2016 Reading Challenges Update - February

The first Challenge I will be participating in is the 2016 Bookish Resolutions Challenge, hosted by Laura @ trips down imagination lane and Michelle @ Because Reading. The challenge runs from 1st January 2016 to 31st December 2016 and you can sign up here before 1st March 2016.

My 2016 resolutions are:

Bookish resolutions

• Get Netgalley ratio up to 80%
• January - 57%
• February - 57%
• Read 20 physical books I already owned prior to 1st January
• January - 2
• February - 4
• Reread 5 books
• January - 0
• February - 2
• Finish 6 series
• January - Finished/Up-to-date = 2
• February - Finished/Up-to-date = 3
• Reach my Goodreads goal this year (65 books)
• January - 8
• February - 14

Blogging resolutions

• Finish updating all blog posts to current layout
• January - A few updated this month
• February - All reviews updates! Just to update all other posts and make a few tweaks.
• Visit 4 blogs a week, so 16 a month (not including memes) (by visit I mean comment on)
• January - 9 (Need to be better)
• February - 12 (getting there)
• Blog ahead - get to at least 6 weeks ahead
• January - 2 weeks ahead (I think...)
• February - 1 week ahead

Personal resolutions

• Start going to the gym again
• January - I'm joining tomorrow...
• February - On hold indefinitely... need to save money
• Start learning Spanish again
• January - Haven't started yet...
• February - Still haven't started....

The second challenge I will be participating in is the 2016 New Release Challenge hosted by Lexxie @ (Un)conventional Bookreviews and Stormi @ Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My!. The aim of the challenge is to read as many books released in 2016 as possible. Sign up is open until 15th February 2016.

As this is my first year participating in this challenge and I'm wanting to read more books that I already own, I'm going to set my goal as New Release Pro so 16-30 books.

• January
1. The Truth, Jeffry W. Johnston
2. When Everything Feels Like the Movies, Raziel Reid
• February
1. Did I Mention I Need You? (The DIMILY Trilogy #2), Estelle Maskame

The third challenge I want to participate in is the 2016 Reading Assignment Challenge hosted by Berls @ Fantasy is More Fun and Michelle @ Because Reading. Sign up is open until 1st July 2016. I'm hoping this will help me reduce the number of physical books I have still to read.

As this is also my first year participating in this challenge (and I don't know how well I'll do reading from a set list), I'm aiming for level 1 so 12 books and 1 book a month. These are the books I plan to read over the year:

1. January - Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
2. February - The Other Me, Saskia Sarginson

The fourth, and final, challenge is the 2016 TBR Pile Reading Challenge hosted by Evie @ Bookish Lifestyle. The aim is to read as many books (published in or before 2015) from your TBR as possible. Sign up is open until 31 November 2016.

I'm going to set my goal at A Friendly Hug so 11 to 20 books.

• January
1. The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett
2. The Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey
3. Learning to Live (Infinite Love #1), Kira Adams
4. Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
5. The Heir (The Selection #4), Kiera Cass
6. Red Queen (Red Queen #1) Victoria Aveyard
• February 
1. The V Girl, Mya Robarts
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Other Me, Saskia Sarginson
4. Crossing the Ice (Ice #1), Jennifer Comeaux

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