-January Wrap Up- I Wasn't Just Lollygagging Around!

It's February people! Now, I KNOW I am doing my January Wrap Up post on the first day of February but PLEASE don't pitch fork me or tie me up [unless you are Christian Grey then PLEASE tie me up] or you know...I saw everyone else doing this and knew it would be a great idea for me. I read A LOT of books so this way I can really keep track of my favorites for the month so by the time I get to the end of the year I can narrow down my lists and focus on books I KNOW I went crazy over.

This month was full of swoons, fists, major action[steamy sex and demon battles], and me being pretty much overwhelmed with KILLER endings. What a way to start off my year folks! First off, lets start with the books I read this month so you guys can see what I mean. In order of which I read them of course. My top five will be larger, so you know, they will stand out and all that jazz.

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:January Reads:

-Across The Universe [Across The Universe #1] by Beth Revis-

-Me@You.com by KE Payne-

-New Girl by Paige Harbison-

-Halflings [Halflings #1] by Heather Burch-

-Cross My Heart by Katie Klein-

-Exiled [The Protector #1] by M.R. Merrick-

-The Fault In Our Stars by John Green-

-Love & Leftovers by Sarah Tregay-

-Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown-

-Fifty Shades Freed [Fifty Shades #3] by E.L. James-

-My Soul To Lose [Soul Screamers #0.5] by Rachel Vincent-

-My Soul To Take [Soul Screamers #1] by Rachel Vincent-

-Breathe by Abbi Glines-

-On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves-

-Pandemonium [Delirium #2] by Lauren Oliver-

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Uh yeah, 15 books this month with a total of 4,164 pages read. Not to shabby people! Now, I also joined two challenges in the middle of this month. I am not very far [you know, it IS only February!] but here is what I have for those this month.

-Fifty Shades Freed [Fifty Shades #1] by E.L. James-

-My Soul To Lose-
-My Soul To Take-

I also started my first giveaway! In honor of gaining 50 followers not even a month into blogging I wanted to give a little back to all of you wonderful guys and gals! Click the pretty picture below to go enter if you haven't yet! It ends 2/15 so don't forget to get your name in!

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Well, that's it folks! Not much to report for the first month of 2012. I HAVE read some pretty outstanding books though, so that only makes me nervously anxious to see what else this year is going to bring. It's going to be pretty freaking insane! What do you think about my top five for this month? What were your top five reads this month? Leave me your own Wrap Up post or just comment below. I would love to see how you got your year started!

2012 New Adult Reading Challenge [Eeep!]

I have joined my first reading challenge of 2012! This is one I am compleatly and totally excited about!!
The 2012 New Adult Challenge
Hosted by Danya from over at A Tapestry of Words. I was so happy when I found this challenge, ever since I read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire last year I have been hooked on the whole college aged scene in books. That led me to read Thoughtless and Effortless  and a slew of other books by S.C. Stephens [if you haven't checked out those books you so should! Here is S.C. Stephens Goodreads page.] After that I moved on to Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James and have since read the second book to that series and am impatiently waiting for the third to be released. Okay, sorry, a bit of a rambler I am. My point here is I LOVE the whole New Adult thing.

The Rules/Details:

• The book must feature a protagonist who is past the average age for graduation from high school (18 in most places). If they're sitting on the fence at precisely age 18, then you can make the judgment call on whether it is more YA or New Adult. (If the majority of it is set in high school, I'd classify it as YA.) The protag should be younger than 30, just to give a maximum limit as well (otherwise we're getting into Not-So-New Adult literature!)

• This does *not* mean the book must be of the contemporary genre. If it's a fantasy or dystopian or something and there *is* no concept of "graduation" in that world, then just go by our world's standards in deciding if it counts. 

• The Levels:
• Just Graduated: read a minimum of 3 New Adult books
• Moving Out: read a minimum of 6 New Adult books
• Living On Your Own: read a minimum of 9 New Adult books
• Fully Independent: read every single New Adult book you can get your hands on

You interested?!
You can sign up here.
And don't forget to join the goodreads group here.

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My Progress:

I have chosen the Living On Your Own level. I may end up raising it to Fully Independent if I keep on devouring them like I have been, it is just a kind of wait and see kind of thing. [:

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