The Bookmark Lit Bulletin was created to wrap up each month and prepare for the next. I share my life happenings, book haul, books I read and reviewed, posts I shared, challenge updates, and more from the previous month. I also let you know what may be coming up on the blog in the coming month. You can read past bulletins here and learn more about the feature here.
Special things in this month’s bulletin:
(Links will jump to their section on this long-ass post!)
- 2015 Wrap-Up | stats, breakdowns, favorites, numbers, etc.
- December 2015 Wrap-Up | the standard BL Bulletin stuff
- Countdown Survey | hosted by Novel Ink, counting down faves
For some more 2015 wrap-up posts, you can see my End of Year Survey and Statistics Survey!
180 books completed in 2015
including 11 rereads
plus 4 marked did-not-finish
3.99 average book rating
60,283 pages read in 2015
Average of 167 pages read per day
Average of 15 books read per month
Average of 5,024 pages read per month
5 stars – 26 books – 14.4%
4.5 stars – 41 books – 22.8%
4 stars – 53 books – 29.4%
3.5 stars – 31 books – 17.2%
3 stars – 15 books – 8.3%
2.5 stars – 8 books – 4.4%
2 stars – 4 books – 2.2%
No books rated under 2 stars!
Young Adult – 151 books – 83.9%
Adult – 18 books – 10%
New Adult – 12 books – 6.7%
Middle Grade – 2 books – 1.1%
Contemporary – 93 books – 51.7%
Mystery/Thriller – 21 books – 11.7%
Fantasy – 18 books – 10%
New Adult – 10 books – 5.6%
Retelling – 9 books – 5%
General/Misc. – 7 books – 3.9%
Paranormal – 6 books – 3.3%
Nonfiction/Memoir – 6 books – 3.3%
Graphic Novel – 6 books – 3.3%
Dystopia – 3 books – 1.7%
Science Fiction – 2 books – 1.1%
Literary Fiction – 1 book – 0.6%
Women’s Studies – 1 book – 06%
Paperback – 33 books – 18.3%
Hardcover – 27 books – 15%
eBook – 26 books – 14.4%
ARC – 26 books – 14.4%
Mixed Formats – 22 books – 12.2%
Audiobooks – 18 books – 10%
eARC – 17 books – 9.4%
Novella – 9 books – 5%
Graphic Novel – 5 books – 2.8%
Standalone – 94 books – 52.2%
Series-Starter – 36 books – 20%
Middle of Series – 30 books – 16.3%
Series-Ender – 16 books – 8.9%
Novella/Prequel – 7 books – 3.8%
Female – 169 books – 93.9%
Male – 13 books – 7.2%
Both – 1 book – 0.6%
For a full list of challenges and more specific goals, check here!
105 Challenge – Completed
Goal: Read 105 books based on the prompts I selected ahead of time.
I can’t believe I finished this one. Honestly, I expected to bail on it… but when I started analyzing the kinds of books I had left, it motivated me to finish up!
14 new releases
- The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
- Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
- Emmy & Oliver – Robin Benway
- Even When You Lie to Me – Jessica Alcott
- When – Victoria Laurie
- Play On – Michelle Smith
- All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
- The Pretty App – Katie Sise
- Kissing in America – Margo Rabb
- All We Have Is Now – Lisa Schroeder
- Jesse’s Girl – Miranda Kenneally
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- The Revenge Playbook – Rachael Allen
- Signs Point to Yes – Sandy Hall
13 YA contemporary
- Meant to Be – Lauren Morrill
- This Is What Happy Looks Like – Jennifer E. Smith
- The Boyfriend App – Katie Sise
- The Disenchantments – Nina LaCour
- Second Helpings – Megan McCafferty
- Charmed Thirds – Megan McCafferty
- Saint Anything – Sarah Dessen
- Fourth Comings – Megan McCafferty
- Perfect Fifths – Megan McCafferty
- PS I Still Love You – Jenny Han
- Cut Both Ways – Carrie Mesrobian
- Stealing Parker – Miranda Kenneally
- Racing Savannah – Miranda Kenneally
12 debuts
- My Last Kiss – Bethany Neal
- Tease – Amanda Maciel
- The Falconer – Elizabeth May
- The One Thing – Marci Lyn Curtis
- The One That Got Away – Bethany Chase
- Even in Paradise – Chelsey Philpot
- Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon
- Rules for 50/50 Chances – Kate McGovern
- The Night We Said Yes – Lauren Gibaldi
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- My Life Next Door – Huntley Fitzpatrick
- Nantucket Blue – Leila Howland
11 from authors previously read
- The DUFF – Kody Keplinger
- Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- Landline – Rainbow Rowell
- Complete Nothing – Kieran Scott
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- Just One Year – Gayle Forman
- Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
10 new adult
- All Lined Up – Cora Carmack
- All Broke Down -Cora Carmack
