Lili's 2022 Reading Challenge

[Brittany]

Awesome Lili!! Such a great reading month for you. Keep loving that reread!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

In October I read 6 novels, 2 novellas, and 1 comic book, for a total of 9 books and 2384 pages. That's about 700 pages less than last month. But last month was a bit of an outlier since I did A LOT of re-reading 😅 This month I only ended up re-reading 2 books.



Of the 9 books, 6 were adult, 1 YA, and 2 MG. And 4 were horror, 4 urban fantasy, and 1 mystery thriller.

[Brittany]

Nice Lili! Yay for horror mermaids! Going to read more of Mira Grant's (Seanan McGuire) stuff?

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Definitely!! I really enjoyed Into the Drowning Deep, and I am very intrigued by Feed. I'll have to look through her books to see what else catches my attention.

[Brittany]

I definitely think you should read Feed. I love everything she writes, if you're looking for a fun different UF series try only series I wouldn't recommend starting with is Ghost Roads.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Oooh that sounds good! Thanks!

[Brittany]

You're welcome! Her October Daye series is also fab but I like Incryptids better.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

In November I read 7 books, 2 of which were re-reads, for a total of 2506 pages. That's about 200 pages more than I read in October!



4 books were part of a series, and 3 standalones.

5 were 5-star reads, 1 book 4-stars, and 1 book 3-stars, so it was a really good reading month overall!

All were from female authors, 5 books from authors I've read before, and 2 new-to-me authors.

5 were adult books and 2 YA, 3 sci-fi, 2 urban fantasy, and 2 contemporary romance. Contemporaries, shocking, I know. Lol.

Another shocking stat: while 6 were ebooks, 1 was an audiobook! I don't tend to read audiobooks because my mind wanders and I miss things and it's just annoying. Lol. BUT I ended up listening to my audiobook of Spider's Trap, which was fine in this case because this was a re-read so if my mind wandered it was no big deal because I've read this book before. Lol.

[Brittany]

Awesome stats Lili! How was Better than the movies?
Very surprising about the audiobook!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Right? I totally get the appeal of audiobooks because you can just be doing things while listening, and I think re-reads/re-listens for me might be the way to go with audiobooks.

Better than the Movies was cute! I really enjoyed it! I think I liked The Do-Over a little more, but they were both really fun and cute.

[Brittany]

Yay for fun and cute.
For sure, rereads is how I started with audios originally too

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

That's also how I started with audios Lili. I used to be the same where my mind would wander so I used to only do it for re-reads as, like you said, it didn't matter. Now almost 1/3 of my reading is done via audio.

[Gord]

I had the same issue with my mind wandering while listening to audiobooks. I started listening to them while going for walks and now I'm hooked and I listen to at least one audiobook a week depending on the length.

[Jo]

I started listening to audiobooks mostly on my morning commute to work on the bus and I've never looked back: now I listen on my weekly runs and when walking around basically anywhere as well as when I'm on public transport. I've always liked listening to something when walking though so it wasn't too much of a shift to go from music/podcasts to audiobooks.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

So I may have found the gateway to audiobooks because I listened to another one in December that was also a re-read. Lol.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

In December I read 5 books and 1 novella, for a total of 1591 pages.



2 were 5-star books, 2 were 4-star books, and 2 were 3-star books
2 were adult and 4 YA
2 sci-fi, 4 mystery thrillers
4 ebooks, 1 hardcover, 1 audiobook

[Brittany]

Awesome Lili! rereads area great on audio. Best book of the month?

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

I really enjoyed both Wrong Place Wrong Time and Four Found Dead. Both mystery thrillers, but one adult and one YA, and the former has the added time loop aspect which is always fun. Lol.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

For anyone who's interested, I posted my reading stats on my blog: https://lili-lost-in-a-book.blogspot.... There's about a million graphs and charts, sorry not sorry 😆

[Brittany]

Fun graphs and stuff Lili! The series started vs finished, ouch! But it happens to us all. Also wow that you read nothing published before 2010!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Yeah, this was a weird year where I didn't read anything before 2010. I usually do! But no R.L. Stine in 2022, surprisingly! Yeah finishing series i really struggled with! Hopefully I'll do better this year, but who knows what my mood will be like lol

[Elena]

Wow, I just love your blog 🤣

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Thanks! 😅