So since Christmas I have been very bad about writing anything. Sometimes I find myself in a writing funk and well this is one of those times! We had a great Christmas and like everyone it went by to quickly. Our whole family spent the morning at.Andrew and Meaghan’s . It’s the one house that has enough room for all of us and all the presents for everyone, particularly the two little ones!
Anyway everyone had a good time and I think all of the kids big and little liked their presents. I know I liked mine! I’ll write more about mine over the weekend.
Over the last week or so I did manage to finish two more books. That brings my total books read in 2016 to 53! Two more than last year, and only 7 from my goal! The two books I finished were: Runaway by Peter May and Reckless Creed from Alex Kava. Both were really good reads. Runaway is the third book written by Peter May that I read this year. That’s the most by any one author. I guess he is my new favorite. I will write more about each of these books separately shortly.
Here is the final tabulation of the books that I read for my various Reading Challenges!
Final Tabulation of My Reading Challenges
| 2016 Reading Challenges | TBR | Library | Total | Goal | % of Goal |
| 2016 Literature Reading Challenge | |||||
| General Fiction | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 50.00% |
| Classics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.00% |
| NY Times Bestseller List | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.00% |
| Award-Winners | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 50.00% |
| 2015 Mystery/Thriller Reading Challenge | |||||
| Rgrandad’s Mysteries | 4 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 300.00% |
| Women Mystery Book Authors | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 50.00% |
| 2016 Science Fiction /Fantasy Challenge | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 16.67% |
| 2016 Nonfiction Reading Challenge | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 110.00% |
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 53 | 60 | 88.33% | |||
| 2016 TBR Pile Challenge | 11 | 25 | 44.00% | ||
From the table we can see that I did well on both my Mysteries and Nonfiction challenges. That may be just a slight understatement as the books read for those two challenges accounted for 77% of the books I read in 2016! (41 out of 53) On three of the other challenges I read 50% of my projected total number of books.On the Science Fiction challenge I only read 1 out of 6. I didn’t read any classics!! Now it also says that I didn’t read any books from the New York Times Bestseller Lists. I believe that some of my mystery and thriller reads like books from Harlan Coben, Linwood Barclay, Jefferson Bass and Karin Slaughter probably spent some time on the bestseller lists!
Top Seven New Mysteries Read
I know that over the last few months when I went into Barnes & Noble I would see that I had read seven books that they had in their new release displays. They were:
- Without Mercy – Jefferson Bass,
- The Kept Woman – Karin Slaughter,
- The Twenty Three – Linwood Barclay,
- Home – Harlan Coben,
- The Second Life of Nick Mason – Steve Hamilton
- Blind Sight Carol O’Connor and
- Manitou Canyon – William Kent Krueger
Oh and one I just finished in the last few days Reckless Creed from Alex Kava Hmm, looking at the above list, I may just put together my top 15 list of 2016!
They were all terrific reads!! Check Them Out!!
So overall it was a great year of reading!! I am still in the process of developing my 2017 Reading Challenges and will possibly reveal them tomorrow! I think some of the Challenges will include reading more books from my own bookshelves and from e-books that are on my Kindle! So I will be back soon with my 2017 Reading Challenges and my proposed January reads!!
