I typically hate making New Year’s resolutions because it’s my belief that you should do so throughout the whole year, but I do still love them because it’s good motivation and something to look back on to see if I’ve accomplished my goals! Looking back at last year’s resolutions Reading resolutions Read more than last year – I *kind of* did this. I only read 75 in 2019, and I read 95 last year. So a little more, but I still […]
The end of year survey was created by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page-Turner Past surveys 2011 end of year survey 2012 end of year survey 2013 end of year survey 2014 end of year survey 2015 end of year survey 2016 end of year survey 2017 end of year survey 2018 end of year survey 2019 end of year survey (Wow, I didn’t realize I’d been doing it every year for my whole blogging career!) 2020 Reading stats Number of books […]
Sadly, there aren’t a whole lot of books I’m super excited about coming out this year :( I usually have 16 choices and have trouble cutting it down to that! This year I struggled just to pick 12. I’m still excited for all of these, but the only ones that I’m really dying to get my hands on are the first line of books. Weird. Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff – A NEW JAY SERIES, YASSSS. The Aurora […]
A few years ago I saw Cristina @ Girl in the Pages post about her 5 star reading drought (which was originally inspired by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit’s post here), and I thought it was such a great post, so I did one of my own! It was really interesting to see what me 5 star reads looked like for last year, so I decided I want to start doing it every year! 5 star books of 2020 This number […]
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I’m combining my Novel Heartbeat Awards with Top Ten Tuesday again this year! Top ten books of 2020 *doesn’t include re-reads Top 5 science fiction Top 5 high fantasy Top 5 urban fantasy Top 3 contemp/mystery/thriller Best Horror Top 5 audiobooks All of these were re-reads! (Ten Thousand Doors and Aurora Burning are on both lists because I loved them so much I listened to them after reading haha!) […]
Oath Taker by Audrey Grey Series: Kingdom of Runes #1 Published by Starfall Press (5.23.2019) Genres: High Fantasy, Young Adult Format: eBook, 317 pages Source: I own it Light magic is forbidden. Dark magic spells death. Haven has both. After the Prince of Penryth saved her from captivity, seventeen-year-old Haven Ashwood spends her days protecting the kind prince and her nights secretly fighting the monsters outside the castle walls. When one of those monsters kidnaps Prince Bell, Haven must ally with Archeron Halfbane and […]