I signed up for this challenge last month, and if you click on the image above you can see my sign up post. My goal was to do about one a month, and so far I'm on top of that with my April post: It's In The Stars - Or Why I Don't Give Ratings On My Blog. I even have already come up with a discussion topic for May! It's fun to talk about these things, and then see what others think, as well as going and reading other blog's discussion posts.
Of course my next challenge I'm going to talk about is the one that I'm hosting. If you click on the image above, you can go see my sign up post, and you can still sign up yourself! Not only that, but those of you who have been participating already, or start in May, can go HERE, and add in links to your reviews for this challenge, and enter another giveaway! I have surpassed my goal of 4 new series, and have reached to 6 new series. And I don't think I'm done! Most of these are also authors that are new to me, and I am going to get to meet them in September at the NOLA Story Con. Here are my posts that meet this challenge from April:
- Losing It by Cora Carmack
- On Dublin Street by Samantha Young
- Calendar Girl Vol. 1 by Audrey Carlan
- Rule (Marked Men #1) by Jay Crownover
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
You can see my original sign up post HERE, and see how many I've signed up for again this year. I'm not doing as well with this challenge as others, I need to get caught up on this, maybe this summer.
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh - This book has been sitting on my TBR shelf since last year at this same time! It was one of them that was on my list in the sign up post though, so that is good.
My feedback ratio is still at 70%, and I've requested a few more unfortunately, but at least I'm keeping at 70% and not dropping. I've reached my goal number of 10 feedback for the year, but still working on the ratio. You can see my original sign up post for this HERE.
- Elementals 2: The Blood of the Hydra by Michelle Madow (7 days left on Giveaway)
- Flawed by Cecilia Ahern
- Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy Anstey (3 days left on Giveaway)
Okay, so we'll go through these one by one, and HERE is the original post of my resolutions.
- I'm doing better with the not downloading a ton of e-galleys. Still making note of them in my blog planner, and only going back and downloading them when it gets closer to time and I know I'm going to read them, unless of course it is one I know I have to read.
- I posted every single day this past month. One thing that is nice though, is that I did have some weeks where I was able to post for almost the whole week ahead of time, so I wasn't as stressed about it.
- But, because of the end of the school year getting busier, and probably all the posting I was doing, I don't feel like I got as much commenting done as I wanted.
- Still doing my monthly wrap up post, as you can see with this post!
- I have beat my goal of 2 reviews a week, with doing at least 3 each week! Yay me!
- Personal goals: No money saved, but I borrowed the money I needed from my mom to get my air conditioner fixed, so I'll just be paying her back over the summer, and it will be nice to not have to sweat in my house when the summer temps really get here! My new walking goal is to walk twice a week, and I've done that so far this month! This goal will be met in May, hopefully, and then my reward is to maybe upgrade to the new Alta Fitbit.
You can see my original sign up post for this challenge HERE. And I'll just say I've not done any this month. So far I've only done one this year. I've really got to get a move on this! I have The Raven King sitting on my shelf to read, I think I'm having trouble picking it up knowing that it will mean the end!
I think I'm going to get some writing done this summer, I may even add a goal for that next month, as a summer type of goal. I've got another story idea, plus a picture book that I want to finish and submit! I also have my NaNoWriMo from several years ago that I'm posting on Wattpad that I'd like to get finished this year as well, if you want to check it out so far, go HERE. I've decided that I kind of need a "me" vacation, where I go away from home, so not a staycation, but I also have no dogs and no family and no big plans. I used to go to a library conference every year in April, and that was always nice to be at a resort, and have the evenings to myself to write, or just be alone with no stress. I have a friend who has a cabin in Colorado, and she's offered to let me borrow it. So I just have to plan when I'd like to use it and see about getting it set up with her.
My April was pretty busy. How was your April?
