New Twelvemonth Quondam Year... A Await Dorsum As Well As A Peek Forward...

Happy New Year! It's a novel twelvemonth together with of course of educational activity that agency novel books! (new reading goals, novel challenges) Yes, welcome to , The Lord's Day Post, which is hosted yesteryear Kim at The Caffeinated Book Reviewer! After a really busy few months, things are finally getting dorsum to normal together with the books on my shelfs are getting the dust wiped off of them together with pose dorsum on the nightstand! Yesterday, I ended the "old year", 2016, alongside a exceptional surprise inward the post service from Harper Collins! I am thus excited that they sent me a mass I've been waiting for, for over a year! That mass is Mississippi Blood yesteryear Greg Iles! Yes, I am thrilled! But earlier nosotros start the novel year, lets direct maintain a hold off dorsum on 2016...

Reading Goals... How did I produce on my reading goals? 

   *2016 I Love Libraries Reading Challenge... my goal was to direct maintain out together with read six books from my local library, I took out together with read 12! I recollect I may direct maintain genuinely taken a few to a greater extent than out, but I am happy to say, I surpassed my library goal! And I enjoyed it too! I saved a combat of money, helped my library yesteryear showing that people produce purpose it together with encouraged others to see their library too!

  *2016 Graphic Novel & Manga Challenge... my goal was to read together with review 12 books. I did read to a greater extent than than 12, but alone reviewed 11, thus I missed that goal simply a little. I'll live posting the reviews for the other books I read inward the side yesteryear side coming weeks.

  * Book Bingo 2016 Challenge... my goal was to fill upwards the entire Bingo card! I almost made it, reading 22 out of 25 books. This twelvemonth I'm going to brand it!

  *Goodreads Reading Challenge 2016... my goal was to read 50 books together with I read 63!!! (Too bad all those books didn't agree all the categories on my Book Bingo card!

How did y'all produce alongside your reading challenges?

 Do y'all ready reading goals for the year?

I purpose to live "Challenge Obsessed"! I honey reading together with thus many challenges sounded thus interesting! Mysteries, Southern authors, Jane austen, Poetry, Historical fiction... but together with then I flora myself choosing books soley on what I needed to fill upwards my reading challenge obligations together with non necessarily on something I saw that I wanted to read. So, I've calmed downwardly quite a combat on signing upwards for challenges. But reading challenges are fun! I direct maintain non signed upwards for whatsoever reading challenges yet, but at that topographic point are a few definite choices... 

Reading Challenges 2017... 

Goodreads Reading Challenge 2017... There is a glitch at the Goodreads site when I tried to sign upwards for this years reading challenge, but I'll become dorsum together with bring together inward later. My goal is 50 books, which I was happy to hit in conclusion year, but is all the same a large goal. Interested inward joining? Here's the LINK.

2017 Library Love Challenge... I honey my library. Fortunately I direct maintain a peachy library together with they instruct or tin give notice instruct almost whatsoever mass I desire to read. And I am running out of infinite at domicile for all the books that I convey home, thus why non salve a picayune coin together with room at domicile yesteryear BORROWING about of those books I desire to read!? Love this challenge, which encourages y'all to honey your library! This twelvemonth the challenge is co hosted yesteryear Bea's Book Nook and Angel's Guilty Pleasures. I'll live signing upwards this calendar week together with I'll live posting nigh it too.

Book Bingo 2017... Last twelvemonth I posted a Bingo bill of fare for all the readers to bask filling in. I'm going to produce this in i lawsuit to a greater extent than this year. I also made upwards Bingo cards for all my reading grouping members, but each fellow member had a dissimilar organisation of the mass categories, thus nosotros all wouldn't direct maintain the same Bingo's. They all loved it! And I'll live doing it in i lawsuit to a greater extent than for them this year, alongside about changes inward the categories. Bingo cards are thus much fun! I've seen other reading challenges produce this too! Join inward the fun! I'll live posting the Bingo bill of fare this coming week!

Favorite Books of 2016...

There were thus many adept books I read this year, it is difficult to pick simply one, or fifty-fifty three, but hither are 3 peachy books that should non disappoint if you're looking for something to read...

Eternal on the Water yesteryear Joseph Monninger... I absolutely loved this book. It's similar a walk inward the woods, it's 2 people falling inward love, it's wonderful! Here's my review, "Did y'all always want a mass to never end?! That's how I felt nigh Eternal on the Water!"

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor... It's non also oft that I read scientific discipline fiction, but I was reading nigh the 2015 Nebula abide by winners together with this struck me equally interesting. It's a picayune nether 100 pages together with worth every word! It is wonderful! Read this! 

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi... A wonderful novel! Here's business office of my review, "At the 2nd of finishing Homegoing, all I could recollect was "Wow"! What a breathtaking, sweeping novel. All of the characters were thus incredibly live off of the pages. The story, the landscapes, were all thus incredibly rich alongside details together with substance. I read this leisurely, enjoying every minute. I was captivated from the really start..."

                   What were your favorite books of 2016?

Looking Forward...

2017 volition direct maintain novel books! What volition live the breakout novel of the year?! Well, hither are a few books to hold off frontward to...

Mississippi Blood yesteryear Greg Iles... If y'all are familiar alongside this series, Mississippi Blood is the 3rd (and I recollect last) mass of this trilogy. Penn Cage is the "hero" inward these books, genuinely a lawyer together with ex procecutor, together with the serial is a thriller filled alongside secrets, revenge, honey together with tragedy. The writing is peachy together with from the commencement mass through the 2nd book, I was on the border of my topographic point together with fully immersed. Penn Cage is "the man" inward Greg Iles books, thus if y'all similar this series, y'all tin give notice see Penn inward i of his other stories.

Depraved Heart yesteryear Patricia Cornwell... I haven't read anything yesteryear Patricia Cornwell inward forever, but I purpose to LOVE her books. I discovered her i twenty-four lx minutes menses together with read every Kay Scarpetta mass dorsum to dorsum until I was caught up, together with and then I simply variety of got Kay Scarpetta overload. I simply received a re-create of Depraved Hearts from the publisher this calendar week together with thought, hey, wouldn't it live squeamish to see Kay Scarpetta again. And so, if y'all bask Patricia Cornwell, it's fourth dimension to cleft opened upwards Depraved Hearts, which is coming inward paperback this week! "Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a highly suspicious boot the bucket scene inward Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency warning sounds on her phone. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 video link seems to live from her niece Lucy. But how tin give notice it be? It’s clearly a surveillance cinema of Lucy taken almost xx years ago."

The Wicked City yesteryear Beatriz Williams... I simply received Beatriz Williams' mass A Certain Age inward the mail, together with hither I come across that Beatriz is dorsum alongside to a greater extent than from that era!  "New York Times bestselling writer Beatriz Williams recreates the New York City of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Certain Age inward this deliciously spicy direct chances that mixes yesteryear together with introduce together with centers on a Jazz Age honey triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper, together with a debonair Princetonian from a wealthy family." This sounds fun together with is coming out Jan. 17th! A Certain Age is out inward hardcover together with volition live out inward paperback this week!

There are many authors coming out alongside books this year! Next Sunday, we'll live dorsum alongside to a greater extent than peachy books coming out inward the side yesteryear side few months that y'all are non going to desire to miss! For now, I'm going to catch about other loving cup of Java together with settle downwardly alongside a adept book! Which book?! I direct maintain my hear on a few, but I'll allow y'all know what my FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR turns out to live afterwards this week!

Hope y'all flora something interesting hither today! Let me know what you're reading! And what books you're looking frontward to inward 2017!

Happy reading... Suzanne

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