PopSugar Challenge update and looking ahead to next year!

Well, there are now 5 full days left in 2018.  It's hard to believe.  This year has flown by.  So far this year I have read 114 books, and hope to finish at least 3 more in the next 5 days.  Two of those are needed to complete this year's PopSugar Challenge.  I really enjoyed my first year of the PopSugar Challenge.  I did discover some books I other wise wouldn't have read.  Here is what I have finished this year.  I am currently reading A Time for Everything by Brona Mills for the time travel prompt, and Lies: Ann Putnam Jr's Recounting of the Salem Witch Trials by Oliver Dahl for the ancestry prompt.  I sure hope I can finish them both by Monday night.

Tuesday is the beginning of a new year.  Hopefully 2019 will be just as productive of a reading year as 2018 was, maybe even better.  When I started preparing for the 2018 PopSugar Challenge I spent the weeks leading up to it finding books that fit each category. Then as 2018 went on, I ended up changing many of the selections I had made due to time constraints, book club reads, or ARCs that fit those prompts.  So for the 2019 challenge I am doing it a bit differently.  I have selected several books that I already own and need to read that fit into several of the prompts.  The rest of the prompts I will see how my reading falls.  I am thinking that around June I will start searching, and working on finding books that fit prompts I haven't filled.    Here is a link to the spreadsheet I use to track my progress on the challenge.

PopSugar Challenge Worksheet

As a personal challenge to myself, in 2019 I am going to slow down a bit on ARCs, and focus on tackling my TBR pile.  I have won several books this last year through Goodreads giveaways, Amazon giveaways, and giveaways on Facebook.  I also have several books on my Kindle that I picked up for free on Amazon.  So I am going to work my way through my ginormous pile of owned, but unread books.  In all reality this is going to take me more than a year, but I am going to work on these before acquiring new ones.  I will still sign up for the occasional ARC, and I plan to include buddy reads for my book club #RBUT.

The most important plan going into 2019, is focus on reading what fits my mood.  So I wish you all a wonderful end to 2018, and a happy start to 2019.  May 2019 bring you lots of good books to soothe your soul.

As always, keep reading, and let me know if you find a book that absolutely must be read!!!!