2019 Reading Challenge Rundown

2018 saw me hit another reading slump even thou it was more than 2017 it was still way below what i would normally read in a year. I even stopped blogging thinking it would help with more reading time, but it didn’t really. So I’m signing up to some reading challenges again this year with the aim to read more.

2019 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

To read a book starting with every letter of the alphabet

Print Only 2019 Reading Challenge

To read as many physical book as possible. I’m aiming for out of print 1-10 books.

Monthly Keyword Challenge 2019

To read a book to relates to the keywords for that month

Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge 2019

Read as many contemporary romance books as possible for the year. I’m aiming for 2nd base 6-10 books

Colour Coded Reading Challenge 2019

To read books that have a colour in the title or is the dominant colour on the books’ cover

Read it again, Sam 2019

To re-read books that you have loved and feel like visiting again. I’m aiming for Deja Vu: 4 books

Royal Reading Challenge 2019

Read books that have a royal theme to theme. I’m aiming for Knight 1-3 books

2019 Book to Movie Reading Challenge

To read books that have been made turned into movies and/or TV shows. I’m aiming for Level 3A: to read 1-3 books and watch 1-3 movies from any year release.

Oldie But A Goodie Romance Reading Challenge 2019

To reading historical romances published before 2010. I’m aiming for ‘The newbie looking for a swoon worthy adventure’ 5-10 books

2019 Beat The Back List

To read books that have been sitting on your TBR pile for what seems like forever. I’m just a reader this year and won’t be participating in the Hogwarts mini house challenge.

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2018 Reading Challenge Rundown

After hitting a major reading slump in 2017, I’m hoping that completing some reading challenges will help be get my reading mojo back on track. When reading for challenges to do this year, I found so many good ones and I wanted to do them all. But alas it’s not possible, unless I read all day every day. Now this sounds like a good plan.

2018 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

To read a different book starting with every letter of the alphabet

2018 Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge

To read as many contemporary romances as you can within the year. I’m aiming for 2nd base -> 6-10 Books

Strictly Print Reading Challenge

To read print books that have been gathering on your shelves instead of ebooks. I’m aiming for board books -> 12 Books

2018 Colour Coded Challenge

To read books that have a colour in the title or is the dominant colour on the books’ cover

Read It Again, Sam

To re-read books that you have loved and feel like visiting again. I’m aiming for feeling nostalgic -> 8 Books

Monthly Keyword Challenge

To read a book each month that relates to the chosen keywords for that month

Author Love Challenge

To pick an author that you want to read more books from. I’ve picked Pepper Winters and aim to read 6 books

2018 Finishing The Series Reading Challenge

To finish reading books in series that you have started but never got around to finishing. I’m aiming for C-list series finisher -> complete 1-4 series

Books N’ Tunes Challenge

To match up books you read to music that you listen to. I’m aiming for level one – hum baby -> 10 items/10 tunes

The Bad Boys Of Romance Challenge

To read books that feature bad boys from romance novels. I’m aiming for level one – capturing the bad boy -> 5-9 Books

2018 Beat The Backlist

To read books that have been sitting on your TBR pile for what seems like forever. People are assigned a team and then work towards collecting points for their team. My team is ‘Dewey Dragons’. I’m aiming to at least knock 12 books off my pile

2018 Book To Movie Reading Challenge

To read books that have been made into movies or TV series. I’m aiming for level 3A.

There are worse crimes than burning books…

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Ray Bradbury

Hello wonderful readers. I can’t believe I haven’t written a blog post in so long. Truthfully I’ve been in such a massive reading slump for about the past 8 months and it’s been killing me. I’ve started so many books in the hopes of getting myself out of it but nothing seemed to be working. I tried new authors, short stories, long stories and even tried to reread my favourites, but nothing stuck. I feel so bad! So many new and exciting books have been released in that time, I even brought some, but they are still sitting either on the bookshelf or on the kindle waiting to be read and loved.

I haven’t even been blogging either. With the reading slump, I didn’t feel like doing that. I wanted to but just couldn’t get into it either.

So I decided to just take a break from both books and blogging. Not to panic, my time away was not wasted. I’ve still been bookstagramming (since I don’t have to read the actual books for that) and I’ve caught up on so many movies and TV shows that I was putting off because I was too busy reading. And now I feel better for it.

I went to a book signing in September and that was the first time that I felt excited and had the urge to read again. It’s been a slow process coming back, but I will get there.