Happy New Year, Everyone!!

I hope you’ve all had a fantastical and memorable (mostly) ringing in of 2016! ^__^ And for those of you who don’t really remember much of the night, but had fun anyway? *high-five* 🙂

Now, in light of the New Year, I’ve decided to commit to a few reading challenges I’ve found to help encourage me to get through some books I’ve had, but I haven’t been able to get too. And what I like about the three challenges I’ve found is that they actually cover the mix of books I’ve wanted to read but have not been able to make time for.

Such as, ARCs (ebooks mostly), purchased books and a few audiobooks. I’ve listened to a few audiobooks before, but I’ve always preferred physical to audiobooks because I guess having someone else in my head telling a story freaks me out a bit? [Or at least that’s what the voices in my head tell me 😉 ]

In all seriousness, I’ve recently discovered the joy and comfort of audiobooks and the flexibility they offer. I’m reading screenplays nearly everyday (on a laptop) and just over this past year, I’ve noticed an increase of strain on my eyes. The discomfort is so intense sometimes that I can’t properly focus on reading actual physical copies of documents or books.

The audiobooks help to ease that strain on my eyes and allow me to still enjoy a book even when I need to rest my eyes. Now, for all the avid audiobookers out there, I’m sure this is in no way a monuments revelation to you, but give a girl a break here :-D.

With my rambling out of the way, let’s get to those challenges 🙂

The First, is Bookish Lifestlye‘s 5th Annul TBR Reading Challenge

My intended level for this challenge is: 11-20 A Friendly Hug.  My list is below, but it’s a random list that I might change later (as with the other lists as well):

1. Thank You, Goodnight by Andy Abramowitz
2. Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
3. The Other Son (Brinkmann Trilogy #2) by Alexander Soderberg
4. Orient by Christopher Bollen
5. It Started with Paris by Cathy Kelly
6. I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter
7. Hostile Takeover (John Lago Thriller #2) by Shane Kuhn
8. Hard Love (Hacker #5) by: Meredith Wild
9. Friction by Sandra Brown
10. Demon Within (Silver Legacy #2) by Alex Westmore
11. Deceptions (Cainsville #3) by Kelley Armstrong
12. The Blessings by: Elise
13. 3volve By: Josefina Gutierrez
14. Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
15. Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda By: Becky Albertalli
16. The Shadow of Loss By: Josefina Gutierrez
17. Half-Breed Queen (Skatia Narratives #1)By: L.A. Hendricks

The Second, is The YA Book Traveler’s RockmyTBR challenge:

Which will consist of TBR books I own/bought that were/will not be published in 2016, but haven’t gotten to yet:

1. Greywalker (Greywalker #1) by Kat Richardson
2. Eat, Pray, Love by: Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) By Kristin Cashore
4. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by: Mindy Kaling
5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, & Madness at the Fair that Changed America by: Erik Larson
6. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of Lusitania by: Erik Larson

The Third, is The Book Nympho & Hot Listens’ Audiobooks Challenge:

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