Year in Review: 2015

2015
has been another great year and it’s hard to believe that 2016 starts tomorrow!

 
Some of the highlights of this year include:

• Attending
  BEA 2015 – for the second year in a row. Another fantastic experience with my partner-in-crime, T from Traveling with T!!! Lots of great books, meeting
  other bloggers in person, networking with publishers/publicists, meeting
  authors and attending some of the parties! So much fun! Still on the fence as to whether I’m going in 2016 – it’s not in NY this year, which isn’t quite as convenient…stay tuned to see what happens.
• I had my name mentioned in the acknowledgement section of a book for the first time – so very cool and yet humbling at the same time!!!

My top reads of 2015 are (in order I read them):

• The Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel
• One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis
• The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
• The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
• Dear Carolina by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
• Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
• As Night Falls by Jenny Milchman
• Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica
• The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff
• In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
• The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young
• Come Away With Me by Karma Brown
• Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
• What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

So,
here are my stats for 2015. Overall, I completed 153 books (which
includes audio books) – this is 5 books shy of what I read last year. Here are some stats about how much I read and what I read:

• 153 books completed
• 81 books read – 50 print/31 e-book
• 72 audio books listened to
• 20 books from library 
• 3 print/17 audio
• 3 books read from my shelves – NEED TO WORK ON THIS!!!
• Purchased 64 books (includes audio books purchased via Audible)
• read/listened to 40
•  59 books completed were from new-to-me authors

Of
the 7 year-long reading challenges
that I participated in for 2015, I completed 5. To see which ones I did, see my Month in Review: December 2015 post, where I list the final totals of each challenge.

In
the next few days I will be adding
the challenges that I plan on participating in during 2016. I primarily use these challenges to help me keep track of what I read – how many books overall, how many library books I read, how many audio books I listen to, how many new-to-me authors I read, and how many of my own books I read – this last an area that I tend to not do too well in. I found a challenge where I can set the terms and I hope that will make me more successful – I’ll be posting about it in the next day or so.

Thank
you to all my readers – I love reading and sharing with you my
thoughts on the books I read. I also love reading all your blogs. I
look forward to seeing what 2016 brings for my reading!