Reading Challenge Check-In January 2021
Time to check in for a monthly accountability on the Reading Challenges I’m participating inI can’t believe how quickly this month has flown by. As you may or may not recall, I was a little unsure about taking on these challenges as it took me practically a full year to get through one book last year. As it turns out, the problem wasn’t me. It was that book! After completing that book, I managed to quickly read 12 more short books to meet my GoodReads goal, plus one.
By the time January 1 rolled around, I was amped up and ready to do some serious reading.
Here’s my January progress:
Alphabet Soup Challenge - I’ve managed to read something that represents all of the letters, with the exception of the letter R. This will be completed in February. There was also a Bonus keyword challenge attached for the month of January that I completed.
Alphabet Soup Challenge - Author Edition - As with the Title Challenge, I’ve managed to read something that represents all of the letters, but this time with the exception of the letters N & Y. Yep, these will also be completed in February.
Craving For Cozies - 29 Cozy Mysteries read. This puts me into the ‘Famished’ category.
Literary Escapes - I read a lot of books that didn’t have a definitive location, but I have ‘visited’ these locations so far:
Arizona
CaliforniaFlorida
Idaho
Illinois
Kentucky
Maine
Massachusetts
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Texas
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Australia
Canada (Ontario)
Caribbean
Isle of Man
London
Mexico
New Zealand
Cloak & Dagger Challenge - 30 Mysteries. This puts me into the ‘Inspector’ category
Mount TBR - I’ve managed to knock out 27 books from my TBR list that continues to grow faster than I can keep up! I still have well over 15,000 titles on my TBR list. While I’m currently now in the ‘Mount Vancouver’ category, I have a feeling I’m going to be climbing A VERY LONG TIME…
Keyword Challenge - This is different from the Bonus Monthly keyword challenge attached to the Alphabet Soup Challenge. The Challenge for January were the keywords “End, Princess, Dance, Midnight, Court, Why, Winter, Story” I chose Midnight and completed the challenge with the book “Chasing Lady Midnight” by CL Ragsdale
A Personal Challenge of mine is to track the number of pages read. So far this year, I have read 6,948 pages.
Overall, I read a total of 45 books in January. You can see the books that I have read this year HERE.
I’d say that January was a HUGE success! How are you doing with your reading challenges?
That's a lot of books! If you review any of the cozies that are food-related (or any other food-focused book), I'd love to have you link up to Foodies Read. For February the link is at https://www.spiritblog.net/february-2021-foodies-read.
ReplyDeleteI'm in! Off to a good start with my first read being a Foodies Read. Thank you for the invitation.
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