[Wrap Up Post] Bookish Bingo: Winter 2017 - 2018

These are the books that I read in the month of DEC that crossed some of the spots from the bingo:

• COLD SETTING: The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket
• SCI-FI: Catstronauts: Mission Moon, by Drew Brockington
• ROMANCE: End Game, by Lisa Renee Jones
• SPINOFF: Darker, by EL James
• LGBT+: True, by Ella Frank
• 2017 RELEASE YOU MISSED: The Time in Between, by Kristen Ashley
• MUSIC THEMES: Complicated, by Kristen Ashley
• WINTER RELEASE: The Hookup, by Kristen Ashley

These are the books that I read in the month of JAN that crossed other spots from the bingo:

• VILLAINOUS: Dignity, by Jay Crownover
• GREEN COVER: The Grim Grotto, by Lemony Snicket
• RED COVER: The Penultimate Peril, by Lemony Snicket
• LIGHT BLUE COVER: Shelter, by Jay Crownover
• TREES ON COVER: Salvaged, by Jay Crownover
• SNOW OR ICE ON COVER: The Hammer of Thor, by Rick Riordan
• BINGO!!!!
• DEATH: The Ship of the Dead, by Rick Riordan
• FAIRIES: Reunited, by Colleen Houck
• BINGO AGAIN!!!!
• BOOK WAS A GIFT: Escape, by Jay Crownover
• BUDDY READ: Catstronauts: Race to Mars, by Drew Brockington

And lastly, these are the books that I read in the month of FEB that crossed some of the remaining spots from the bingo:

• FRIEND'S FAVE: The Bitterroot Inn, by Devney Perry
• BINGO AGAIN!!!
• BLACK AUTHOR: Meet Cute, by Various Authors
• BINGO AGAIN!!!
• HOLIDAY THEME: Babymouse, Monster Mash, by Jennifer L Holm
• BINGO AGAIN!!!

I tried, guys. I wanted to fill the whole card, but I couldn't. Still, I'm proud to have done some bingos! Till next time, I hope there will be a next one.

Bout of Books 21 [Wrap-Up Post]

Bout of Books is here! It has passed a whole year since I did this read-a-thon, but I'm glad I can do it now. I hope it will go as good as I want. I don't have a tbr list for this read-a-thon, but I hope to knock down some big books on my bookshelf.

READ ON DAY ONE:

  

Norse Mythology, by: Jim Ollhoff

32 / 32 pages

Favorite Norse Myths, by: Mary Pope Osborne

87 / 87 pages

The Hammer of Thor, by: Rick Riordan

30 / 471 pages

Here's the deal with the Norse mythology books: I'm reading Magnus Chase series, I needed a little bit more of info before I actually dig in for the second book, so voilá.

READ ON DAY TWO:

The Hammer of Thor, by: Rick Riordan

147 / 471 pages

READ ON DAY THREE:

 

The Hammer of Thor, by: Rick Riordan

198 / 471 pages

We Can Be Mended, by Veronica Roth

33 / 33 pages

READ ON DAY FOUR:

The Hammer of Thor, by: Rick Riordan

315 / 471 pages

READ ON DAY FIVE:

 

The Hammer of Thor, by: Rick Riordan

471 / 471 pages

Rebound, by: Remi Ryan

192 / 192 pages

READ ON DAY SIX:

 

The Ship of the Dead, by: Rick Riordan

423 / 423 pages

Starflight, by: Melissa Landers

121 / 362 pages

READ ON DAY SEVEN:

  

Starflight, by: Melissa Landers

362 / 362 pages

Starfall, by: Melissa Landers

368 / 368 pages

You Are Here, by: Jenny Lawson

128 / 128 pages

STATS:

Books Finished: 8

Pages Read: 2,096

TODAY'S CHALLENGE:

Leave a Book Review!

Did you know? Book reviews help other readers discover new books. For today's challenge, we encourage you to write a review of a book you've read during the readathon (or recently) and publish it where other readers make their purchasing decisions (e.g., Amazon, Goodreads, etc.). Be sure to share it with us.

All my reviews can be found here.
How was your read-a-thon? I had fun, so how about you?

#AMONTHOFFAVES : December 26th

Hosted by Girlxoxo, Traveling with T and Estella’s Revenge. A month in where we look back at the year that was – sharing our fave experiences. They have every day of the event (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) planned out so you can join in anytime. There will also be a link-up on all of their blogs – put a link to your post so that everyone can stop by each and every post to leave comments, high fives, good vibes and well wishes.
Every day is a different "challenge" and I hope to do them all. *crossing my fingers*
My posts from days before are under THIS tag.

