Well, for starters Happy 2015 everyone 
December was a total bust of a month for me reading and blogging wise so this wrap up is going to be fairly short and sweet! Christmas was lovely as was my vacation and Nick I had a great time relaxing and spending time together. I also watched Divergent, which I was pleasantly surprised to see that I really liked it AND Gone Girl, which surprisingly I did NOT like. It was actually a total flip-flop to what I thought were going to be the outcomes of the movies, so that was a nice surprise! I also starting watching Parenthood, which I am totally obsessed with right now. How I didn’t know about this show before now is beyond me, but gosh, I love it. AND I started knitting and crocheting again. Well knitting again, and learning to crochet. Which is fun and I’m having fun learning new things. I’m almost done my first ear warmer/headband so that’s exciting!
Anyway, see… it was pretty boring in December haha so onto the wrap up!
*Click for review. Non reviewed reads link to Goodreads.
Suspicion by Alexandra Monir ★★★★
Snow Angel Cove by RaeAnne Thayne ★★★★
Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Lyla Payne ★★★★
So even though I kind of had a crap reading month amount-wise, I totally had a good reading month with the quality of the books
I decided I didn’t want to talk about all the challenges I didn’t complete I did complete a few of my goals, The Review Pile Challenge and The Prequel and Sequel Challenge but I didn’t completely tally everything and threw up hands up and said, MEH! 2015 is going to better and I already have everything organized with a better system so in the next wrap up folks 
I participated in the tour for Suspicion by Alexandra Monir. I really, really enjoyed this book and I absolutely flew through it!
I didn’t participate in all of the Top Ten prompts this month but I did post my Ten New-to-Me Authors in 2014, and ten goals and resolutions of 2015. I also posted my top ten favorite books of 2014 for the week of top ten event (even though I posted it a day late… oops!).
I participated in the cover reveal for Whispers from the Dead by Karen Ann Hopkins! I was so excited to participate in this and see the cover, I am in LOVE with this series so far and I cannot wait to read it this month!
I posted quite a few reviews for books I had read prior to November this month: Red at Night by Katie McGarry, This Christmas by Katlyn Duncan, and My True Love Gave To Me.
I got a crazy exciting amount of books this month for Christmas and otherwise!
Books & Reading
- My Audiobook Experience by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit at Oh, The Books!
- The Hardest Decision You’ll Ever Make in Your Life at Readers in Wonderland
- When You Don’t Reach Your Goodreads Goal at Boricuan Bookworms
- Do You Support the Art or the Artist? by Brittany @ Book Bumblings at Oh, The Books!
- DNSing at Somewhere Only We Know
- Book Tropes at Bookmark Lit
- My Trouble with YA Trilogies at Once Upon a Chapter
- When Mood Reading Attacks at The Thousand Lives
- Top 10 Reactions & Thoughts I Have While Reading at Bookmark Lit
- On Forcing Myself to Read at Writer Grrl Reads
Bookish Fun & Misc
- Book Nerd Social Interaction Problems at Parajunkee
- Sometimes I Watch the Movie/TV Show First at Snuggly Oranges
- Bookish Guides: Middle Grade for YA Readers at Oh, The Books!
- Stop Saying that Zoella “Outsold J.K. Rowling!” at Nose Graze
- Advanced Guide to Managing TBR Piles at Word Revel
- TBR in Possession at Somewhere Only We Know
Blogging Help & Design Posts
- My WordPress Plugins (Most of them Free) at Bee Splendid
- How I Make Gifs at Nerdette Reviews
- Want to Make it Snow on Your Blog? at Lite-rate-ture
- How to Style the WordPress Visual Editor at Nose Graze
- If Statements in Blogger at These Paper Hearts
- Customize Post Headings at These Paper Hearts
- Steps to Becoming a More Productive Blogger at Of Spectacles & Books
- Getting on Tsu & Making It Work For You at Parajunkee
- Requesting From NetGalley/Edelweiss at Somewhere Only We Know
- The Worst Blogging Advice People Have Given Me at Parajunkee
Blogging & Reviews
- I’m Terrified of People I Know in Real Life Finding My Blog at The Nerdy Journalist
- Are There Reviewing “Rules?” at Pages Unbound
- I Have (Unintentionally) Stopped Giving Books 1 Star by Book.Blog.Bake
- Relativity of Book Reviews at Word Revel
- How Do You Write Book Reviews? at The Thousand Lives
- The Seasonal Blogger and Misconceptions at These Paper Hearts
- Sometimes I Just Don’t Feel Like Writing Reviews at BookShelfery
Social Media, Commenting & Misc Blogging Related Posts
- How to Know When to Charge at Nose Graze
- It’s Easy to Assume Custom WordPress Projects are Cheap at Nose Graze
- Books on Screen: Photographing ebooks and Audiobooks at Word Revel
- Do Authors Think I’m a Creeper at The Library Canary
- How Blogging Changed My Life at The Daily Prophecy
I didn’t have as much time to collect blog links this month so unfortunatly I don’t have a lot to share. Next month though, back to business as usual how was your December? Are you excited for 2015? Link up!
Hey, thanks for mentioning my blog here! I’m the same as you; I’ve decided to change my reading style to get to my goals this year!
Your welcome Marianne
I didn’t ever want to change my reading style because I’m such a creature of habit but, I realized I have to in order to get things accomplished!
I was pleasantly surprised by how good Divergent was! Have you seen the trailer for Insurgent yet? I don’t know how I feel about that…
Sometimes quality is better than quantity when it comes to reading! (It’s actually what I prefer to be honest. Reading lots of crappy books is not fun :/ )