Bookmark Lit Bulletin | December 2017 + End of Year

The Bookmark Lit Bulletin was created to wrap up each month and prepare for the next. I share my 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. I recently split out my personal posts into the Lauren Lately feature, so this is a bit shorter!

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As usual I wish I could go back in time to the holiday season again! ? I read so many cute holiday books and novellas in December that I would have loved to continue into January. They’re so easy and cozy to read. Anyways, I easily met my goal with plenty of time to spare and stopped myself when I hit exactly 150 books for my goal. I don’t like going over unless it’s to a rounder number, like 155 or 160. I feel weird about reading like 151 or 152 books, which are numbers I was likely to hit. So, it was nice to have some wiggle room to fill out the end of year surveys early!

Yearly Wrap-Up of Statistics

I wanted to keep these graphs in a scroll box because they get a little intense and fill so much space. If you’re curious about my bookish breakdown for 2017, take a look below!

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Average rating for books read in December: 3.75 stars

Highlights & Lowlights

This month’s books:

Year-Long

Contemporary Romance Challenge

6 this month | 67 read total | 670% complete

Flights of Fantasy Challenge

4 this month | 30 read total | 100% complete

Rock My TBR Challenge

1 this month | 16 read total | 107% complete

Series Enders Challenge

2 this month | 18 read total | 180% complete

Winter Bingo Challenge

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Book Reviews

• [4 Dec] Kissing Max Holden by Katy Upperman ★★★★½
• [4 Dec] Follow Me by Sara Shepard ★★★★
• [13 Dec] The Cruel Prince by Holly Black ★★★★★
• [15 Dec] My New Crush Gave to Me by Shani Petroff ★★½
• [15 Dec] Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand ★★★
• [18 Dec] Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler ★★★
• [24 Dec] We'll Always Have Christmas by Jenny Hale ★★★½
• [24 Dec] The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand ★★★★½

Discussions, Memes, and More

• [1 Dec] Bookmark Lit Bulletin | November 2017
• [5 Dec] Top Ten Tuesdays #160: Settings
• [7 Dec] Recent Read-Bait: Wishes and Travel Meet Cutes
• [8 Dec] Holiday Movie Roundup: Reviews/Recs
• [11 Dec] Unreleased Book Cover Love
• [12 Dec] Top Ten Tuesdays #161: Favorites of 2017
• [14 Dec] Lauren Lately | December 2017
• [19 Dec] Top Ten Tuesdays #162: Santa
• [20 Dec] Holiday Movie Roundup: Reviews/Recs (2)
• [21 Dec] 2018 Resolutions and Challenge Sign-Up
• [25 Dec] Holiday Movie Roundup: Reviews/Recs (3)
• [26 Dec] Top Ten Tuesdays #163: Anticipated
• [28 Dec] January TBR + Winter Bingo
• [30 Dec] 2017 End of Year and Statistics Surveys

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Breakdown:  5 bought  |  0 borrowed  | 4 free/gifted |  6 for review 

Physical ARC from publisher: Reign the Earth by Gaughen

From pub via Netgalley: No Filter by Collins, Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy,
Chemistry Lessons by Goldstein, Surprise Me by Kinsella, The Upside of Falling Down by Crane

Kindle books: My New Crush Gave to Me by Petroff, Mean Girls by Ostow

Physical books: Foolish Hearts by Mills, Trust Me I’m Trouble by Summer, Caraval by Garber

My TBTB Secret Santa package was AWESOME. Joli sent a package to me, which is so good because I previously sent HER a package. You can clearly see all of my fave candies and fandom items, but there are definitely some great books too: The Bakersville Dozen by McBride, The Hate U Give by Thomas, The Extraordinary Secrets of April May & June by Benway, and Sex Object by Valenti

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✨ Check out my most recent personal life wrap-up HERE ✨

Life Happenings | Media Addictions | Goals | Favorites | Life Ahead

  
The Disaster Artists | Downtown Christmas | Dog Training | Christmas cookies

   
Dinner with my bests | Chris’s family tree | Panthers in the playoffs | Exploring kitty

Top Blog Posts Coming Up

101 in 1001 | I’m doing the Day Zero Project, which includes coming up with 101 goals to complete in 1001 days. I’ll be sharing my list on the blog and updating yearly throughout the project.

Failures and Lessons of 2017 | Reflecting on the previous year continues! I wanted to think about some of the issues (and successes) I had while reading and blogging this past year.

2018 Planners | I’ve talked about it quite a bit so far, but I’ll be doing a deeper dive into my new planner life for this year. I am super excited to get going on both of them!

If We Were Having Coffee | I always enjoy when other bloggers post these, so I’ll be taking part for one of my sadder months of the year (I miss Christmas!!).

Seasonal Book Club | I did a post a long time ago about some books I’d pick if I had a “seasonal” book club, where the members pick books to match each month or season. I drew up another one of these with some updated selections!

Low-Rated Books I Loved | I saw this post in a few places (you can check the post when it comes for the credit because I don’t remember!) and decided to do the same roundup. Low-rated books on Goodreads that I actually really liked!

Top Books on the TBR

Check out my January TBR post! ?

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How was your December?
Anything good planned for January?

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