January Challenge Check-In

It’s time for a challenge check! I made a good amount of progress towared my reading goals this month. Here is a summary of what I’ve accomplished in January. You can also check my 2015 Challenges page to see where I stand towards completing my goals!

2015 Bookish Resolutions

I accomplished a good amount this month.

• Book Reviews: My goal is to review 90% of the books I read. Of the six books I read this month, I have reviewed three and have written and scheduled reviews two more. I still have some work to do here. I have kept up with my cross-posting.
• I made no progress towards finding new homes for my books.
• I did work on facilitating an online book discussion by playing with the Disqus commenting system. Disqus did not work out for me. You can read my posts about it here and here. While I will ‘never say never’ I have no plans to spend anymore time on Disqus. I will be on the lookout for another commenting system but for now, I consider this experiment over. If you have a system you like and recommend, please let me know!
• I made no progress towards making a decision about moving my blog to Wordpress
• I participated in the 2015 Winter Mini Bloggiesta, so that resolution is half completed!

Book Blogger Organization Challenge

This is a very informal challenge with the goal of keeping our blogs organized and maintained. The goal in January was to focus on reading challenges and resolutions. I completed the January phase of the challenge I selected the challenges I plan to participate in and made some resolutions, which you can see in this post or on my 2015 Challenges page. I did not work on scheduling as I already keep my schedule on a Google calendar.

2105 Goodreads Reading Challenge

I read five books in January.

• The Fever by Megan Abbott
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
• A Sister To Honor by Lucy Ferriss
• Vanessa And Her Sister by Priya Parmar
• Parenting: Illustrated With Carppy Pictures by Amber Dusick

2015 Mount TBR Challenge

I read two books from my own shelf

• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson

And one more which does not count for the challenge since it is an ARC. I still am counting it for my own goal; I just can’t claim it on the challenge page!

• Vanessa And Her Sister by Priya Parma

2015 Historical Fiction Challenge

I read two historical fiction novels

• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• Vanessa And Her Sister by Priya Parmar

2015 Goodreads Choice Awards

I read one book for this challenge

• Humor — Parenting: Illustrated With Carppy Pictures by Amber Dusick

2015 Bookclub Reads

I read our January selection and attended the discussion

• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger