Monthly Wraps: December 2015

 

Last month’s deets on I Heart Romance & YA

I know I’m a little late in posting my December wrap-up post but I actually wrote a lot of posts and did a couple of surveys towards the end of the year so…  I know, excuses.  But I’m glad that I finally caved in and wrote this post.

READING CHALLENGE STATS

1. GoodReads Reading Challenge – 106/100*
2. Review Challenge – 48/100 –  I know I’ve been really bad about writing reviews so this will be one of my goals this year.
3. Historical Romance Challenge – 41/48 – almost made it!  I’ve been reading a lot of YA in 2015
4. NetGalley Challenge – 14/20
5. Re-Read Challenge – 9/5*

READING PROGRESS

DISCUSSIONS ON THE BLOG

1. [1 Dec] Write On Review-a-Thon: November Wrap-Up
2. [2 Dec] Monthly Wraps: November 2015
3. [5 Dec] Bookish Discussions: So Much for My Happy Ending
4. [14 Dec] December New Release Hop + Giveaway
5. [15 Dec] Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2015
6. [16 Dec] Unique Holiday Gifts for the YA Bookworm in Your Life
7. [21 Dec] Top 10 Adult Romance Books I Read in 2015
8. [22 Dec] Top Ten Best Book Covers of 2015
9. [23 Dec] Top Ten Baddies of 2015
10. [24 Dec] Top Ten Best Book Boyfriends of 2015
11. [25 Dec] Top 10 Books I’m looking forward to in 2016
12. [26 Dec] Write On Review-a-Thon: December 2015
13. [27 Dec] 2016 Reading Challenges
14. [31 Dec] Write On Review-a-Thon: December Wrap-Up

LAST MONTH’S REVIEWS

1. [3 Dec] The Match of the Century by Cathy Maxwell
2. [9 Dec] Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
3. [10 Dec] Winter by Marissa Meyer
4. [11 Dec] The Beautiful Ashes by Jeaniene Frost
5. [18 Dec] Talon by Julie Kagawa
6. [28 Dec] All I Want for Christmas Is a Duke by Valerie Bowman, Tiffany Clare, Vivienne Lorret, Ashlyn MacNamara
7. [29 Dec] Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
8. [30 Dec] One-Eyed Dukes are Wild by Megan Frampton

LAST MONTH’S READS

       

LAST MONTH ON-HOLD

    

• Grave Mercy – Mainly because of the foreign sounding similar names.  It’s such a shame because I really, really liked the heroine!
• The Rogue not Taken – I felt that Sophie was TSTL and I didn’t like the flow
• Days of Blood & Starlight – I really wanted to like it but it was just too weird.  I may pick this up again this year.
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – This will be another book that I will pick up this year.
• Cold-Hearted Rake – This was hard for me to put on hold because it’s LISA KLEYPAS, but I didn’t like Devon or Kathleen.

FAVORITE MONTH READ

Illuminae wins this hands down!

MOVIES SEEN

 

Everybody repeat after me: REY!

TV MARATHONS

 

• The 100 – How did I NOT see this?!
• Seve Deadly Sins – Pierre has been in an anime craze the last couple of months and he forced suggested I would enjoy this.  I tried not to, BUT IT’S SOOOO GOOD!

 

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RANDOM THOUGHTS

My TBTB Secret Santa is Kate from Ex Libris and she gave me new books to read from an author I haven’t tried!