Spring Book Haul

I'm back with another book haul. I bought these over the last few months. A lot of them came from Thriftbooks, Library booksales, or Goodwill so I feel a little better about the money I have spent. Also, at least half of them were books I already had read or have read since buying them.

Here are the books I purchased.

March 2019 Purchases

The Darkest Surrender

The Darkest Seduction

Destined for an Early Grave

The Bear and the Nightingale

Rookie Move

Let Me Tell You about Jasper

Hot Response

The Return

The Power

The Struggle

The Prophecy

April 2019 Purchases

Soulless

Changeless

Blameless

Heartless

Shades of Wicked

Love & Gelato

Secrets of a Summer Night

It Happened One Autumn

Devil in Winter

Scandal in Spring

Let's Get Textual

A Scoundrel in Her Bed

Daughter of the Siren Queen

Warrior of the Wild

May 2019 Purchases

The Duchess Deal

Fluffy

These Broken Stars

The Bollywood Bride

My Not So Perfect Life

Love from A to Z

I've Got Your Number

Illuminae

Him 

Us

Thanks for reading!

Holly

2015 Bookish Goals

These are my book-related goals for 2015. Last year I had some reading goals, but I wanted to expanded my goals a little bit this year.

Reading Goals

~Total: 100

~Completed Series: 15

~Re-reads: 10

~New-to-me Authors: 15

~Classics/Non-Fiction: 5

~Big Books (over 500 pages): 5

~Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind

After looking over my reading for 2014 I feel like these are realistic goals. I combined Classics and non-fiction because those are two genres I tend to avoid and figure 5 total is more approachable. And just like last year these will be listed in their own tab and I will mark them off as they are completed.

Reviews/Videos

I want to do written reviews of at least 80% of the books I read. For about the last half of 2014 I reviewed basically everything I read and I would like to stay on that trend.

I would also like to do video reviews of at least 50% of the books I read. To me this means they are reviewed in a video separate from my wrap-ups.

I don’t have any particular “goals” connected to videos other than the one mentioned above when it comes to reviews. But I am going to switch from monthly wrap-ups to weekly wrap-ups.  They will probably be posted on Mondays.

Book Buying

I don’t think I have a book buying problem because I can afford every book I buy. I also don’t have a problem with having a lot of TBR books. But I have prioritized paying off my student loans and I hope this will help me with that goal. Additionally, I would like my TBR books to always fit on the bookshelf I currently store them on, so hopefully this will keep that under control. Below is how I plan on handling my book buying in 2015.

1)      For every 3 books I read I can buy 1 book.

2)      Re-reads do not count toward the 3 books.

3)      I am able to do a post-Christmas haul with the money I get for Christmas/Birthday

4)      I will begin the year by buying 5 books in January.

5)      If I unhaul 10 books I can buy 2.

I also did a video talking about these goals: