The end of April marked the conclusion of my Fall and Winter 2017/2018 Reading Challenge. I am very happy that I got back into reading and using this challenge as a way to do it was, I believe, a really good choice on my part. It kept me accountable, on track, and blogging gave me an outlet to express things about what I read. Because let's face it, not a lot of people like the same, and widely varied, stuff that I do.
Overall, I completed a total of 13 books during my reading challenge. This number does not include the four books that I have read for book club since January. Those were in addition to the thirteen.
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| Not pictured: The Kite Runner and Beren and Luthien |
The books, in order of completion, (minus the book club books) were:
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Green Rider by Kristen Britain
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Transcendental by James Gunn
- The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
My original Reading Challenge list was 39 books long. With thirteen crossed off, I haven't actually made any headway because I've added at least another 20 titles to the original list of books I want to read. That's okay though, just means I will keep posting book reviews!
I looked back through some of my posts on the novels I read for the challenge and hope I did each of them some justice in one form or another. I also read through the update post I did at the start of the 2018 year and can I add to some of the things I commented about in it. Back then, Me Before You, was the book I enjoyed the most so far. Now that the challenge is done, I honestly have to say I enjoyed Transcendental the most. So that is a change. I also didn't meet my goal of finishing another seven books before the end of April, but I did get six done! That is still an accomplishment. It could have been less.
As part of looking back on things I wanted to note about my reading challenge, I also looked through the notebook I was using to help me with my blogging. The most notable thing was how since book one my notes per book got more detailed and my writing on each page got a lot smaller. Not only did I start tracking the plot of each book more, I was able to determine more themes and write more of my own questions into my notes. So, the more detailed the notes, the more I was able to pick things out to blog about. I did say after the first reading challenge post that I hoped my writing about the books would get better and, I think, it did. The posts are still not perfect, but definitely improved quite a bit.
Okay, okay. I will wrap up my remarks about by Reading Challenge and start on the details of my plan for reading for the remainder of 2018.
I plan on finishing all the series I've started since September!
Ambitious! I know! But I'm so excited to finish these stories so I don't have to keep thinking about how they end. This means finishing the following:
- The Vagrant series (2 books left) which was started as part of Book Club.
- Me Before You trilogy wich still has After You and Still Me in it.
- The Transcendental Machine trilogy. (So excited for this one!)
- The next FIVE books in the Green Rider series. (This one has no end yet, that I know of.)
I'm going to start with the next Green Rider book first: First Rider's Call. Once I'm done that I think I'm going to try and crank out the rest of Transcendental Machine before maybe going back to Green Rider ones. Of course, the rest of this year will also have more Book Club novels in it as well, so I've got my work cut out for me.
And it's already June!
I need to get on this I think!
*picks up book*
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