At the end of 2015, I decided to participate in four book challenges for 2016. I was to read certain books to fulfill different category requirements for each challenge. Well, I don't mind telling you that I didn't do very well this year. Oh, I read a lot of books. 141 to be exact, with one more that I plan to finish before the end of the year, but the book challenges are a different story. (Read my original post about the challenges here.)I only finished one of the four book challenges in its entirety. It was the Anne of Green Gables challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed rereading the entire series and reading a new Anne book, The Blythes are Quoted. It is filled with Anne's poetry, conversations within her family, and short stories about the people in her community.
As for the other three challenges, the Back to the Classics challenge, the Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge, and the Grown Up Reading Challenge, well what can I say. I partially completed all of them, reading more than 50% of the categories required. I found, though, that rather than trying to find books to fit the categories, I tried to fit the books I was already reading into the required slots. I guess that kind of defeats the purpose of expanding my reading horizons.
2016 was the third year that I kept an exhaustive spreadsheet of everything I read and the related statistics and the second year I participated in book challenges. As for 2017, I can't decide what I want to do. I like the idea of book challenges - meeting requirements and expanding my horizons. However, I also enjoy the freedom to read whatever I want, without the internal pressure that is telling me I should be reading something else. I'm pretty sure, though, that whatever 2017 brings, I'll be reading lots of books, both new and old, and enjoying every minute of it!
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