End of the Year Insane Genre Challenge Update: LAST ONE!! :D

So I know that I haven't done a genre challenge update since early October. OOPS. However, I have been hard at work trying to complete the challenge. I was feeling overwhelmed with trying to finish, but I'm thrilled because I will be finishing tonight! 

This challenge has been pretty difficult at times, but I loved it. I'm glad I pushed myself to read some genres that aren't my go to genres. I'm pretty open as far as genres go, but I do get stuck in the same ones sometimes. So tonight I'm finishing my last book, no matter what, and then I will be done. WOOT WOOT! 

Next year I'm hoping to take it a bit easier and not do a challenge like this. My goal next year will be to get back to blogging again regularly and to work on my writing regularly. Speaking of, if you're interested in poetry I started a new DeviantArt account and I posted a few of my poems there.  Here's the link: AngelErin30

I wish anyone else who's doing this challenge the best of luck completing before the year is over!  Here's the complete list of books I read: 

Adventure- The Hobbit

Autobiography-How to Make Love Like a Porn Star

Chick- LIt- PS I Love You

Children's- Sword of Summer

Classics- Of Mice and Men

Contemporary- One True Loves

Steampunk- The Aeronaut's Windlass

Dystopian- Reached

Epic- A Wizard of Earthsea

Erotica- Bared to You

Espionage- Heist Society

Fantasy- The Crown's Game

Graphic Novel- The Doll's House

Gothic-The Birds and other stories

Historical- Code Name Verity

Horror- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Humor- You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

Literary- Little Paris Bookshop

Magical Realism- The Night Circus

Mystery- Sanctuary Bay

Non-Fiction- Bossypants

Paranormal- Onyx

Philosophical- Anthem (Finishing tonight)

Poetry- The collected poetry (sylvia plath) 

Pulp- Strangers on a Train

Romance- Me Before You

Sci-Fi- City of Mirrors

Educational- Stiff

Short Stories- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Thriller- You

Travel- Into Thin Air

True Crime- Stranger Beside Me

Urban Fantasy- Iced

Victorian- The Picture of Dorian Gray

Western- The Gunslinger

YA- Looking for Alaska 

That's 36 genres total and on top of all my other reading for the year it's been a lot! I think I'll pass on challenges for 2017, but I'm curious what challenge(s) are you doing next year?

Insane Genre Challenge Update #6

So far I've read 18 out of 36 Genres for this challenge. Woo hoo! However, I only read two books for it this past month and one book the month before. I still think I'm doing okay though. I'm not really sure at all since I haven't done a challenge like this before this year. I'm halfway done though! 

Books Read Last Month: 

The Crown's Game- Fantasy 

The Sword of Summer- Children's Book 

Currently Reading: 

The City of Mirrors- Science Fiction 

Up Next: 

I don't think I'll read all of these this month, but hopefully in the next two months I can get these read. 

Sanctuary Bay- Mystery

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams- Short Stories 

You're Never Weird On The Internet- Humor

The Little Paris Bookshop- Literary Fiction

The Stranger Beside Me- True Crime

The Birds & Other Stories- Gothic

While I'm not super pleased with my progress, I'm hoping to pick up the pace a little during the summer months. For anyone doing the challenge, how is it going for you? If you're doing any challenge, how is it going for you? Is anyone else struggling a little with their challenge(s)? I feel like I sure am! :P 

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Insane Genre Challenge Update #5

Well this is going to be a very short update. I'm sad to say that I only read 1 book in April for this challenge. That was The Picture of Dorian Gray for the Victorian Genre, which I will be posting a review for. Eventually. 

I did start two books for the genre challenge already this month though. The Crown's Game for the Fantasy genre and The Sword of Summer for the Children's genre! 

While I am not pleased by my progress lately, I have read a total of 16 out of 36 books for this genre so far. It's getting really difficult for me to juggle the challenge as well as other books that need to be read from my TBR pile. For others participating how is the challenge going for you? If you're doing other challenges how are those going for you? 

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Hey guys! I hope that everyone participating in the Insane Genre Challenge has been enjoying the challenge. So far I have and it certainly is a challenge!! I haven't done too bad so far and I hope everyone else is doing well with it too. If you want more info on the challenge here is the original post Insane Genre Challenge 2016.

Genres I've Completed:





Onyx- Paranormal
Heist Society- Espionage
Reached- Dystopian
Bossypants- Non-fiction





The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House- Graphic Novel
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- Horror
Looking for Alaska- YA
How to...Make Love Like A Porn Star- Autobiography





You- Thriller
Iced- Urban Fantasy
Me Before You- Romance
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath- Poetry





One True Loves- Contemporary
Of Mice and Men- Classics
Code Name Verity- Historical Fiction

Genres I'm Currently Reading:

None at this time.

Genres Up Next:





The Picture of Dorian Gray- Victorian
The Birds and Other Stories- Gothic
The Sword of Summer- Children's Book

So that's it for my Insane Genre Challenge update! How is everyone else doing with the challenge? Are you doing a different challenge, if so how is that going? I hope everyone is enjoying their 2016 challenges. :D