The Preppy Book Princess

Hi Guys, I'd meant to post my best books of 2016 a long time ago, but unfortunately this has been a really rough week.  I know I'd mentioned a couple of months ago on my blog that I'd been going through a few rough spots, and for some reason, it really hit me hard again as New Year's approached. Everyone else I knew was looking forward to ringing in 2017, and all I could panicky think about it is how 2017 might end up being just as bad as 2016. I absolutely hate when I get negative about things like this, and it's definitely been a struggle trying to pull myself back out of it, and I thought this morning that what could possibly be a better way to cheer myself up than sharing my favorite books I read in 2016 with all of you! Here's my list :) In My Worst Books I Read In 2016 Post which I posted last week, I included ten books, however, there were way too many books I completely loved in this year to limit it down that low, and so there's going to ...

Good Morning Fellow Readers :) Now That Blogmas is over, I'm going to be working really hard to get my blog back on a regular three times a week posting schedule. Blogmas was definitely a lot of fun, but also quite a bit of work, and very time consuming, so it may take me a few days to get everything back in order again. I hope you guys all had a great Christmas! Ours just finished last night, as we celebrated with my dad yesterday, and I definitely feel like I've hit a food wall. It was a really fun few days, but I'm definitely ready for some down time, and healthier eating again. I know that Christmas is now officially over, but I do still plan on sharing a couple of more "Christmassy" themed posts in the next week or so, including "What I Included In My TBTB Santa box", "what I Received For Christmas This Year", and also possibly a DITL of my various Christmas celebrations."  However, for today's post I want to move on i...

Merry Christmas Everyone!  It's the last day of Blogmas guys, and I'm so proud that I made it through the whole thing.  Today I simply want to say Merry Christmas, and thank you all for sticking with me this month.  I hope your holidays will be filled with lots of love and laughter and time spent with loved ones.  Here's to quality time with the people we love, and lots of yummy food!  I look forward to what 2017 has in store for my blog.  Merry Christmas all my fellow readers, and Happy Birthday Jesus :) 

Merry Christmas Eve Everyone, and Welcome to the 24th Day of Blogmas :) I just got home from work, and of course it was crazy busy like it always is right before Christmas, and I'm about to head over to my Mom's to help with starting to prepare food for tonight. However, I definitely didn't forget about Blogmas, and before I go celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior with my family, I wanted to post this fun Christmas book tag that I've seen on several different blogs this last little while. This particular tag is called "The Christmas Song Book Tag", and it was created by Hailey in Bookland on Youtube. You can watch the original video here. Let's Go Ahead and Get Started! 1) You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch: Name a villainous character you couldn't help but love: Warner from the Shatter Me series. For some odd reason I loved his character right from the start, and was rooting for him throughout the entire series.  2) All I Wan...

Welcome To Blogmas Day 23 Guys :) I can't believe Christmas Eve is tomorrow, and I also can't believe that I've managed to stick with Blogmas this entire time. I have to say that I'll definitely miss it once it's over, but at the same time, I think I'll be glad to have a little bit more free time on my hands. Today's post is going to be a look at some of the books included on my January TBR list. I say "some" because I know after opening Christmas presents I will definitely want to be adding some of my new books to the list, so I'm keeping my current TBR pile for January to be pretty small. Here's the books I'm hoping to get to next month: Departures by Robin Jones Gunn: I read both The Christy Miller series and The Sierra Jensen series a long time ago, however, after recently starting Christy and Todd The Married Years, I realized that there's a lot of books in the spin off series, or stand alone novels that conne...

Hey Guys, and Welcome To Blogmas Day 22 :) For Tomorrow's Blogmas, I will be sharing some of the books on my January TBR List, but I thought for today's post, that it would be fun to share with you guys some of the series I hope to finish in 2017. There's been a few series for me over the last few years that I've just never got around to finishing, even though I always meant to, and so 2017 is the year I hope to fix that. First off, I definitely want to finish The Lunar Chronicles. It's one of my all time favorite series, and Winter has been sitting on my bookshelf since last Christmas. This book is definitely a priority for me, and I can't wait to see how Marissa Meyer wraps up this beloved series. Secondly, I hope to finally finish The Selection series by Kiera Cass. Once again, I only have the last book ( The Crown), to finish, and it's also been sitting on my bookshelf for almost a year. I think I'm honestly just sad to see this all tim...

It's Blogmas Day 21 Guys :) As it's getting closer and closer to Christmas, I've found that I haven't had quite as much reading time the last little while. And as I don't expect this to change much over the next few days, I thought today would be a great day to post the results of the Reading Resolutions I set for myself back at the start of 2016, and if you're interested you can read my original post here . My first Bookish resolution was that I set my Goodreads 2016 reading goal to be 350 books!  Results: Unfortunately, this is a goal I didn't even come close to matching, as right now I've only completed 268 books, and I definitely don't see myself finishing 72 books before New Years. I'll probably end up reaching 270 before then, but that will probably be all. However, I'm okay with not making this goal this year, as it shows that in 2016 I was sick a lot less, and as such, I didn't finish quite as many books as I did th...