I just put the black-eyed peas in the crock pot and now I’m sitting down to write about about my year in blogging. I celebrated my third year of book blogging in 2014, and it was a year of finding balance between my other (day-to-day stuff) and my reading. As anyone who blogs will tell you, it can be a bit of a full time job if you let it take over your life. My final reading total was 218, which was favorable to my forecast (or goal) of 215. I decided to look at what exactly I read and break it down very broadly by category. It’s not an exact measurement, but here is an approximate idea of what I read this year:
61% – YA (All categories of YA)
Here are a few that really stayed with me this year. Of course, this is a very short list. There are many more I could add….
28% – Romance (adult romance – includes regency, contemporary, paranormal, etc..)
Here are a few that of my favorites….
9% – Adult Fiction (lit fic, women’s fic, mystery, etc..)
Here are a few that I really enjoyed…..
2% – Audiobooks
Here are my favorites:
Reading goals for 2015:
My overall goal for number of books will be 205 this year. However, I’d like to spread the genre percentages a little more by reading perhaps a few more literary fiction books as well as some non-fiction.
Blogging goals:
1) Monthly updates – I’m going to post my TBR for the month which I think will help me remember what I need to read.
2) Comment more – I need to visit other bogs more often. I’m always glad that I did, I just need to set aside time to do it.
3) Send review links to publishers – I really need to start doing this at least once a month.
So, that’s it for me! What are your reading and/or blogging goals?
I am continually amazed by your reading accomplishments! I made it thru 87 books this year, and I’m aiming for 75 in 2015. This was one of my best (tracked) years of reading!
Happy New Year Kate! You are a amazing for reading so many books along with everything else that you do. I hope to visit blogs more often too. It’s just hard to make that time. Here’s to hoping that we both succeed this year! Congrats on over 3 years of blogging!
I don’t really feel like setting up goals for my blogging, except for being better at writing reviews after reading, keeping up better with my review books and finish some series that I have pending from last year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR KATE!!
I loved reading your list of best books of your 2014 reads. Nice goals. I plan to request less review books and read more from my pile this year while also catching up the review books waiting to be read.
I have more YA than anything else too. I have such a hard time deviating from YA, I am not sure why. I try to move to more mature in some books, I have them on my TBR, but my heart just belongs to YA. I have a Lot of Audiobooks on my list. I love my audio.
205 books! Good luck to ya, girl. My goal is 100! I made it with about 3 hours to spare in 2014, so I’m hoping it’ll be easier in 2015!
I have a lot of your favorites on my TBR, especially the Veronica Mars book. But ah! THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE! I just discovered Jandy Nelson in 2014 and I will forever love her now <3 I also plan on starting Sarah Rees Brennan's books soon too!
Happy New Year (a wee bit late). I’ve got a couple of those on my tbr pile. I just love Jill Shalvis. I so need to get caught up in her books. Sophie Jordan too.
So many great reads to check out 😀