Berls @ Fantasy is more fun and I are recapping 2016
and looking ahead to 2017, for the next 12 days.
Feel free to join us!
I’ll be sharing highlights month-by-month and giving you a peak at what’s ahead in 2017.
out with the OLD: 2016
This month I was delusional, I still thought I was coming out of a slump and we all know I was not but this month I realized something I had forgotten…again. Catching up is more stressful than moving forward so this month I realized that missing a post or two isn’t the end of the world and other bloggers who have family, jobs and other hobbies know that real life sometimes gets in the way so missing a post or two on one or two days…even a week, isn’t going to be the end of your blog. You might lose a few followers but the loyal ones know and will stay around…so…
in with the NEW: 2017
I figured I would stop trying to catch up and just move forward….two weeks forward to be exact. I want to try to keep the blog ahead by two weeks so that I am not always stressed, I don’t have tons to do and can spend the time on family, jobs and other hobbies without worrying if I have to finish a post. Easier said than done? Probably but 2017 I plan to try to keep up because I suck at visiting friends also but more about that later in the year.
Posts in January ~ 28 post this month
Books I read this month ~ 5 books read
Wanna read the synopsis for some of these? click HERE to see my March Shelf on Goodreads.
Books I reviewed this month ~ 5 books reviewed
- [3 Mar] City of Legend by Cheyanne Young ★★★★★
- [7 Mar] Jeremy (Broken Angel #4) by L.G. Castillo ★★★★
- [10 Mar] Nocturnes by Sarah Dalton ★★★★½
- [10 Mar] Haunt Me (Mary Hades Book 4) by Sarah Dalton ★★★★½
- [14 Mar] The Pirate Who's Back in Bunny Slippers by Annabeth Bondor-Stone, Connor White, Anthony Holden ★★★★½
- [21 Mar] The Deal (Off-Campus, #1) by Elle Kennedy ★★★★★
- [24 Mar] The Mistake by Elle Kennedy ★★★★
- [26 Mar] Uprooted by Naomi Novik
My Favorite Book this month:
This series turned out to be one of my favorites and it’s so cute. Great read for middle grade or younger. Stitch Head is such a cute characters. Need to read the last two in the series, I can’t wait to get them 🙂
What are you looking forward to in 2017?
Thanks for stopping by to Check out my recap of 2016 and what’s to come in 2017
Have a great day and Happy Reading!
ox
I hope you can remain ahead of the game this coming year! I really want to try that Stitchhead series it looks so cute. 🙂
Me too, Stichhead is so cute, I still need to get the last two. 🙂
My goal is to be 2 weeks ahead too. That was my goal last year and I did pretty good at the beginning but then slacked off as time went on. I had to go out of town unexpectedly back in November and REALLY could have used that buffer. The visiting everyone is so hard! I don’t want to miss out but at the same time some days it just isn’t possible. Hope you can avoid the slump next year!
I have a feeling I might slack too which is why I made it one of my bookish Resolutions so I can hold myself accountable 🙂
I agree, it is hard to visit everyone, a few months back I tried to visit at least 5 blogs a week or 3 blogs every other day. It worked out pretty good but stuff got weird at home and I never caught up. I hope to get back to visiting again, I miss all my bloggy friends posts 🙂
I really need to to start typing up posts in advance too. I did a challenge recently where you were supposed to get 30 posts on stand-by for your blog and I only did about half that. I hope you are able to do the blogging ahead throughout the year. I’m sure it will be nice to not have to worry about typing up posts every day.
Was the challenge Blog Ahead with Herding Cats and Burning Soup? I love that challenge, i didn’t get a lot done but I did get a lot drafted and felt like I accomplished a lot 🙂
I agree, would love the chance to be less stressed with posts already scheduled ahead of time, would give me more time to visit blogs too if I was.