Reader Harder 2018 - The Beginnings

It’s actually almost like failing the Book Riot Read Harder challenge is becoming a tradition! Well. Here's the list. I'm already ahead of the game. So, I should totally win this time!! Right! Just lie to me, yall. 

Here's the list and how Sarah and I broke down the 24 categories.

Three Star Reads - 2017

All of the #BestBooks of 2017 posts have inspired me to consider the worst books I’ve read this year. Worst is relative, right?

The best way I know to do this is to look at the stuff I DNF’d (posted yesterday) and the books with my lowest ratings.

One of my book goals this year was to give more 3- star ratings, because it's a good score, it just *feels* mean. As it turns out, 3 stars was the lowest rating I gave. This means that even my “worst books” were not that bad. They just weren’t at the top of the pile for me.

Books I DNFd in 2017

All of the Best Books of 2017 posts have inspired me to consider the worst books I’ve read this year.

My goal at the beginning of the year was to DNF more books because last year I felt like I was finishing books I didn’t like, just for the sake of… I don’t know. For no reason.

So, these are the books I added to my Did Not Finish shelf on goodreads. I created this shelf so that I could stop picking up books I had tried and hated.

Note: I also have a shelf for DNF books that I want to come back to, for when I run out of time on a library loan or I think I'm just not in the right head space for the content or something. These are not those books. (I actually just moved some of these over to the other shelf as I'm reviewing them. I was deluding myself.)

Meredith's Book Club - 2017 Wrap up post

Meredith’s book club is my “regular” book club. It’s what most people think about when they think of books clubs. A group of people who know each other in various ways get together. Pairs of us are friends in different settings, outside of book club and we all basically like each other so we might talk about doing non-book related things together too, sometimes. Sometimes we actually do it. Each person hosts at their house and picks the book for that time. Sometimes, everyone reads the book, most of the time at least two people don’t read it.

 

We’ve got six members now, having lost one person this year to whatever else she would prefer to be doing. It happens. She was one of the women who almost always read the book, though. But she also came out of her face with some annoying ass shit, so pros and cons. Bye.

For 2016, I did two posts: one for books I read and one for books I didn’t read [linked]. This time I’m just going to put them all in this one post. Because lazy. 

What I've Been Reading and How the Hell I'm Gonna Read Harder

I am working “frantically” to finish the Read Harder challenge over the next week. How could I have read so many books and still have categories unsatisfied for this damn challenge!? I guess, this is the point of doing a challenge: to expand what I’d typically read. But I’ve read about 7 books in the last 3 weeks!!!! I’m ridiculous. I'm also on the brink of quitting so that I can start thinking about 2018 challenge. Because that makes sense. ::eye roll emoji::

But, whatever. Here are my favorites over the last few weeks. No real surprise that my favorites are parts of series I've been loving.