An Update on my 2015 Reading Challenge

At the beginning of the year I decided that I was going to participate in both the Book Riot Read Harder challenge and the PopSugar Ultimate Reading challenge as I believed that it would widen my horizons and book choices. I made a list of all the books I wanted to read to accomplish this and spent time considering what would be the best choices for me.

I was really excited by the whole thing and at the start I flew through quite a few of the books on my list, but as I got further into the year, I just wasn't in the mood to read the choices of books that I had made so I changed up some of my original choices with books that I did want to read but that still fit the challenge criteria. As more time went on the books I wanted to read no longer fit under any of the criteria to fit on my challenge list and I started to begrudge reading any of them, even though I do want to read them all, just not at this point in time. Because of this I went into a reading slump for a couple of months which was tough to get through.

So I've made a decision, I'm not going to be completing my 2015 Reading Challenge that I set for myself, I have hit my target of how many books I wanted to read this year (100) and I have thoroughly enjoyed, for the most part, the books I have read. I'm doing this so that I can carry on enjoying my reading experience which is the most important thing to me. I have found that this sort of challenge just doesn't work for me as I found it very restrictive, which is the complete opposite of the reason I was doing it in the first place. This is also the reason that I don't set monthly tbr lists as I never know what genre I'm going to be in the mood for. I do still think that it's a great way for people to expand their reading experience it is just not for me.

If I do read any books that fit in before the end of the year, I'll definitely still blog about them and update my list, but if not, I really don't mind. If you'd like to see how I did, click here for my original 2015 Reading Challenge post.

Have you ever participated in a reading challenge? How did you find it?

A Decision Has Been Made

I've been thinking about my book reviews and how I want to go forward with them, making sure I have enough time to do all the things that I want to do as well. I have decided that I will for the time being at least only be doing a full review on books and comics for my reading challenges. All other books I read will still get a mini review on Goodreads with a star rating, but they will not currently get a blog review. What I will do though, is a monthly wrap up blog post listing the books I have read outside of the challenges and what ratings I gave each of them.

Looking to the future, I will also be blogging about snail mail, crafts and any conventions that I attend (I have a few in my diary already) so making this decision gives me more time to dedicate to my other passions and to be able to share them with you.

This has been a big, scary but exciting decision to make and I am looking forward to bringing a more diverse content to my blog.