Year in Review: 2014

2014
has been another great year and it’s hard to believe that 2015 starts tomorrow!

Some of the highlights of this year include:

• Attending BEA 2014 – what a great experience!!! Lots of great books, meeting other bloggers in person, networking with publishers/publicists, meeting authors and attending some of the parties! So much fun and I am definitely going again in 2015!
• I walked my first 1/2 marathon in just over 3 hours and then did a second one for charity 3 months later.

My top reads of 2014 are (in no particular order):

• In the Blood by Lisa Unger
• Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Wife, The Maid & The Mistress by Ariel Lawhon
• The Storied Life of A.J. Firky by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Forgotten Seamstress by Liz Trenow
• Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf
• The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
• Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
• The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewel
• The Look of Love by Sarah Jio
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
• The Life Intended by Kristin Harmel

So,
here are my stats for 2014. Overall, I completed 158 books (which
includes audio books) which is 2 books shy of what I read last year. I
also participated in some fun challenges that caused me to alter some
of my reading habits – all for the good. Here’s the breakdown:

• 158 books completed
• 110 books read – 58 print/52 e-book
• 48 audio books listened to
• 20 books from library 
• 6 print/14 audio
• 7 books read from my shelves – NEED TO WORK ON THIS!!!
• Purchased 79 books (includes audio books purchased via Audible)
• read/listened to 44

Of
the 13 year-long reading challenges
that I participated in for 2014, I completed 7. To see which ones I did, see my Month in Review: December 2014 post, where I list the final totals of each challenge. While I started to freak
out about this back a few months ago when I realized I wasn’t going to
finish a bunch of them, I decided to just let it go. After all, I did
read quite a lot of books – and with some of the reading challenges, I
crushed the goal, so in the end, I’m very happy with my results.

In
the next few days I will be adding
the challenges that I plan on participating in during 2015 – they are a
combination of ones I’ve done before and some new ones. Some of these I
sign up for merely to help me keep track of what I read – for instance,
how many audio books I listen to in a year or how many e-books I read in
a year. Some I do just because I enjoy participating in!

Thank
you to all my readers – I love reading and sharing with you my
thoughts on the books I read. I also love reading all your blogs. I
look forward to seeing what 2015 brings for my way!!!