- Losing It – Cora Carmack
- All Played Out – Cora Carmack
- The Deal – Elle Kennedy
- Last Will and Testament – Dahlia Adler
- Call Me, Maybe – Ellie Cahill
- The Mistake – Elle Kennedy
- Faking It – Cora Carmack
- Snowed Over – Angie Stanton
9 ARCs
- Perfect Couple – Jennifer Echols
- All Fall Down – Ally Carter
- The Start of Me and You – Emery Lord
- Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
- Promposal – Rhonda Helms
- When Joss Met Matt – Ellie Cahill
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
- Things We Know by Heart – Jessi Kirby
- 99 Days – Katie Cotungo
8 already owned on Kindle
- On the Fence – Kasie West
- Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult
- Behind the Scenes – Dahlia Adler
- Cress – Marissa Meyer
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- I Am Princess X – Cherie Priest
- Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Jennifer E. Smith
7 series-starters
- Get Even – Gretchen McNeil
- Just One Day – Gayle Forman
- Sloppy Firsts – Megan McCafferty
- These Broken Stars – Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
- The Program – Suzanne Young
- Only Everything – Kieran Scott
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
6 nonfiction (memoir, humor, etc.)
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
- Full Frontal Feminism – Jessica Valenti
- The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero
- Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
- The Internet is a Playground – David Thorne
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
5 time-bending/parallel universe
- Pivot Point – Kasie West
- Split Second – Kasie West
- Maybe in Another Life – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Resonance – Erica O’Rourke
- Parallel – Lauren Miller
4 rereads (not done exclusively via audio)
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chobsky
3 books owned before college
- Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
- Stuff White People Like – Christian Lander
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
2 books with pink covers
- Something True – Kieran Scott
- The Good Girls – Sara Shepard
1 book out of my “comfort zone”
- Nowhere But Home – Liza Palmer
Reread Challenge – Not Completed
Goal: Reread the 17 books I selected ahead of time.
(Harry Potter series, John Green’s books, a few by Sarah Dessen, etc.)
I was able to finish over half of the AMOUNT of books needed, but didn’t focus on the books I selected themselves. It’s alright. This was the ONEEE challenge I didn’t finish!
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet Fire – JK Rowling
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- HP Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
- HP Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chobsky
Library Challenge – Completed
Goal: Read 28 or more books checked out from the library.
I met this goal exactly, with being able to read 28 library books. I almost squeezed in another one to “exceed” my goal, but decided to hold off until 2016.
- Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
- The Secrets of Lily Graves – Sarah S
- My Last Kiss – Bethany Neal
- This Is What Happy Looks Like – Jennifer E. Smith
- Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
- Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
- The Falconer – Elizabeth May
- All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
- The Disenchantments – Nina LaCour
- Sloppy Firsts – Megan McCafferty
- Second Helpings – Megan McCafferty
- Charmed Thirds – Megan McCafferty
- Fourth Comings – Megan McCafferty
- Perfect Fifths – Megan McCafferty
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger
- Where the Stars Still Shine – Trish Doller
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- The Night We Said Yes – Lauren Gibaldi
- Resonance – Erica O’Rourke
- The Remedy – Suzanne Young
- The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly – Stephanie Oakes
- Magnolia – Kristi Cook
- A Madness so Discreet – Mindy McGinnis
- I’ll Give You the Sun – Jandy Nelson
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Jennifer E. Smith
TBR Pile Challenge – Exceeded
Goal: Read one “backlist” book per month, totalling 12 books.
Yeah…so I exceeded this. Why did I think 12 would be difficult? I probably should have only included books I technically owned already, but I ended up going with TBR backlist titles in general.
