2018 in Review

Wow, 2018 is over already? Where has the time gone?!

Thanks everyone for sticking with me! This is my second year here on Never Not Reading, and it’s been a truly fantastic one! While I’m a little sad that since mid-August my posts, especially discussion posts, have dropped off a bit, I’m very excited about my future as a librarian. And I super appreciate everyone who has kept reading, even when things got a little slow.

After all, I started this blog for reviews in the first place.

Top 10 of 2018

2018 has been my best ever year for books. NINE 5-star reads!!!

Check out my Top 10 blog post here.

Favorite Posts

Ranking Austen
Context Matters: Criticizing the Classics
Top 5 Most Romantic Moments in a Book
Male vs. Female Authors on my Bookshelf
Must Haves for a 5-Star Book
Why I Almost Never DNF a Book
#MotivationMonday
What to Read When You’re In-Between
How to Write a Great Book Review
A Broke Girl’s Guide to Bookstagram
Sorting Hat Sunday: Pride and Prejudice
How to Keep Your TBR Under 100
Social Media for Book Bloggers

Milestones and Awards

900 WordPress followers
1,100 Twitter followers
64 books read

Reviews

Fiction
Attachments
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
The Goldfinch
The Joy Luck Club

Sci-Fi/Fantasy
American Gods
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Artemis
Fuzzy Nation
The Girl in the Tower
The Goblin Emperor
Guards! Guards!
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Invisible Library
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Ninefox Gambit
Rosewater
Spinning Silver
Trail of Lightning
The Voyage of the Basilisk
The Wizard of Earthsea

Mystery
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Death by Dumpling
Hope Never Dies
Salt Lane

Historical Fiction
11/22/63
Bring Up the Bodies
Next Year in Havana
The Nightingale
Wolf Hall

Young Adult/Middle-Grade
Archenemies
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Bunnicula
Caraval
Children of Blood and Bone
Dread Nation
Geekerella
The Hate U Give
Illuminae
Inkheart
The Looking Glass Wars
My Plain Jane
The Rose & the Dagger
Ruin and Rising
Shadow and Bone
The Ship of the Dead
Siege and Storm
The Wrath & the Dawn

Non-Fiction/Memoir
And Now We Have Everything
The Energy Bus
Hamilton: The Revolution
Indianapolis

Calendar Girls

This year Adrienne at Darque Dreamer Reads and I have taken over the Calendar Girls blog event! I am so excited to be working with Adrienne and to get Calendar Girls up and running again. It is always one of the things I look forward to the most each month, and I’m so glad we’re doing it together. 🙂

August: Dog Days of Summer
Best Book Set in Summer

September: Back to School
Best Book Set in School

October: Hocus Pocus
Best Book about Witches

November: Not Quite the End
Best Middle Book in a Series

December: Let it Snow
Best Book Set in Winter