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The Reading Challenge

At the start of the year there were two reading challenges I committed myself to The Goodreads Reading Challenge where you will decide how many books you can read for the year. The other one I got from my cousin but upon searching in Google it's a Popsugar Reading Challenge. I must have underestimated my annual calendar because I challenged my self to red 50 books in Goodreads. I thought "50 books? Oh that's nothing, I have all the time in the world." And guess what? It's mid of November and here's my reading challenge.
Apparently I didn't plan on being too busy during mid year but I'm not complaining I just didn't expect it to be like that. Still, I'm happy to I have read 25 books so far. And these are mostly YA books. What's with YA anyway? Am I old to be reading it? But that's another blog entry I suppose. I am happy to discover new authors that I will sure follow (Sarah Haas, Cassandra Rose Clarke) and the likes. With these 25 books there are only 2 suspense/thriller books I read. This is because in the Popsugar challenge I needed to read a suspense/mystery book and it turned out well because Girl on the Train is such a good read. First time authors like Nicola Yoon and Sandy Hall kept me entertained and left marks in stomach due to the butterflies flying around it when I was reading. Lady Chatterley's Lover was a different case, I needed to read a classic romance and I found out that Richard Madden is doing a  TV-Movie of it, so it was decided though very sudden that I will read it.
I am such a fan of reading and I thought that having to take these challenges gave me direction in reading. Although randomly selected books re also fine. But it gave me goals to look forward to when deciding what to read.

 Last month of the year is fast approaching and I am hoping I can squeeze in a few more books and hopefully its in a genre I haven't tried before to keep my collections vast and my knowledge wise. 
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