(Another) Update on my TBR Challenge

Oh what’s that Kelly? An overdue update on your TBR challenge? It’s about time.

You’re right. It is. But I have been putting this off for one simple reason.

I failed my TBR challenge.

For those of you that don’t know or have forgotten, here’s a brief reminder. On June 8th 2018, I published this post in which I pledged to read the 36 books (pictured above) left on my TBR by the 31st December 2018. Well, the 31st December has come and gone and I still haven’t managed to complete the challenge. Even though I managed to read 89 books in 2018, I didn’t manage to get to the 36 that I pledged to.

For those of you that need a reminder, here are the books that I challenged myself to read:

1. Pacts and Conjurations
2. Encounters
3. Know your Place
4. The Robber Bride
5. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. The Other Life
8. Going Postal
9. Coffee
10. The Famished Road
11. Truth Sister
12. White Rabbit, Red Wolf,
13. Bone Surfers
14. A Sky Painted Gold
15. Fragments of the Lost
16. Night of the Lightbringer
17. On Writing
18. The Coffin Path
19. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
20. The Witch’s Blood
21. I Stop Somewhere
22. Children of Blood and Bone
23. Clean
24. The Blind Assassin
25. Cinder
26. Tender is the Night
27. How to be both
28. Crooked Kingdom
29. Persephone
30. The Song Rising
31. Troublemakers
32. Uprooted
33. The truth and lies of Ella Black
34. Bygone Badass Broads
35. The Hazel Wood
36. Alias Grace

The ones in bold are the titles that I managed to get to. I managed to read 18/36 that I intended to meaning that I well and truly failed this challenge. However, I am trying not to beat myself up about it. If you’ve read my post on my ‘resolution’ for 2019, you’ll know that I was very hard on myself in 2018 and I have decided to change that this year! I may have failed my challenge but I also managed to read 18 books that I had been ignoring for too long. That has got to count for something…right?

Kelly x