Reading Challenge Update

Hello Everyone! Well remember at the beginning of the year I mentioned something about creating a reading challenge? Well there have been a couple of parts that I was fantastic at, but unfortunately there were others that I have barely touched. But I still think it would be great to do a update! When I decided to do a reading challenge, it was originally set up for me to read outside of my comfort zone of what I normally read, which is predominately romance, and I also wanted to read more books this year. Which I have. Way above my intended goal.

• Read 35-45 books. 

I have blown this goal out of the water. I am currently at 64 books read! Granted most are novellas or very quick brain dusters, but I'm counting them all dang it!

• Read 5 biographies/memoirs 

1. Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball (I read this book very early on in the year, and I was super excited to read and finish it. I absolutely loved reading about this fantastic woman that I have admired since I saw my first I Love Lucy episode as a child.) 

• Read 5 Non-Fiction books 

I have read ZERO 

• Read 5 Non-Romance novels 

I have read ZERO 

• Read 3-5 Classics 

I have read ZERO 

• Read or finish 3-5 Series 

1. The Fifty Shades of Grey series by E.L. James (I only had to read the last book Fifty Shades Freed to finish the series, but man was I happy to finish this train wreck. And I think the only reason I finished it was because I forced myself to do it to count as part of my reading goal challenge.) 

1. The Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison. (So I pushed myself to finish the last two books in the series: Stop in the Name of Pants and Are These My Basooma's I See Before Me? because I started to read this series when I was a young teen, I believe I was 14. The author passed away earlier this year, so I felt that in a way to honor her memory and comedy wit I'd finish the series. I had stopped reading the books because well, I had found to grow too old to have patience for the main characters childish attitude, but the last two books were very heart warming and as a reader it was refreshing to see the main character Georgia grow up and mature and be comfortable with her own quirky personality.) 

• Read 3 anthologies 

I have read ZERO 

• Read 10 Kindle books 

Oh Boy where do I go with this. I have read a lot of kindle books way more than the 10 that I had originally planned on reading. But lets give it a shot.

1. Bad Boy Daddy by Chance Carter 
2. Unwrapped by Lacey Alexander 
3. The Stocking was Hung by Tara Sivec 
4. Stepbrother UnSEALed by Nicole Snow 
5. Shift out of Luck by Ruby Dixon 
6. Get Your Shift Together by Ruby Dixon 
7. Shift Just Got Real by Ruby Dixon 
8. Does a Bear Shift in the Woods by Ruby Dixon 
9. The Duchess Wars by Courtney Milan 
10. Kissing my Killer by Helena Newbury 
11. Punching and Kissing by Helena Newbury 
12. Hardened by Ophelia Sikes 
13. The Blood & the Roses by Callie Hart 
14. The Island by Jen Minkman 
15. Gypsy Brothers: the complete series by Lili St. Germain 
16. Toughened by Ophelia Sikes 
17. At Any Price by Brenna Aubrey 
18. At Any Turn by Brenna Aubrey 
19. At Any Moment by Brenna Aubrey 
20. Play With Me by Piper Shelly 
21. Jace by Kenzie Cox 
22. Under the Cowboys Control by Lynda Chance 
23. Flirting With Felicity by Gerri Russell 
24. Southern Fried Blues by Jamie Farrell 
25. A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest 
26. A Shade of Blood by Bella Forrest 
27. A Castle of Sand by Bella Forrest 
28. A Shadow of Light by Bella Forrest 
29. A Blaze of Sun by Bella Forrest 
30. A Gate of Night by Bella Forrest 
31. A Break of Day by Bella Forrest 
32. Steeled by Ophelia Sikes 
33. Forged by Ophelia Sikes 
34. Uncovered by Ophelia Sikes 
35. Atoned by Ophelia Sikes 
36. Key West Dreams by Ophelia Sikes 
37. Caribbean Deceptions by Ophelia Sikes 
38. Mayan Sacrifice by Ophelia Sikes 
39. Cancun Betrayal by Ophelia Sikes 
40. Bastian by Lauren Landish 
41. Resonating Souls by Ophelia Sikes 
42. Wine-Dark Dreams by Ophelia Sikes 
43. The Soulless Abyss by Ophelia Sikes 
44. Wanting All by Ophelia Sikes 
45. Love's Heat by Ophelia Sikes 
46. Carved into my Heart by Ophelia Sikes 
47. Lost in Darkness by Ophelia Sikes 
48. Love's Labyrinth by Ophelia Sikes 
49. Flames and Tears by Ophelia Sikes 
50. Shades of Kiev by Bella Forrest 
51. Shades of Kiev 2 by Bella Forrest 
52. Shades of Kiev 3 by Bella Forrest 
53. Dwell in Possibility by Ophelia Sikes 
54. A Soul Ajar by Ophelia Sikes 
55. A Song of Soul and Hope by Ophelia Sikes 
56. Stop One Heart from Breaking by Ophelia Sikes 
57. Half Bad by Sally Green 

So basically out of the 64 books that I have read, 57 of them have been kindle books.

• Read 15 books by authors that I haven't read before 

Refer to Kindle Books. I allowed myself to double dip when it came to the challenge, so I figured the kindle books would have counted since I have never read any of those authors before. 

• Read all unread... 

1. Sherrilyn Kenyon books that I own (I have unfortunately neglected my favorite authors books.) 

1. Kathleen E. Woodiwiss books (I own all that she has had published) 

1. Read and catch up on the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich (I own 1 to 21, and I have read the first 7 in the series) 

1. Seven Up 

1. Hard Eight 

So...basically my reading challenge was dominated by kindle books. I'm hoping that the second half of the year I'll read more physical books and ones that are a part of my list. I'd like to read at least 1 in each category before the year is up. If you have followed my monthly TBR's you will see and huge accumulation of Sherrilyn Kenyon books and also Kathleen E. Woodiwiss books that are just begging for my attention.

Have any of you done a reading challenge? If so please comment below, I'd love to hear what you're doing to broaden your love of reading.

Happy Reading!