Challenges

This is not going to look pretty guys. I basically failed, even though I cut my challenges a lot for the year, I sucked.

Reading Challenges

• Contemporary Romance
• Goal: 50 books (Grand Slam)
• Read: 61 books
• Status: COMPLETED
• Flights of Fantasy
• Goal: 10 books
• Read: 28 books
• Status: COMPLETED
• New Release
• Goal: 35 books
• Read: 34 books
• Status: FAILED
• 2017 Monthly Motif
• Goal: scratch all of them
• Scratched: 11
• Status: FAILED
• The Totally Doable
• Goal: scratch all of them
• Scratched: all of them
• Status: COMPLETED
• PopSugar '17
• Goal: scratch 25
• Scratched: 37
• Status: COMPLETED

Blogging Challenges (from myself to myself)

• Top Ten Tuesday
• Goal: post one or two every month
• Posts Made: 15
• Status: COMPLETED
• Teaser Tuesday
• Goal: post one per month
• Posts Made: 4
• Status: FAILED
• Waiting on Wednesday
• Goal: post every Wednesday
• Posts Made: 52
• Status: COMPLETED
• Swoon Thursday
• Goal: post one every two months
• Posts Made: 4
• Status: FAILED
• Thursday Tracks
• Goal: post every Thursday
• Posts Made: 44
• Status: FAILED
• The Friday 56
• Goal: post one every month
• Posts Made: 3
• Status: FAILED
• Stacking the Shelves
• Goal: post one every two months
• Posts Made: 5
• Status: FAILED
• Book-To-Movie
• Goal: post one every two months
• Posts Made: 3
• Status: FAILED
• Book Issues
• Goal: post one every two months
• Posts Made: 3
• Status: FAILED
• Dress Up That Cover
• Goal: post one every two months
• Posts Made: 4
• Status: FAILED

Now, let's talk about the challenges I'm going to get going in 2018... I really, really hope not to suck much on those. They are less because obviously, I don't need so many and the reasons being that I failed every time I get on too many of them. You can know more about my challenges here.

Reading Challenges

• Contemporary Romance
• Goal: 21+ books (Grand Slam)
• Flights of Fantasy
• Goal: 15 books
• 2018 New Release
• Goal: 31 to 60 books (New Release Pro)
• 2018 Beat the Backlist
• Goal: 25 books
• 2018 AtoZ Reading Challenge
• Goal: 26 books
• Read from my Bookshelf
• Goal: 36 books
• Young Adult
• Goal: 15 books

Blogging Challenges

• Top Ten Tuesday
• Goal: 12 posts
• Waiting on Wednesday
• Goal: 52 posts
• Thursday Tracks
• Goal: 52 posts
• The Friday 56
• Goal: 6 posts
• Stacking the Shelves
• Goal: 6 posts
• Book Issues
• Goal: 4 posts
• Book-To-Movie
• Goal: 4 posts

I swear that I also need more read-a-thons, so I'll see if I sign up for some in the course of 2018. Wish me luck! Where are your challenges?

Bout of Books 18 [Wrap-Up]

Bout of Books is done and I did good, I think. See it for yourself:

READ ON DAY 1:

*click on picture for review*

 

November, by Audrey Carlan

119 / 119 pages

December, by Audrey Carlan

128 / 128 pages

READ ON DAY 2:

*click on picture for review*

  

Keep Me Safe, by Maya Banks

307 / 307 pages

In His Keeping, by Maya Banks

435 / 435 pages

Safe At Last, by Maya Banks

256 / 256 pages

READ ON DAY 3:

*click on picture for review*

With Every Breath, by Maya Banks

352 / 352 pages

READ ON DAY 4:

Absolutely nothing!

READ ON DAY 5:

The Darkest Hour, by Maya Banks

304 / 304 pages

READ ON DAY 6:

No Place To Run, by Maya Banks

35 / 352 pages

READ ON DAY 7:

 

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

61 / 180 pages

STATS:

Books Finished: 7

Currently Reading: 2

Pages Read: 1,921

Why ARC August sucked!?

