year started, I didn’t have a GR account or know about book blogging, so I didn’t even think to make yearly bookish goals. But I did reach the GR goal I decided on after making an account 🙂
The blog tours one might be the one I am most happy about. It’s so awesome to see how many more tours I organized compared with last year and I hope that trend continues next year. That’s strange to imagine you didn’t even knew about blogging when the year started. You can always set some goals next year :). And reaching your goodreads goal is awesome! I am always happy when I reach my goodreads goal and set one every year.
woohoo its awesome that you have mostly been meeting your challenges. I have thought about joining some for next year
The sign-up post for next year is already live, it’s a fun challenge. I just scheduled my sign-up post for next year :). It’s fun to set your own goals and hope you reach them.