You can see my ratings of the books here if you're curious.

As you can see I didn't complete my 2018 Reading Challenge, unfortunately. But as Goodreads says on their website, better luck in 2019! I'm just going to focus on that and 2019 is a new year with a new Reading Challenge and new books. For 2019 I want to try to read 12 books again!

How many books do you want to read in 2019?

CONTEST WIN 1 IN 2018:
“The Kill Order” and “The Death Cure” by James Dashner (in Swedish) and free movie tickets to “Maze Runner: The Death Cure”, which is the last movie in the trilogy!

I'm going to go and see the movie with my Brother since we watched the two first movies in the trilogy together.

Thank you Månpocket!

You can see my ratings of the books here if you're curious.

Unfortunately, I didn't complete my Reading Challenge in 2017 either. I haven't completed any of my Reading Challenges since 2012, which is just unfortunate. But since I've been doing these Reading Challenges since 2012 I'm not going to stop doing them.

For 2018 I'm going to make it easy for myself. The point with the challenges is to actually complete them and read as many books that you've set as a goal, so it's time to change and I'll start by deciding a lower number of books as a goal for 2018. Then I should be able to make it and it's just a plus if I read more books than that. So, in 2018 I want to read at least 12 books which means 1 book per month. Reading at least one book per month feels like something I always should have been doing anyway so hopefully I can do that in 2018 and make it into a tradition for the future.

How many books do you want to read in 2018?

 “The Lonely Devil” by Claire Gordon-Bouvier.

I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads.

 “Stygga flickor kommer till himlen” by Helena Stjernström.

I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads.
The book is in Swedish and the writer also signed it for me.

 “Going Below the Water's Edge: Past Lives Reincarnation Inner Self” by Ronald S. Fehribach.

I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads.

 “Red Rain” by Ian Thomas.

I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads.

“Jalousi” by Jacob Skyggebjerg.

I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads.

I somehow missed that the book is in Danish when I entered the giveaway so it will be interesting to see if I can read a whole book in Danish.

“Conscious” by Vic Grout.

I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads.

This is the results of my 2016 Read Challenge on Goodreads!
You can see my ratings of the books here if you're curious.

Unfortunately I didn't complete my Reading Challenge in 2016 either. I haven't completed any of my Reading Challenges since 2012 for some reason. But since I've been doing these Reading Challenges since 2012 now I'm not going to stop doing them or stop challenging myself, no matter if I complete them or not.

In 2017 I'm going to try to read 27 books since the number suits the year and that's 2,25 books per month so it should be doable.

How many books do you want to read in 2017?

“Half the Sky: How to Change the World” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn.

I won this book in a giveaway from Emma Watson's book club “Our Shared Shelf” on Goodreads.

Loot Crate just announced their new Wizarding World Crate! ♥

I just saw someone tweet about this and I went over to the website and I had to subscribe right away! I can't say no to a “Harry Potter” subscription box and another exciting thing is that you can choose your Hogwarts house which means that you will definitely get new exclusive products with your own Hogwarts house! I'm so excited and I can't wait to see which kind of Ravenclaw products I will get! ♥

The Wizarding World Crate is created with Warner Bros. and it will be available on a bi-monthly subscription. Each crate will feature new and exclusive figures, collectibles and apparel that celebrate the beloved characters and magic of the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling.

The Wizarding World Crate will be the first ever officially licensed subscription crate for fans of both the “Harry Potter” franchise and the highly anticipated new film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”. The Wizarding World franchise has captivated millions of fans worldwide and continues to do so. This and combined with Loot Crate's ability to deliver a unique mystery subscription box experience brings a piece of J.K. Rowling's universe right into fans' homes. 

All contents of the Wizarding World Crate will be 5-7 carefully chosen, licensed products, exclusive to the crates. Prices for subscriptions begin from $47.99 per crate, depending on the subscription plan. The crate will be delivered every two months.

This crate's theme is Welcome to the Wizarding World: From Hogwarts to the Magical Congress of the United States and beyond, our very first crate takes you on a journey through the world of magic, where you'll meet Fantastic Beasts, learn of historical events, see some familiar faces, and more! Order before November 3.

I've done the Reading Challenge on Goodreads every year since 2012 now but for some reason I haven't completed any of the Reading Challenges since 2012. In 2012 I entered the Reading Challenge some months after the year had started so I had already read some books and completed the challenge that year with 26 books instead of 25 books that was my goal for that year. Since then I've had 26 books as a goal in every Reading Challenge because I know that I can do it since I already did it once but unfortunately I haven't been able to do it again for 3 years. I've probably been procrastinating too much and doing other unnecessary things but I love books and reading so I shouldn't even have a problem with completing a Reading Challenge. Especially not a Reading Challenges with only 26 books when I've seen other people reading that many books in just a month or people reading over 100 books every year. I probably should try to step it up and read more books every year since I have many books on my Goodreads to-read list and it's just increasing every year.
1,724,660 Goodreads users participated in the 2015 Reading Challenge and 19,049 challenges were completed. A total of 28,860,193 books were completed.

Today I got the book “Masquerade” by Hannah Fielding that I won in a Goodreads giveaway.

I've entered giveaways on Goodreads every now and then so far and when I enter their giveaways I obviously enter the giveaways for all the book that I would want to read. I managed to win this book and I'm going to give it a review on Goodreads after I've read it, which is kind of the point of authors and Goodreads giving away books.

If you like to read you should really look up Goodreads by the way, it's a great website to keep track of all the books you've read and all of the books you want to read in the future.

Something that me and Fredrik have in common is that we're both Swedes who were born and raised in Sweden. And I think it's very nice to see that someone from your home country is so successful in another country and it's especially nice to see that someone is so successful in the US because whether we like it or not, the fact is that everything is bigger in the US.

 

I can admit that I don't think Fredrik has been portrayed the best way on the TV-show “Million Dollar Listing New York” in some scenes and that's often the case with TV, but from all the other scenes I think that he seems like a nice guy who's still down to earth even after becoming so successful, which I think everyone should be no matter what you have or don't have but that isn't always the case for everyone as we all know. I also follow him on Instagram and I'm a member in his Facebook group “The Sell Members Only Club” which is an invite-only group, and after following him there he just seems like an even more nicer guy.