I am a sad excuse of blogger. Or maybe life is too tough for me and is not letting me be a good blogger. Let's blame others instead of me, okay? XD

Back in July, I really wanted to come out my reading slump and now that August already past by, I am very down. I haven't read much at all (stuff for school doesn't not count, yet). I want to read, but I don't have the time or the best attention to actually read a book. This semester I am very full of schoolwork and work, persé, and I just can't. That makes me very sad and down, because I feel like I need that part of me that I can't have because life.

So, all that is why my ARC August sucked. BUT I did read an ARC. It was not in my TBR pile and it sort of appeared out of nowhere. I read it in three hours and its review will be up tomorrow with the Blog Tour. My wrap-up is only this book:

That's it. I hope your wrap-up is better than mine. I look forward for me to read more.

#TreesofReverieReadAThon [Wrap-Up]

TreesofReverie Read-A-Thon

June 25th - July 3rd, 2016 | Host by: Tress of Reverie

Goal: read as much I can

Realistic Goal: 2 books

Total Books Read: 0 books
Total Pages Read: 486 pages
GOAL FAILED!

Reading:

○ Lady Midnight, by Cassandra Clare [page 362]
○ F*cking Awkward, by Various Authors [page 124]

I feel so bad of not doing good in this readathon. My reading slump is getting out of control and I don't like that not one bit. Plus, I was at the beach and basically no one let me read in peace. Too much people bothering me with a lot of stuff. I read just 3 pages in all that weekend. I was away from my laptop and there wasn't Wi-Fi anywhere. Not my kind of vacations, for sure. Anyways, hope to do better next time around.

Bout of Books 16 [Day 6 + Day 7 + Wrap Up]

It ended, already, and I certainly not did well. I almost forgot about the read-a-thon per se at the beginning, but I did read a little this week, but I never caught up. I suck! I challenged myself to read eight books, so I definitely failed.. What the hell I was thinking? Really, bro.

Read Between Day 6 & 7:

 

Mister O, by: Lauren Blakely

15 / 300 pages

#Player, by: Cambria Hebert [RE-READ]

478 / 598 pages

Read Overall:

*click the picture for my review*

   

The Girl's Got Secrets, by: Linda Kage

426 / 426 pages

Taxi, by: Cambria Hebert

300 / 300 pages

#Nerd, by: Cambria Hebert [RE-READ]

472 / 472 pages

#Hater, by: Cambria Hebert [RE-READ]

492 / 492 pages

Total of Pages Read: 2,183
Total of Books Read: 4
GOAL FAILED!

Será para la próxima, amigos! Ciao!

#COYER Challenge Wrap-Up!

I challenged myself to read at least 25 books between December to March and I thought I might made it, which made me happy. I didn't know if that was going change that classes were going in full speed. But I guess I did not expect so much work from classes. Below, you will find a list of books I read these past months and the reviews I made for them. All these books were read on my iPad via iBooks or the Kindle app. Now, the list:

January Books:

1. Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, by April Genevieve Tucholke
2. Adulting, by Kelly Williams Brown
3. Surrender, by Quinn Loftis
4. Jewel of Darkness, by Quinn Loftis
5. Built, by Jay Crownover
6. Sweet Nothing, by Jamie McGuire & Teresa Mummert
7. Kiss of Broken Glass, by Madeleine Kuderick
8. In Flight, by RK Lilley
9. Mile High, by RK Lilley
10. Grounded, by RK Lilley
11. Lana, by RK Lilley
12. Endure, by Sara B. Larson
13. Happenstace, by Jamie McGuire
14. Bad Things, by RK Lilley
15. Pushing the Limits + Crossing the Line, by Katie McGarry
16. Liars, Inc., by Paula Stokes

February Books:

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
2. Sebring, by Kristen Ashley
3. When I Make You Mine, by Rae Daniel
4. Kindred Spirits, by Rainbow Rowell

March Books:

1. Status Update, by Annabeth Albert
2. 1980: You Shook Me All Night Long, by Casey L. Long
3. 1981: Jessie's Girl, by Lindy Zart

Febraury was tough with me and March started worse. Classes are being so annoyingly hard this semester. French never gave me much work and now I'm getting shit. Physics is being a pain in my ass and let's not talk about American Lit or Discourse and Grammar. Thank God, Advance Composition and Callgraphy are going easy with me. The number of books I read is not bad, but I did not reach the numer of books I wanted to read. DAMN! I still enjoy the challenge, tho. Better luck next year for me.

