Welcome to Litsy!

I read fewer books than the last couple of years due to life getting in the way, but still did well. I raised my goal twice and still beat it by 4 books. ☺️

Challenges Completed:
#LitsyAtoZ
#Booked2019

Incomplete Challenges:
#Nonfiction19 - I got away from filling out my card - 13 read
#Graphicnovel19 - only read 16
Reading Women Challenge - only read 12 of 24

A good mix of fiction and NF! #19in2019

Not a bad 2019 🙂

And my #Top19in2019- not published in 2019, but that I read- in left to right order:
All The Light We Cannot See
Sleeping Giants
The Possibility Dogs
The Killing Lessons
A Curious Beginning
Paper Ghosts
Sky In The Deep
The Elephant Whisperer
The Dream Daughter
Echo Park
Case Histories
The Black Order
Attachments
Liars‘ Paradox
Pet Semetary
Find Her
Landline
Our Last Night
Girls of Paper and Fire

Happy New Year! Here are my #Top19in2019 published in 2019; no real order other than L to R in image above:
A Book of Bones
The Unhoneymooners
Clover Blue
The Glittering Hour
The Chestnut Man
The Chain
Miracle Creek
The Whisper Man
Finding Dorothy
Marrow Charm
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
If You Want To Make God Laugh
I Owe You One
Crown of Feathers
The Perfect Wife
Lock Every Door
The Things She‘s Seen
The Reckless Oath We Made
The Editor

Pretty proud of how my 2019 went in regards to books

Here‘s my 2019. I was not great with the challenges, but got a lot of reading done!

I met my reading goal of 155 books, and also met my page goal of 50,000! #2019 #bringon2020

Yay!

41 if I'm not counting Audible Originals. I'd say it's not that bad 😃 Happy New Year lovely Littens! 🥂🎉

My goal was 60 books, and I ended up completing 71. So many great books in 2019! Here's to an even better 2020!

✌🏽 2019

It‘s actually 136 but this screen doesn‘t care 🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️😂

That was more books than I expected, but I think I‘ll do less books in 2020. Going to focus on knocking out some big books. #yearofthechunkster

Woo! Bring on 2020!

Hello friends! Happy New Year! I‘ve been so proud to finish 122 books this year (including one reread). I‘m excited for all the books to be read in 2020. #newyear #2020

Made it in the home stretch!

Not bad. My goal was 52. Definitely less reading compared to 2018 but I had to do some continuing ed courses for work and those took up a lot of reading time.

Well I did a thing... I read more than a book a day which is amazing. Can I do it again next year? #goodreads #goalmet

My #2019 according to #goodreads. I also was 5 books away from completing #litsyatoz2019

My Goodreads view of my reading year although one book missing off it as read 282 books.

Average rating of 4.1 - must have been a good reading year.

I actually just lost one fiction book for this year because I have had exactly zero time to read today, so I won‘t be finishing Hogfather before midnight. Oh well, that‘s 6 books for 2020 and it‘s still 2019 here!
#readinglog #2019 #HappyNewYear

I keep a list of the books I have read for each year in the notes section of my phone. I think this may be a record for me. 😃 I KNOW I would have not read this many without Litsy. 🥰 Happy New Year!!

A very successful year of reading 😮 it's mad when you look back at all the books you've read 📚📚📚 #myyearinbooks #2019

More #stats for this year. #2019stats

My favorites of this past year:

Are You Dave Gorman? By Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Word Nerd by Michael Powell
Speaking American by Josh Katz
The Room by Jonas Karlsson
Hits and Misses by Simon Rich
What In God's Name by Simon Rich
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
The Reliv Box & Other Stories by T.C. Boyle
Happy Cruelty Day by Bob Powers

It‘s time for some reflection! I made a comprehensive list of all my reading stats for this year, and I think it turned out pretty interesting. Go check it out: https://amysbookreviews.com/2019/12/26/2019-reading-stats/

2019 was a good reading year for me!

My stats for 2019 as of June 4. According to Goodreads, I‘m about 4 books ahead of schedule. I‘m planning on reading about 56 books this year.

This years #currentstats 39/150

Only 3 of these were physical books. The rest were all audiobooks, as it‘s been such a busy year with work. I need to get back into physical reading too. It can be much more relaxing.

