#ShelfLove 2017 - May Check-In

Welcome to May! I'm not entirely sure where the time has gone but figured an update was better late than never! I'm completely lost by what I've read or what I should be reading thanks to a fair bit of traveling over the last month or so...

My #ShelfLove total has increased by 14 this month, taking me up to 51 books in total. This still means though, that I'm going to struggle to reach my target of 180 by the end of the year. What's not helping is the fact that I'm requesting lots of library books to try and stop myself buying books and of course they have to be read within a certain period of time, which can be quite restricting... In June and July, I think I'm going to try to not request any, especially as July is ComicCon time!!!

Aims

• Read at least 15 of my own books a month - they have to have been on my shelves up to and including December 2016
• For every 15 books read I'm allowed to buy 3 brand new books
• For every 20 books donated to either charity or the library, I can buy 2 new books

Progress

 

Read - 26

Own - 18

Kindle -1

Library - 7

 

TBR Challenge - 14

Review -

 

 #ShelfLove Target - 51/180

Wishlist - 2644
TBR (Still not accurate) - 1531

Goodreads Challenge Update

Bookish In April!

Books Read

YA 12
Childrens 7
Adult 16

Own 11
Kindle 5
Library 19

Grand Total 35

Favorite Books of the Month

Yes, I finally read Cinder! And Poison! Taking part in the read-a-thon last month was a huge boost and I actually felt like reading one book after another.

Reviews

The Looking Glass - Jessica Arnold

Of Breakable Things - A Lynden Rolland

Blog Tours

The Wizard's Promise - Cassandra Rose Clarke

Physical Books Bought In April

Between Two Ends
Nearly Gone
Dorothy Must Die
The Winner's Curse
Equal Rites
Wyrd Sisters
The Night Itself
In the Land of Time
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Fahrenheit 451 Collectors Edition
Unwrapped Sky

Only 11 books in April, just about half of what I bought in March!

Waiting On

Impatiently waiting for one of two new Juliet Marillier books this year, a debut fantasy, a sequel with high expectations and my Bloody Mary Special! 

Cover Reveals

Shadows Fall Away

The Night House

Crown of Ice

Events

I met Harlan Coben! There are pictures, somewhere, but I need to track them down. He was lovely, very happy for people to take pictures and to chat!

Can't Wait To Read In May

Blackfin Sky | City of Heavenly Fire | House of the Rising Sun

Challenge Updates

Goodreads - 139/365

According to Goodreads I'm seventeen books ahead of schedule, it's all down to logging the books I read with Em & Fred. Counting just my books I think I'm around 100.

Fairy Tales Retold 1/16

I finally got round to starting the Lunar Chronicles by reading Cinder and although I started Sarah Pinborough's fairy tale retellings by reading the first book, Poison it doesn't count because the challenge is for YA/MG books only.

TBR Pile 2014 Challenge 14/50

My official target is 50 as that's the highest level of the challenge. I'm aiming for 200+ though as I'm trying to donate as many books to the library as possible this year - every little helps, especially with all the cuts and closures. I should start adding a running total of donated books too. Too late for this month but definitely in May's round-up! This is a lot lower than I thought as a lot of the books that I've been reading from 2013 or before have been library books and therefore not technically on my TBR pile. I have read 14 books that I own but if I include library books it's around 25.

2014 Series Challenge 3/12

I thought I was doing badly on this one but I have a lot of 'last books' to read so hopefully I should be able to hit 12 by the end of the year

ARCs In April

 So, yet again I'm snowed under with e-ARCs from Netgalley and Edelweiss! A while back I managed to get my virtual review pile under control but there are so many fabulous books that I can't help but request and/or download it's got to the point where I need to do something about it again...

Thanks to my love of alliteration I came up with ARCs In April! Between April 1st and April 30th I'm going to read nothing but ARCs. Hopefully this will make a significant dent in my pile so I can stop feeling guilty about all the wonderful books that I have requested/downloaded, stop feeling guilty about reading books that aren't ARCs and increase my percentage on Netgalley again...

I'm not going to put a figure on how many books I'm going to read, I always seem to fail when I do that but given how many I have to read I'm going to try and aim for a minimum of three a week. Feel free to join if you too have gone crazy clicking those 'request' or 'download' buttons, it would be great to have some support. I'll put up a post on April 1st with a list of books I'm hoping to read, if you feel like joining in leave a comment and I'll start a list :)