- The DUFF – Kody Keplinger
- Meant to Be – Lauren Morrill
- Just One Day – Gayle Forman
- Nowhere But Home – Liza Palmer
- The Boyfriend App – Katie Sise
- The Disenchantments – Nina LaCour
- Sloppy Firsts – Megan McCafferty
- Second Helpings – Megan McCafferty
- These Broken Stars – Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
- Charmed Thirds – Megan McCafferty
- Fourth Comings – Megan McCafferty
- Perfect Fifths – Megan McCafferty
- Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult
- The Program – Suzanne Young
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Stealing Parker – Miranda Kenneally
- Things I Can’t Forget – Miranda Kenneally
- Racing Savannah – Miranda Kenneally
- Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
- Full Frontal Feminism – Jessica Valenti
- Where the Stars Still Shine – Trish Doller
- The Lying Game – Sara Shepard
- Never Have I Ever – Sara Shepard
- Two Truths and Lie – Sara Shepard
- Hide and Seek – Sara Shepard
- Cross My Heart, Hope to Die – Sara Shepard
- Seven Minutes in Heaven – Sara Shepard
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- Nantucket Blue – Leila Howland
- How to be Bad – 3 authors
- Two-Way Street – Lauren Barnholdt
- Scarlet – Marissa Meyer
- The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero
- Hollywood is like High School with Money – Zoey Dean
- Out of Sight, Out of Time – Ally Carter
- United We Spy – Ally Carter
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta
- Icing on the Lake – Catherine Clark
- The Internet is a Playground – David Thorne
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Jennifer E. Smith
- Stuff White People Like – Christian Lander
- Faking It – Cora Carmack
- Decked with Holly – Marni Bates
- Snowed Over – Angie Stanton
Audiobook Challenge – Exceeded
Goal: Reach the “my precious” level of audiobook listening (35 or more books).
WOO. This was a close one. I definitely hit a snag during November when I got addicted to podcasts for a few weeks, but I finished strong.
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
- Get Even – Gretchen McNeil
- Losing It – Cora Carmack
- Landline – Rainbow Rowell
- Tease – Amanda Maciel
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet Fire – JK Rowling
- When – Victoria Laurie
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- Saint Anything – Sarah Dessen
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Get Dirty – Gretchen McNeil
- The Lying Game – Sara Shepard
- Never Have I Ever – Sara Shepard
- Two Truths and Lie – Sara Shepard
- Hide and Seek – Sara Shepard
- Cross My Heart, Hope to Die – Sara Shepard
- Seven Minutes in Heaven – Sara Shepard
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- Two-Way Street – Lauren Barnholdt
- The Boy Most Likely To – Huntley Fitzpatrick
- HP Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
- Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
- A Madness so Discreet – Mindy McGinnis
- The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
- Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
- Faking It – Cora Carmack
(Fairytale) Retelling Challenge – Completed
Goal: Reach the “big bad wolf” level by reading 10-15 retellings and/or fairy tales.
I knew that this goal would be manageable because I planned to read all of the Lunar Chronicles books this year, but it was still a bit close. Happy to finish though!
- Princess of Thorns – Stacey Jay
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
- Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Mirrored – Alex Flinn
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- Scarlet – Marissa Meyer
- Cress – Marissa Meyer
- Winter – Marissa Meyer
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
- Penny Dora 1 – Michael Stock
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
Flights of Fantasy Challenge – Exceeded
Goal: Read 20 fantasy books in 2015.
I included the Lunar Chronicles books because they have fantasy elements, but they are really sci-fi retellings at their core. Even if I didn’t include them, I would have met my goal! Fantasy was kind of subjective for me with this one.
- Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- Princess of Thorns – Stacey Jay
- The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
- Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet Fire – JK Rowling
- Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
- The Falconer – Elizabeth May
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- HP Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
- Scarlet – Marissa Meyer
- Truthwitch – Susan Dennard
- Cress – Marissa Meyer
- Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
- Winter – Marissa Meyer
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
- Penny Dora 1 – Michael Stock
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
For more details on my goals and resolutions from the beginning of 2015, you can find that here! I also updated my progress here and here throughout the year. I mostly passed all of my goals! I wouldn’t consider any of them to be a total fail.
Find a reading/blogging organizational method that works and doesn’t pressure me | MOSTLY PASS
Complete my Goodreads Challenge (again), except this time with many more books | PASS
Expand my horizons and follow my mood reading tendencies | SEMI-PASS
Only request review books that I’ve been desperate for | MOSTLY PASS
Participate in memes and monthly wrap-ups whenever I want | PASS
Write more top 10 lists and recommendation lists | SEMI-PASS
Utilize the library like nobody’s business | SEMI-PASS
Interact more with other bloggers | MOSTLY PASS
Write more original discussion posts | PASS
DNF more books | PASS
15 books read this month
Physical: 3 | eBook: 7
eARC: 2 | ARC: 0
Audio: 2 | Mixed: 1
180 books read this year
out of my 175 goal
103% completed
7 books ahead of schedule
26 blog posts this month
13 books reviewed
13 other blog posts
1 challenge participation
Great month! I was really motivated to finish up my challenges (which you can see results of at the top!) so that helped. I also read a few quick Christmas books in the middle there. Solid end of 2015!