Bout of Books [Day 7 + Wrap-Up]

The Bout of Books Read-A-Thon is progressing and I think I'm doing a great job for now. My progress is being posted day by day and the challenges I participated too [Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - Day 5 - Day 6] and here will be posted the one for today.

 Read Day 1:

• Winter, by Marissa Meyer [150 pages]
• Surrender, by Quinn Loftis [81 pages]

Read Day 2:

• Winter, by Marissa Meyer [53 pages]
• Surrender, by Quinn Loftis [163 pages - finished]
• Jewel of Darkness, by Quinn Loftis [80 pages]

Read Day 3:

• Winter, by Marissa Meyer [621 pages - finished]
• Jewel of Darkness, by Quinn Loftis [0 pages]

Read Day 4:

• Jewel of Darkness, by Quinn Loftis [194 pages - finished]
• The Truth About Alice, by Jennifer Mathieu [7 pages]
• Built, by Jay Crownover [32 pages]

Read Day 5:

• Built, by Jay Crownover [368 pages - finished]
• The Truth About Alice, by Jennifer Mathieu [202 pages - finished]
• Steel Scars, by Victoria Aveyrad [100 pages - finished]
• Sweet Nothing, by Jamie McGuire & Teresa Mummert [13 pages]

Read Yesterday:

• Sweet Nothing, by Jamie McGuire & Teresa Mummert [307 pages - finished]
• Liars, Inc, by Paula Stokes [9 pages]
• Kiss of Broken Glass, by Madeleine Kuderick [39 pages]

Read Today:

• Liars, Inc, by Paula Stokes [11 pages]
• Kiss of Broken Glass, by Madeleine Kuderick [185 pages - finished]
• In Flight, by RK Lilley [143 pages]

Reviewed:

• Surrender, by Quinn Loftis
• Winter, by Marissa Meyer
• Jewel of Darkness, by Quinn Loftis
• Built, by Jay Crowonver
• The Truth About Alice, by Jennifer Mathieu
• Sweet Nothing, by Jamie McGuire & Teresa Mummert
• Kiss of Broken Glass, by Madeleine Kuderick

Total of Pages Read: 2759 pages

Total of Books Started: 9 books and 1 short-story

Total of Books Finished: 7 books and 1 short-story

Total of Books Reviewed: 7 books

It's sad that the Read-A-Thon end, but I had fun and I read a lot. So I guess I met the goals. See you for the next time, because believe that I'll be there. *waves*

Goals Met & Failures [2015 Book Challenges Wrap-Up]

You ALL know that I went very cray-cray-crazy with all the book reading challenges (which 2016 will be no exception, but in a lower scale). The thing is college was hard this year and some challenges were met, overpassed or flat failure. Check this out!

Dytopia Reading Challenge 2015

hosted by Cornerfolds

Status: FAILED!

Goal set: 24 books

Goal met: 14 books

I'm sorry, but dystopia wasn't for me this year. I will totally try next year, tho.

2015 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

hosted by Evie Bookish

Status: OVERPASSED!

Goal set: 150+ books

Goal met: over 250 books + rereads

I'm VERY proud of this challenge. I knew I would do it, but it was kind of hard with everything I had in my life going on. Still, doing the happy dance.

2015 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

hosted by Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book

Status: FAILED!

Goal set: 26 letters/books

Goal met: 25 letters/books

I'm ANGRY. Becuase this challenges becomes harder every year! This time around, the worst letter to fill was X. UGH!

2015 Contemporary Challenge

hosted by The Book Belles

Status: COMPLETED!

Goal set: 26 books

Goal met: 28 books

I almost didn't make it and I still wondering if the books I read fit in this challenge. But still, completed.

2015 Montly Key Word Reading Challenge

hosted by Bookmark to Blog

Status: FAILED!

Goal set: 12 words/books

Goal met: 10 words/books

I was SO close, but so far at the same time that is not even funny. So, yes, I failed... moving on.

365 Days of YA Reading Challenge

hosted by What Sarah Read & Literary Kate

Status: FAILED!

Goal set: 56 books

Goal met: 29 books

Can we NOT talk about this? Thank you.

2015 PopSugar Reading Challenge

Status: FAILED!

Goal set: 47 books

Goal met: 36 books

I knew I was going to failed, because some point weren't for me. BUT I tried.

SO YEAH! I only completed TWO challenges and failed the others and failed as a blogger, because well time. I will totally try to get better next year. Hopefully! So... did you completed challenges?