{Rules}

1) Include the above button in your post. 
2) Answer the 11 questions. 
3) Use as many book covers as you like.
4) Tag 5-10 people and notify them that they have been tagged. (since it's New Years Eve, I'm just going to say anyone who still has time and is a quick poster can have it)

// How many books did you read in 2016? (Exact if you know, or approximate if not.) 

// Did you set a reading challenge for yourself and, if so, did you meet it?  

Yep. I went for just 20. I THOUGHT that was a lot...but apparently T'isn't. So I met it earlier...and I would have passed it, but I didn't finish 4 books. So there's yer dinner.  The Emily series was my 3-book series of the year. 

                       

// What was your most read genre this year? Least read? 

(because this scene is my favorite)

// What's five of your favorite books from 2016? 

   

 

  

     

// What's five of your least favorite books from 2016? 

                      

Let's start off with Jane Eyre. I was excited to read this, and the writing style=beautiful. But for sensitive people like myself, this book was too close to a horror drama. Honestly, it was scary. Enough said. 

A Time to Die had me anxiously awaiting it from the library. When reading, I was immediately transported from my normal, 18th-19th century average read into a futuristic world full of ingenious science. It was so interesting and quickly-paced that I kept reading. I liked the book. But...I got to a section that, though maybe leading to some lesson or the other, just did not seem to justify itself with my conscience. It was slightly painful to set it down. Sometimes, however, you just have to do that.

Like with A Beauty so Rare. If you have read this, than you probably know how thick it is. Being a 'Christian' romance, I felt that it would be perfectly clean of what one might call 'worldly' attractions. But I soon learned that, though maybe just better for an older woman, it made me uncomfortable reading it. And I literally probably had less than a chapter left when I stopped (*head in hands*) Honestly it pains me to even say negative things about Christian authors. 

// What new favorite author did you discover? (Not necessarily that the author is 'new', but that they became new to you this year.)

 

JANETTE OKE. Yes...Love Comes Softly; okay, it was not only extremely relatable (and I mean I've never been in such a crazy situation, yet still it was relatable? Whaaa?) but also well-written, and adorable. I cherished the story...and hope to read more. *Bravo*. A WONDERFUL, real Christian love story. 

// What's five of your favorite book covers from the year? 

    

I don't know if you can tell, but Julie of the Wolves had a pretty well-done cover, with a pastel feel to it that really drove the book's storyline home. Emily of New Moon had that cover that just symbolizes breezy, balmy July days, when you have no cares but about yellow buttercups and the font in old dusty books. Where the trees wave to you and the birds sing to you. At least something like that to me; maybe it has another purpose. And I think At the Altar is pretty obvious with it's painted beauty and romance.

// How many books did you purchase for yourself in 2016? (Exact if you know, approximate if not.) 

One? Two? Goodness the thrifttore and library are my friends.

// What's the longest book you read in 2016? 

(Oh goodness it's too much)

Little Women with around 450 pages. AND IT WAS ALL WORTH IT. THE EMOTIONS IN THIS BOOK cannot properly be expressed. Everything is so realistic! Ahh!!!! 

If your wondering...it's Jo & Laurie forever. My want-to-be book friends. 

// What's the shortest book you read in 2016? 

A very old book that I read because it was very old...Sella, Thanatopsis, and other poems by William Cullen Bryant.

// What's your reading goal for 2017? 

YOUR top readings for 2016?Have you hopelessly cried over Little Women?Have we any books in common?