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Friday, January 22, 2021
The Ryan White Story by Ryan White
Friday, January 15, 2021
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
Unfortunately, I haven't had a five star read yet this year so I'm switching it up and doing #FavoritesFriday so I can share one of my favorites with you! (Definitely not my only favorite. You wouldn't choose a favorite child would you?!)
Saturday, January 9, 2021
2021 Book-ish Goals
Many readers that we know create reading goals for the year. For some, that may be to reach a certain number of books finished. Others want to tackle their huge TBR shelf. Some try to complete different challenges like Book Challenge by Erin, the POPSugar Reading Challenge, Book of the Month's new challenge, reading a book with a title for each letter of the alphabet....The list goes on.
We also like to set some goals and we'd like to share them with you to try to help keep ourselves accountable!
Jayme's 2021 Book-ish Goals
1. Complete 125 books.
2. Review all ARCs before publication date. (I know my current ARC was just published, but beyond this one this will be my goal.)
2a. Read/Review at least one ARC a month.
3. Read at least 2 of my Book of the Month books per month.
4. Read at least 5 classic novels (This was a goal last year and I only read one.)
5. Be more intentional with representation in my reads & using my tracker.
5a. Have 15% of my reads be written by male authors. (Last year = 12%)
5b. Have 20% of my reads be written by BIPOC authors. (Last year = 13%)
5c. Keep better track of my successful recommendation sources & successful publishers.
I'm also trying a few reading challenges this year - Book Challenge by Erin, POPSugar Reading Challenge 2021, and Book of the Month (which should be covered with #3).
Meghan's 2021 Book-ish Goals
1. Complete 100 books
2. Complete 12 Audiobooks
3. Keep up-to-date on my tracker
4. Read one BOTM book a month
5. Read 25 of my personal backlist bought before this year.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
The Best, The Worst, The Unexpected...Part 2
Saturday, January 2, 2021
The Best, The Worst, The Unexpected...Part 1
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
November Reading Round-Up
Y'know, it's a little funny how shocked we are each and every month when it's time to post one of these. Here's a look at the books we loved, didn't love, read, rated, or DNF'd this month!
What I Rated Them:
The Friend Zone ☕☕☕☕.25
Least Favorite Read:
Sabotage
DNF?:
None this month! I even went back to a previous DNF and am now reading!
Rolling over to next month:
Craigslist Confessional
Favorite Read: Ties that Tether
Least Favorite Read: I dont think there were any that I didnt like this month.
Carrying Over to Next Month:
Johnny Cash the Life (I did actually read some of this book in November!)
Beach Read
Friday, November 13, 2020
Five Star Friday - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
This week's Five Star read was read by Jay!
Synopsis from Goodreads: The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.
Backlist? Yes. Published May 2, 2019.
New to me Author? Yes.
Why I rated it 5 stars?
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