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    2017 | A Year in Books

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    I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who read 100 books (or more!) a year, and in 2017, I finally accomplished that goal! To be fair, I read a good number of graphic novels as well as a few short books of poetry, but I felt like I more than made up for it by suffering through my fair share of duds.

    Last year, I set a goal of reading 50 books so it was a total surprise that by the time August rolled around, I had already read over 100 books! I was on such a roll and then… I fell off the face of the Earth. It took me months to get back on track and re-establish my reading routine, but by the time December came, I finally started reading again. I couldn’t read anything too serious or too complicated at first — mostly just light reads or easily consumable thrillers — but it felt good to be reading again.

    The thing about reading so many books is that one realizes almost immediately which books rise to the top and which books should never have been published. A vast majority fall somewhere in the middle – books that are neither her nor there and/or are not memorable for either good or bad reasons. This was certainly the case this year. Most of the books I read were either just okay, meh, or very average.

    Here are the books I read this year that stood out from the pack, good and bad:

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    Books | My Summer Reading List

    I haven't updated this blog with my monthly book lists in a while partly because those posts are rather laborious to compose and also because I was boring myself. So let's…

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    Books of the Month | April

    Our main computer is currently under repair which has given me an excuse to fall behind with some of the blog posts that I had scheduled for this month, including this…

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    Books of the Month | March

    Somehow I managed to read 18 books this month? 18.5 if you count the book I half-way finished. The crazy thing was I hardly read at all the last two weeks…

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    Books of the Month | February

    This month, I read 12 books (including two graphic novels and one audio book). Not too shabby though I suspect my numbers will continue to drop as the year progresses. There…

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    Books of the Month | January 

    This month was a reading whirlwind for me, in part because I forgot to monitor my library holds list and as a result, all my books became available at the same…

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    2016 | A Year in Books

    Last year, I just barely accomplished my goal of reading 20 books, so this year I thought I'd challenge myself to read 25. I ended up blowing that number out of…

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    2015 | A Year in Books

    My reading goal this year was 20 books which does not include all the books I started and never got around to finishing either because my digital library loan ended before…