My Year in Books

I discovered a great website earlier this year called Goodreads. I had signed up for Goodreads a long time ago when it was a younger website, you might say, but left when I found it didn't have many images for books and was overall clunky.

In March of this year, Amazon reached an agreement with the site and acquired it, and right after that I signed up. For someone like me who likes lists, likes visualizations of things, and likes books it is a great site. It helps me keep track of my never-ending list of books I want to read, so next time I'm searching for a book or get a recommendation from a friend I'm not like 'Ugh, what was it again that I was wanting to read? What was that book called?' My tastes in books are all over the board, and since I don't lean to one genre over another it can be tough to choose what to read next without a list.

When I signed up, I then saw they had a "2013 Reading Challenge" and on a whim, I set a goal for myself of 10 books.  I'm happy to say I surpassed it, and I'm thinking about what next years goal should be. I started in April this year, so I'm thinking my goal for 2014 might be 14 books. If that's the case, I need to start reading again and quit playing QuizUp :)

As you can see, I had a bit of a 'dog book' trend, haha!