Monthly recap: December 2019

I took it pretty easy in December – there was so much happening with the holidays that I really didn’t stress about reading, reviewing or blogging. The one thing I did learn is that once I stopped worrying about hitting my goals or reviewing books… I really had some great fun reading and just enjoying my books.

As I said, I just relaxed in December and didn’t stress about my reading goals and guess what? I managed to hit my Goodreads goal of 60 books in 2019! I actually had several months where I didn’t think I was going to make it.

I’m not sure why I was stressing so much about a number I arbitrarily made up for myself! The odd thing is that for some reason I set my goal higher this year. For the past several years, my annual goal has always been to read 50 books. For some reason I set it to 60 this year (probably because I was working full-time from home and thought I’d get more reading done – HAHAHA). So lesson learned – I’ll probably drop it back down to 50 for 2020.

Here are the books I read in December:

2019 GoodReads Challenge: 63/60

• [review] Katherine – Tudor Duchess by Tony Riches [blog tour]
• [review] The Course of All Treasons by Suzanne M. Wolfe
• [review] The Colonel and the Bee by Patrick Canning

I know that I should probably also do a wrap-up for the year, but since my 1-year blog anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks, I’ll most likely leave my year-wrap up post until then.

I have some fun things planned for this year (including a new cozy mystery challenge) plus some giveaways to celebrate my one-year of blogging so stay tuned for that!

Thanks for stopping by and happy reading in 2020!