#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks

Here's a great challenge to get the books you own read.

Okay, here's an embarrassing look at my unread books.  And this is not all of them as I have 2 shelves downstairs that have more.  Luckily these have been bought from library sales and bookoutlet so it's not the cost that is bothering me.  It's the lack of time.

Yup there has got to be over 200 books just in my crates alone.  These are sorted by alphabet by author to help me find them.  Which still I have problems finding books because I have a ton on my kindle as well.  Yup I collect cheap books on my kindle too.  Yes, I have a problem.

#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks. I'll be using this hashtag to talk about this personal challenge throughout the year. The rules are pretty nonexistent....

• Read my own books
• Try to knock off 100 in 2016 by either reading them or ditching the ones that are DNF
• I can't buyyyy myself any new releases until I've read a significant amount of my own. Like maybe I can treat myself for every 5-10 of my own books I read. I'll be fairly flexible with this and see where my guilt leads me. 
• I can purchase next book in a series if I don't own it but need to read it that month
• If I'm itching for newness...use the library. 

Wish me luck with #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks! 

If you'd like to join me in this attempt.  You can sign up here.

Happy reading.

Challenges for 2016

It's time to set challenges for 2016

Here's one I found called Rock My TBR.  Use #RockMyTBR

It's a challenge to read stuff you already own.  I'm going to try to do this next year along with my 2016 Reading List Goal.  Of course, a lot of the books on my 2016 reading list will also qualify since I've collected some along the way.

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MY GOAL

I just want to read two book each month that I already own.  Some could be from my 2016 Reading List.

THE BOOKS

2016 Reading List Goal.   Remember I'm a mood reader so I'm not going to choose my books quite yet except for the 2016 reading list goal which has 50 books listed.  Where I think I own 36 of those books so they will all count towards my goal.  The rest I will probably use the library.

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Another Challenge I found was Finishing the Series

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Yup I am not a fan of series yet I tend to collect a lot of them.  My problem is that I love the first book and each additional book goes down a star.  I haven't read one series that I liked the entire thing.  

MY GOAL

My goal is Level 3 (Experienced) - to complete 3 to 6 series.

THE BOOKS

Now this is a hard one but here are the ones which I want to read soon.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (I plan to attempt to read this in January)  (book 1)

Do Not Disturb by A.R. Torre (book 2)

If you Dare by A.R. Torre (book 3)

Stand Off by Andrew Smith (book 2)

Reckless Hearts by Sean Olin (book 2)

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Another Challenge  Contemporary Romance #ContRom2016

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MY GOAL

Since I read a lot of different genres I'm only going to set my goal to 

• 1st Base: read 1 – 5 books  

I think that will be a doable number.

THE BOOKS

I'm not going to pick out my books quite yet.