I think I was too ambitious and had planned to read about 60 books including the Popsugar regular challenge. By the end of January I was lagging behind the schedule. My reading took a hit when I had to juggle reading with some other. There was a slump for about four months. By August I was way behind to recover. Still I tried to complete as much as possible and ended the year with 43 books. Out of the 40 books in Popsugar regular challenge, I finished 26 of the criteria. 65% completion rate is not so bad after all!!
Below is
the list of prompts I completed
I went beyond my favourite genre and took chances on new authors due to some overwhelming reviews. There were many surprises and a few disappointments. My top 5 books in no particular order for the year would be
1. The Man Called Ove
2. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
3. The Book Thief
4. The Help
5. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Eat, Pray, Love and Where'd You Go, Bernadette were disappointing in-spite of the raving reviews I read. I wish I could have read Becoming by Michelle Obama. It is still in my TBR (the ever-growing list).
Please find the list of all the books I took up for 2019 in the link below
This Year was comparatively short in numbers but that's okay. I have attempted some books which I normally would not pick up at all and I found some gems.
What's next? This year I have created my own reading challenge and you can find the details here. In 2020 I am going to attempt the Popsugar advanced reading challenge. It has 10 prompts only, so I think I can do it. I have lined up the books already and aiming for 35 in total. Also I am going to include Tamil books in them. Hoping for a good reading year.
As usual, I pledge to be regular on updating the blog.
Happy Reading Folks!!
