I read/reread 227 books in 2015. That's down from 323 books in 2014, which was a personal best.
Here were my reading goals for 2015 and how I did meeting them:
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I will be participating in several of the AAR reading challenges again this year.
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I did 9 challenges (7 for books and 2 for novellas) for a total of 105 books and 30 novellas.
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I’ve also decided I will reread the entire Psy/Changeling series by Nalini Singh again. I plan to start that March 1st giving me 13 weeks before Shards of Hope releases to reread all 13 books, 6 novellas, and 24 (maybe more by then) short stories/deleted scenes.
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I did this and plan to reread the entire series again in 2016.
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My other plan is go through my existing TBR and pick out 10 “must read” books/series for 2015. This doesn’t include any of the new releases for the year I am eagerly awaiting. I’m going to make it a mix of new-to-me authors and books which have languished in my TBR for a year or more. I should be able to count them all in the various reading challenges so that will help me get them read. And I figure 10 is a totally reachable goal since I usually read at least that many books in a month.
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I ended up with 12 books on my must read list as I added a 4 book, multi-author series at the end, but didn’t want to take off any of the other books I’d already listed. Most have been in my TBR for a while.
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I did not read the 4 book multi-author series. I started book one a few times, but just couldn’t get into it. So the series is still in my TBR.
As for the other books, I read 7 of them. So 7 out of 12 isn’t too bad I guess. Though discounting the unread series, I read 7 out of 8. And that’s a better way for me to look at it, right?
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I also want to make a sizeable dent in my new-to-me series where I’ve purchased multiple books but not yet read any. Some of these will be part of my 10 Must Read list, but I really want to make an effort to get these various series at least started.
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This goal I was a total fail at. While I did read the first book in several new-to-me series, I also added a bunch more. I’m very bad at curbing the
need to read in order part of me, so when a book catches my eye and I discover it’s part of a series, I tend to buy them all. So bad! I’m not making this a goal for 2016. Maybe I will try again in 2017
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I added a seventh challenge as with it and a little moving around of some of the books I had slotted in the other challenges I was able to add 15 books by an author who has been an autobuy for me since 2000, but I have fallen very, very far behind on her books. This will get me almost all caught up.
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Success! The author in question was Karen Templeton and other than
Fortune’s Cinderella (which I plan to read as part of one of the AAR challenges this year) I am caught up. She’s been an autobuy for me since I discovered her in 2000. Even after getting my Sony, I continued to buy all of her books in print. But starting in 2005 her books somehow never quite made it to the top of my TBR pile. I read a few in 2010, a few more in 2011 and then 2013. But I had everything from April 2008 on of hers to read at the beginning of 2015. I managed to catch up on all 15 of her books I had planned to, including the new releases in 2015. I wasn’t able to fit
Fortune’s Cinderella into the various AAR challenges I had planned and though I could have squeezed it in at the end of the year, I decided just to save it for 2016.