2015 Wrap-up
Favorite Books of the Year
- The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
- Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
- Fire by Kristin Cashore
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Saga Vol. 1-4
- First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
- Furiously Happy by Jenny Larson
Honorable Mentions: The HM category is reserved for rereads that I really loved.
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- Fables Series
Total Books Read – 117 books
Total Pages Read – 35,897 pages
I averaged 2908 pages per month. My lowest month was December with only 1769 pages. My highest month was April with 4544 pages. I hope to read 35,000 pages next year.
Book Rating Stats
- 5 stars — 45 books
- 4 stars — 40 books
- 3 stars — 30 books
- 2 stars —1 books
- 1 star — 0 books
- DNFs — 3
Special Projects/Features
Readathons —I completed 5 readathons this year. While I enjoy readathons, my life now just doesn't allow much time to do a readathon. Next year I won't be participating in any.
Bloggiesta in September —I enjoyed spending a weekend working on my blog. I completed a fair number of tasks and made progress on a few more. I'll definitely be participating next year.
Day Zero Project –- After restarting this project in early 2015, I've made decent progress on this large-scale project.
Quote Wednesday —An easy post that I now do biweekly.
Currently -- I like to sprinkle these in sometimes.
Music Monday —Always love my Music Monday posts.
Top Ten Tuesday — I didn't participate that much this year, but I occasionally do...
Fashion Friday —Love my Fashion Friday posts. They are a lot of fun to make.
Arthur Updates —Since Arthur is now 2 years old, I'm only doing these twice a year...
Thanks/Odds and Ends/Fun Videos —Definitely keeping this rotation next year. I helps change up the posts.
Reading Challenges
Here’s the final breakdown:
- Fantasy Project 4/5 80%
- Nonfiction Adventure 10/10 100%
- NPR Scifi and Fantasy 2/5 40%
- NPR Teen 5/5 100%
- Top 100 YA 4/5 80%
- 21st Century Women Authors 2/5 40%
- US of YA 0/5 0%
- Time Top 100 0/5 0%
- Rory Gilmore 2/5 40%
- 1001 Books 2/5 0%
- Anne Rice 0/5 0%
- Feminism 4/10 40%
- TBR Reduction 46/48 95.8%
- Mount TBR 36/36 100%
- Library 12/12 100%
- Ebooks 22/25 88%
- Read Your Freebies 12/12 100%
- A to Z 20/26 76.9%
- What’s in a Name 6/6 100%
- Picture Books 150/150 100%
- Seriously Series 9/10 90%
- Books to Movies 7/12 58.3%
- 52 Books in 52 Weeks 52/52 100%
- Fairy Tale 10/10 100%
- Dewey Decimal 10/10 100%
- Banned Books 0/5 0%
- Back to the Classics 6/10 60%
- New Author 15/15 100%
- Blogger Recommendations 1/10 10%
- Outlander 1/8 12.5%
- OLW Home 10/10 100%
Total: 12/31 challenges 38.7% done
Total: 458/533 slots 85.9% done
Overall Thoughts/Reflections/Musings/Ideas