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Sorry for the flood of posts today, Lovelies! I just have so much I want to talk about with 2015!!! Last year for goal setting, I used a Top Ten Tuesday post .  I'll recap each goal and tell you if I met them or not! 1. Comment on 5 blogs a week. Fail.  I did okay for the first six months or so, but I petered out. I still try to keep commenting or at least looking at 5 blogs a week! But this will definitely be a 2016 Redo. 2. Get better at design. Ehhhhh. I don't know if I really met this goal, but I worked on it! So another 2016 Redo.  3. Write one review post and one discussion post a week. Fail. I definitely didn't come close to hitting this one. I think for 2016 I'm going to do One Review Post a Week and One Discussion Post a Month.  4. Finish any Dangling Series left from this year. Fail. I basically went the wrong direction with this one. So for 2016 Finish half of the series I have on my current "seriesly-finish-the-series" shelf. For those ...

Yes, another survey. I love them so much! And last year Andi and Brittany put this one together but I didn't participate. So this year, I'm giving it a shot! Number of books read… 132 Under 250 pages (not including novellas): 47 Between 400-449 pages: 8 Between 450-499 pages: 3 Over 500 pages: 17 Over 1000 pages: 0 Number of… Audiobooks: 0 Re-reads: 21 DNFs (did not finish): 2 Number of books rated… Five Stars: 40 One/Two Stars: 22  Number of authors met in 2015: 6 Number of book events attended in 2015: 5 Number of books you read in one day: 2 Number of books that made you cry: 17 Number of 2016 books you have on pre-order: 0 (But will eventually do 2 at least) Book read furthest away from home (vacation reads?): (At my parent's house) The Amber Spyglass, The Viscount's Christmas Temptation Book that took you the longest to read: The Shadow Cabinet ( Sorry Maureen!) Book that you personally connected with the most: Aristotle a...

                                                              Jamie at The Perpetual Page-Turner  is the absolute coolest and puts together this survey every year. It was one of the first major things I did back when I started this blog in 2013, so this is my 3rd time completing this survey this year!! I love taking the time to look back on all the amazing books I read and how they affected me and my perception of life.  So here's to another great year of reading in 2015 and to a great year of reading in 2016.   Also all the images are Jamie's as well -- she's seriously so cool.  Note: The survey is for books you read throughout the year, no matter when they were published, and is not limited to just books that came out in 2015!! Number Of Books You Read: 132 Number of Re-Reads: 21 Genre You Rea...

Hello Lovelies!! Perhaps you remember at the beginning of 2015 this little graphic going around the internet (or I posted about it here on my blog):  Well I didn't quite finish the list, but here's what I read for each category. 1.  A book with more than 500 pages : The Diviners by Libba Bray 2.  A classic romance : Persuasion by Jane Austen 3.  A book that became a movie : The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (READ THE BOOK SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE MOVIE) 4.  A book published this year : Fairest by Marissa Meyer 5.  A book with a number in the title : Four Seconds to Lose by K.A. Tucker 6.  A book written by someone under 30 : Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas 7.  A book with nonhuman characters : Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo 8.  A funny book : Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman 9.  A book by a female author : The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma 10.   A mystery or thrille r: Charlie, Presume...