Today I want to share my completed 4 x 4 mini album of my 52 New Books in 2016. When I set the goal at the beginning of the year to read 52 New Books in 2016 I thought I was setting a lofty goal. In truth, I believe I did. But, I've come to love reading new books, of many kinds, and because of this and finding websites on reading like Modern Mrs. Darcy, I was encouraged to read!
And read.
So, this September, when I picked up J. D. Robb's Apprentice In Death, fitting of course because this series is my all-time favorite - still, I completed my goal of reading 52 New Books in 2016. It feels good.
Of course, I believe this means my 2017 goal needs to be loftier and one that will take me to the very last day of the year to complete. What will it be?
75 New Books in 2017?
80 New Books in 2017??
90 New Books in 2017???
100 New Books in 2017????
Gonna' have to give this some serious thought.
But, in the mean time I wanted to share my mini album that I created to document my success!
I used a 4 x 4 We R Memories album, Ali Edwards Designs, and One Little Bird Designs to complete my pages.
For each page I added the book cover, when I finished the book, and sometimes a short blurb of what I thought of the book, and at times, I rated the book.
I read some books that were just okay.
And some books I just did not like - even if they had rave reviews.
I read several genres of books from Memoirs, to non-fiction; Christian non-fiction, Fiction, and Literary fiction.
I am so pleased that from all of my reading travels I found some new favorite series' such as Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series and Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt series.
I was definitely stretched as a reader through this challenge.
And I loved every minute of reading reviews, reading blogs about reading, selecting books, buying books, filling my shelves with books, and reading!
Documenting the books I read here on the blog, making mini-pages for a mini album of what I read, held me accountable to my goal.
So excited for this coming years new reading goal.