Average rating for books read in December: 3.91 stars
Highlights of the best and worst…
Best of the Best | Pleasantly Surprised | Disappointed
All of the books read this month:
- [4 Dec] First & Then by Emma Mills ★★★★½
- [6 Dec] I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson ★★★
- [7 Dec] Icing on the Lake by Catherine Clark ★★½
- [9 Dec] The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de La Cruz ★★★
- [11 Dec] Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses by Jenny Hale ★★★★½
- [13 Dec] Last Will and Testament by Dahlia Adler ★★★★
- [16 Dec] Christmas at Lilac Cottage by Holly Martin ★★★½
- [18 Dec] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by ★★★★★
- [20 Dec] Love Like Crazy by Megan Squires ★★★
- [20 Dec] Hollywood is Like High School With Money by Zoey Dean ★★★★
- [23 Dec] Decked with Holly by Marni Bates ★★★½
- [24 Dec] Truthwitch by Susan Dennard ★★★★
- [30 Dec] Snowed Over by Angie Stanton ★★★½
Secret Sister Project
As usual, my Secret Sister killed it. This was a super cute Christmassy package! That gingerbread-patterned fabric across the bottom is an apron that she made herself! (HOW DO YOU DO IT?!) She included a souvenir bookmark from Ireland, which was just too cool. I got a Christmas countdown mug with my favorite hot chocolate mix. She also included candy and a cookie cutter shaped like a stocking. I’m really excited for the books she sent; they’ve been on my wishlist for a long time: Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Being Sloane Jacobs. There was also nail polish, washi tape, washi tape bookmarks (!!!), and excellent socks! Amazing as always.
Broke & Bookish Secret Santa
Oh man this was such a great package! My Secret Santa was KATIE from The Book Sphere and she did such a great job. I got a Panthers mug and SO many hot chocolate supplies, including peppermint stir sticks and marshmallow bits to shake in. She also gave socks (excellent and comfy AF) and chocolate. Three books from my wishlist were also included: The Mediator, Unremembered, and Daughter of Smoke and Bone. So generous and awesome!
Books acquired
E-ARCS /// For blog tours: Arrows by Melissa Gorzelanczyk, Reign of Shadows by Sophie Jordan | For review: Linny’s Sweet Dream List by Susan Schild, Elementals by Michelle Madow
Purchased /// From Strand in NYC: Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Loop by Karen Akins, Nantucket Red by Leila Howland | From Barnes & Noble on sale: The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty | From Amazon with Christmas gift card: Here’s Looking At You by Mhairi McFarlane
Borrowed /// From the library: The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins, The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, See How They Run by Ally Carter
Gifted /// From Christmas: Lola Carlyle’s 12-Step Romance by Danielle Younge-Ullman, The Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Received from publisher /// For a blog tour: The Imposter Queen by Sarah Fine
Top Ten Tuesdays
2016 Debuts I’m Looking Forward to
New-to-Me Authors from This Year
Best Books I Read in 2015
Books for Santa to Bring Me
Anticipated 2016 Releases
Inside & Out
Alexa from Alexa Loves Books
Krystianna from Downright Dystopian
Discussions and Tags
Books with Unique Storytelling Styles
Cover Love Part II
Help Me Deal with HYPE!
Christmas Songs Book Tag
Wrap-Ups and Sign-Ups
Reading Recap & December TBR
2016 Challenge Sign-Ups
End of Year Book Survey
December was another busy month for us. We finishing putting up Christmas decorations and went out to get our Christmas tree. The second week of the month featured a very sad funeral for a close family friend. He was only a few years older than me
and it just hit me harder than expected. Amidst all of that, my dad had a company Christmas party to attend with my stepmom. I “watched” my sister that night for them because she doesn’t like being home alone at night, even though she’s 14 years old. Chris and I took my sister to the Lego store and out for dinner that night, then her and I watched The Descendents. She made me read the book so obviously I had to watch the movie, which technically comes after the book chronologically. We had our company holiday lunch the following week, which was fairly fun. The food was decent and it was nice to leave the office for a few hours. We headed to Providence for my friend’s birthday on the 19th, and that was so much fun. We all have kind of reached the point where we would rather spend time together playing games and sleeping over, than going out to the bar to celebrate. THEN THERE WAS
CHRISTMAS WEEK! My boss decided to take my coworker and I out for lunch because we literally had no work to do in the few days before Christmas. Christmas Eve involved going to Chris’s parents’ house for a few hours, then my aunt’s house. It was fun to see our families, exchange gifts, and eat food. Chris’s sister had to work on Christmas day so w
e got lucky and only had two houses to visit that day. We ended up sleeping late, being lazy, exchanging gifts with each other, and then going to my Nana’s house for Christmas. We had some food and opened presents with my mom’s side of the family. Afterwards, we went to my Dad’s house for presents. We really got spoiled this year! The week following Christmas was pretty busy too. We decided to
take a day off and go to New York City for the day, but we regretted that choice! It was crowded, we did almost NOTHING we wanted to do, and we got home late. Overall, it was a lame day that we wish we didn’t do. The next night, we went to a Harlem Globetrotters game! It was so fun; Chris had never seen them before. For New Years, we went to my friend’s house to hang out, eat food, and watch the ball drop. We kept it simple again!
