2016 Bingo Board Reading Challenge Review

I had 20 challenges on my bingo board for 2016 and I managed to do 15 of them. I am quite proud of that! You can see all of my reviews of the books I read here. 


At the beginning of the year I was killing it, crossing off books left, right and center, but towards the summer  I just seemed to peter out. I still read books, just not books from the bingo board. I think the reason for that was just that once I finished a book I would want to move on to the next one fairly quickly, but most of the books on the board I would have to get from the library and it would usually take a week or more for them to get them in. So I would just read something else, and once I finished that one, it would be the same palaver. 

Still, I managed to read quite a lot of the books/themes on my board and I am pretty happy with my results. I did also try to read one more theme, a vampire book, but I started a total of three (!) books and just didn’t care enough to finish them. So I almost feel like I can cross that one off too, because I sure did try. As for the other books I enjoyed most of them. I had tried to put on a few things out of my comfort zone like graphic novels and crime novels and I must say, I just got confirmed in my opinion that these were not something I really enjoyed. But I feel like I have given them a proper try now. And I did manage to find some authors and subjects that I will definitely be exploring further in the future. 


All together, I would say it has been a success having a challenge to keep my reading year interesting. So much so, that I have actually made a new Bingo Board for 2017. You can see it here. 

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