I got this cool new planner because bullet journaling was being a bit too much for me while I was already so overwhelmed with grad school. I hope this helps. I was also just informed that January 2019-December 2020 is my Saturn Return time. I don‘t know if I believe in astrology but it would be a good explanation for why I‘m such a mess. (Also that‘s the exact dates and duration of my schooling. Coincidence? Probably.)

I have read a record breaking 41 books so far this year (thanks, influenza!), so I thought I'd have a look at how I'm doing on my current reading goals.

I've read 13 books from the combined 1001 books to read / Guardian 1000 books / plays I want to read list that's my current #LifetimeReadingPlan . ✔️
I've read 4 science fiction / speculative fiction books. ✔️
But so far I've failed to read any of the long novels I set for myself. 😱

Catching-up #hellothursday - thanks for the tags @Eggs and @TheReadingMermaid xoxo❤️

1 - I kickstarted 2019 with multiple goals—continue walking 3 days wk weather permitting (freezing rain today), eat healthier lost 6 lbs so far, and clear out stuff in the home I don‘t need
2 - A new job🤞🏻
3 - I don‘t have one for this year yet
4 - 👋🏻❤️

#HelloThursday
1. My eye healed and I can wear my contacts again.
2. 🤔🤔🤔🤷🏾‍♀️
3. “Be kind. Be weird. Be honest. Be brave. Stay up late. Read a lot. Learn everything you can. Love everything. Be fiercely loyal to yourself. Drink coffee. Go for long walks. Notice small, stunning moments of beauty. Never stop.
4. Hi Littens! 👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾

1. Life in general ❤
2. Holidays! ☀️✈🍹
3. You are as you are until you're not, and that's okay.
4. @RamsFan1963

#hellothursday @wanderinglynn

#️⃣ 50. But I might increase that if I‘m doing well by June!
🥂 Not food, but we always have Martinelli‘s at midnight.
🦸🏻‍♂️ I don‘t have one, but my husband would say Captain America and my mom would say Thor.
🎉 September
🖐🏽 High five to all you January b-days!

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. read at least 30 books.
2. black-eyed peas for luck + greens for wealth.
3. Superman!
4. August ♌️
5. HBD! 🙌🏻

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. To read at least 60 books
2. Not usually, but this year I did make blackeyed peas and cabbage.
3. Invincible, Atom Eve, Hellboy, Batman,...
4. June
5. Happy birthday, January babies!
#friyayintro @howjessreads

Day 2: #2019readinggoals

#anewchapter
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@vkois88

I‘m not planning any specific prompt based challenges this year, at least for now. I‘m going to try to read more of the books I already own (average of at least 2 a month) with an unofficial #MtTBR, continue reading books on the #1001books list, and keep up with my #CovertoCover postal book club. I also hope to keep reading with #LitsyBookClub and various readalongs. To start the year, those include #YearofTolkien and #Genji.

#2019ReadingGoals

Signed up for #booked2019 😊📚 @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage

This year I‘m attempting 175 books, which I should be able to accomplish since I read 180 last year. I‘m also attempting to read solely from my TBR bookshelf or the library. Trying to limit book purchases is so difficult! I‘ve already got 21 books down for this year so I‘m going to get ahead before I go back to school!

#2019readinggoals #anewchapter @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#2019ReadingGoals
🎯 Read 200 Books
🎯 Read 85,000 Pages
🎯 Read 25 Chunksters (600+ Pages)
🎯 Complete #CenturyOfBooks Challenge (Read a book published every year from 1920 -2019)
🎯 Complete #LitsyAtoZ using author names, & read in audiobook format
🎯 Get 25 #Seriesuptodate
🎯 Get 15 #SeriesCompleted
🎯Take Part in as many buddy reads and readathons as I can.

Most important of all have great fun reading and interacting with my Litten friends.

I‘m ready for you 2019.

#ReadingChallenge2019 #GoodreadsChallenge #BookBingo2019 #ReadHarder #40in2019TBR

Here is my January TBR.
Definitely going to read: The iron king, flame and heist, ten girls to watch, the immortalists and eragon.

Dumplin, spying in heels, wisdom and folly, and grim lovelies are all maybes.

ACOWAR and HP are both rereads.
#tbr #january2019