THIS SHOW MAN. Chris has been on a major Marvel kick lately (and that’s trickled down to me, of course). We decided to start Jessica Jones after seeing sooo many people talk about it. It’s SO GOOD. We binged quite a few episodes in a row because we really wanted something that was genuinely binge-worthy. We’ve been trying to pace ourselves but it’s hard.
I love Aziz Ansari and heard even more wonderful things about Master of None. We’ve only watched the first couple of episodes because we really want to savor this one. It’s so funny, as expected. I can’t wait to keep going.
We didn’t watch as many holiday movies as I expected this year, but we did hit all of the basics. My favorite of all is The Santa Clause. It was fantastic as always. I also watched A Christmas Story for the first time in my life (!!!) this year and it was way better than I thought. Some other holiday movies we watched: The Year Without a Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Elf, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Year-Long
Full update of my year-long challenges is above!
Seasonal
Lose Time RRReading | I completed this challenge! Woooo.| More info/books
Back to School Bingo | December, January, February | More info/books
I’m not a huge fan of resolutions because time is made-up. Days and years and minutes help us keep track of things, but I think they’re too arbitrary to base things on. The “new year” doesn’t signify much for me. I will usually make goals for the year and use it as a general idea of timing, but I don’t subscribe to a lot of the same thoughts on it all. Anyways, I plan to R-E-L-A-X in January. I’m guessing we’ll get plenty of snow, which usually sucks. As of right now, we have literally zero plans this month. Thank you world.
You’ll see the usual Top Ten Tuesdays on here, as well as two new faces for Inside & Out. I kicked off the month with my Statistics Survey and obviously this lovely BL Bulletin is happening right now, including year-end wrapping up. I have TWO wonderful posts in my Organization Series coming up – Planners (how I use them now) and Reading Notebook(s). I’m on a blog tour for The Imposter Queen and will be featuring a Cover Colors post for it! I’m honestly thrilled with how it came out, so I hope you all enjoy it! The month has a lot of reviews because I wanted to TRY to start fairly fresh for the year… didn’t really happen though. I may have a Five on Friday, but it depends on how fun my life is for the first half of the month 😉 If not, it’ll be a Currently post or Reading Recap.
Hosted by Novel Ink! | “We are going to countdown from 10 – 1 with topics listed for each number. Whatever the number is, that’s how many things you have to list for that topic. Example: 10 – Books on your wishlist, so I would name ten books that’s on my wishlist…see?? SIMPLE.”
WOW!! What a year you’ve had, lady!! So much awesomeness!! I’m really impressed with how well you did on your challenges. Some day I’ll learn how to do charts like that to show statistics. I stare at them adoringly every year when other bloggers use them, but I’m just totally clueless on how to (1) make the charts, and (2) find the criteria to enter into it. 🙁 Have a wonderful weekend! ♥
LOL I feel your pain! I use Crini’s spreadsheet (let me know if you want me send you a link!) and it breaks everything down for you if you track your books throughout the year. Then I make the charts in powerpoint 🙂
Oh, awesome! I’d love to see this spreadsheet you’re talking about! I was secretly hoping Goodreads somehow kept track of this for us. Dammit. LOL!!
I love that you did your stats with pie charts! I love looking at everyone’s 2015 wrap-up posts. Your Christmas tree looked very pretty. I hope you have a wonderful bookish 2016.
Thank you 😀 I hope the same for you!
Looks like you did a great job with your challenges and your goals. I love your pie charts! I am also looking forward to Unexpected Everything and Stars Above, coming out in 2016. I love both Morgan Matson and Marissa Meyer!
Thank you! 🙂
I love reading through all of your stats! Did you manually go through and calculate them to make the pie charts, or is there a way that UBB tells you based on the reviews you posted?
I used Crini’s spreadsheet, which broke everything down for me! Then I made the charts.