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TBR Tackler 20221st Jan-31st Dec 2022
No Suspension - 27+ book
I will try again this year too, especially as my TBR list grew a lot.
I did better in 2021 in this challenge than I did in 2020 but I still didn't hit the 30. Maybe this year.
I start the year with 995 books on my TBR. I will aim for 30 again, but I will list 50 as I found I don't stick to the strict list, so maybe I will hit the goal if I have a few extra options.
12/30
400 -
538 - This Strange Engine
6 - City of Ashes
901 - Skeletons in the Closet
995- The Duke Who Knew Too Much
923 - Kiss of Fire
282 -
640 - The A-Z of Everything
41 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
396 - Gone
✔661 -
433 - Alice in Wonderland Collection – All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground
671 - Digital Fortress
✔159 -
452 - The Sheik's Intimate Proposition
✔354 -
428 - Fire & Ice
78 - The Prince and the Pauper
149 - My Sister's Keeper
920 - A Spell of Trouble
760 - Holyland Vol. 2
190 - Slaughterhouse-Five
290 -
✔485 -
697 - A Clockwork Orange
✔87 -
✔276 -
867 - The Gifting
564 - Trainspotting
491 - Whispers
8 - The Rainmaker
✔28 -
846 - The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 2
✔46 -
273 - Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
690 - Sold
521 - V for Vendetta
916 - Emerge
552 - The Submission
600 - The Essex Serpent
✔233 -
✔21 -
257 - The Keeper of Lost Things
196 - Four: A Divergent Story Collection
508 -
420 - King's Game Origin, tome 1
✔469 -
658 - Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
527 - The City of Wizards
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In 2021 I reached about 78 new authors. Not as many as the previous years. I don't know if I will read as many this year, but we will see. I will definitely aim to do the 20 at least once though. New 2 U Authors 2022
Duration: 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022
Level: Devil May Care
108/20
1. Don’t Tell Teacher by Suzy K. Quinn 11/01/22
2. Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants by Terri Tatchell 18/01/22
3. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 18/01/22
4. Once Upon and Ever After by Caroline L. Thornton 19/01/22
5. Save the Arctic by Bethany Stahl 20/01/22
6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 24/01/22
7. What If, Pig? by Linzie Hunter 25/1/22
8. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 28/1/22
9. How Winston Came Home for Christmas by Alex T. Smith 5/2/22
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8/2/22
11. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 14/2/22
12. Learn Norwegian - Level 1: Introduction: Volume 1 by Innovative Language 15/2/22
13. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott 18/2/22
14. What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream? by Justine Avery 20/2/22
15. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 1/3/22
16. Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford 2/3/22Barchester Towers
17. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa 4/3/22
18.Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Jonathan Swift 17/3/22
19. Cats by Howard Loxton 18/3/22
20. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 22/3/22
21. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 30/3/22
22. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 3/4/22
23. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 6/4/22
24. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 22/4/22
25. How to Welcome a New Baby by Jean Reagan 24/4/22
26. More Than Enough: A Passover Story by April Halprin Wayland 24/4/22
27. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 25/4/22
28. The Dinosaur Who Discovered Hamburgers by Adisan Books 27/4/22
29. The Snow Dragon by Abi Elphinstone 30/4/22
30. Theres A Viking In My Bed by Jeremy Strong 2/5/22
31. I've Loved You Since Foreverby Hoda Kotb 12/5/22
32. The Gift That I Can Give 12/5/22
33. Amelia Bedelia Makes a Friend by Herman Parish 12/5/22
34. Snail's Ark by Irene Latham 12/5/22
35. Have You Ever Wondered What You Will Be? by Junia Wonders 12/5/22
36. The Tooth Fairy's Tummy Ache by Lori Orlinsky 12/5/22
37. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 24/5/22
38. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 28/5/22
39. Rooty the Rutabaga : A Story About Vegetables, Inclusion and Seeing the Sunny Side of Life by Steven Megson 30/5/66
40. A House for a Mouse by Lisette Starr 30/5/22
41. My Dad, My Rock by Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos 30/5/22
42. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 9/6/22
43. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 15/6/22
44. Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat and Rat by Melinda Thompson 20/6/22
45. Wildfire by Sam Burns 20/6/22
46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 21/6/22
47. It by Stephen King 25/6/22
48. The Book of Cold Cases 27/6/22
49. Halloween with Snowman Paul (halloween rhyming picture book for kids and children ages 3-5; preschool, toddlers, babies, kindergarten; best picture books for children; by Yossi Lapid 1/7/22
50. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4/7/22
51. Lily May and the Ruby Shoes Blues by Danielle Diestl 7/7/22
52. The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec 11/7/22
53. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville 26/7/22
54. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 28/8/22
55. The Crowlands by T.M. Creedy 1/8/22
56. Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter 1/8/22
57. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson 4/8/22
58. His by Design by Dani Wade 11/8/22
59. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren 12/8/22
60. Stolen Children by Peg Kehret 12/8/22
61. The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 14/8/22
62. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 14/8/22
63. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn 15/8/22
64. The Fish who Wanted to Dance With the Stars by Barbara Pinke 16/8/22
65. Complete Cat: A comprehensive guide to the feline world by Clare Gibson 17/8/22
66. Do Not Wish for a Birthday Unicorn!: A silly story about teamwork, empathy, compassion, and kindness by Sarina Siebenaler 28/8/22
67. Benny the Brave in The First Day Jitters (Team Supercrew Series): A children’s book about big emotions, bravery, and first day of school jitters. by Julie Anne Penn 28/8/22
68. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley 2/9/22
69. The Accident by Diane Hoh 6/9/22
70. Scars by Cheryl Rainfield 8/9/22
71. The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson 10/9/22
72. The One You Love by Paul Pilkington 10/9/22
73. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith 22/9/22
74. Of Beast and Beauty by Chanda Hahn 26/9/22
75. I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington 27/9/22
76. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 27/9/22
77. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 28/9/22
78. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 28/9/22
79. Murder in the Bistro by Susan Kiernan-Lewis 29/9/22
80. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 30/9/22
81. The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe 4/10/22
82. God Gave Us You by Lisa Tawn Bergren 7/10/22
83. La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya 7/10/22
84. Tomorrow I'll Be Kind by Jessica Hische 7/10/22
85. The Lazy Girl's Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Fit by A.J. Rochester 7/10/22
86. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 15/10/22
87. This Is a Gift for You by Emily Winfield Martin 19/10/22
88. My Two Border Towns by David Bowles 19/10/22
89. Ulysses by James Joyce 22/10/22
90. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward 23/10/22
91. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 26/10/22
92. The Mermaid's Daughter by Ann Claycomb 29/10/22
93. The Night Shift by Alex Finlay 30/10/22
94. My Tiny Pet Elephant: A Fun, Playful Book Encouraging the Imagination to Flourish by Jessica Dailey 31/10/22
95. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore 31/10/22
96. Ethan and Mia's Miracle Island: Books for Kids: The siblings are bored. This eBook teaches kids creativity, early learning, and values—while being a funny bedtime story. by Danny Friedman 2/11/22
97. How to Hug a Cloud by Jacqueline Vollat 2/11/22
98. Snakes Have No Legs: A light-hearted book on how snakes get around by slithering by Kelly Tills 2/11/22
99.The Naughty Sheep by Diana Aleksandrova 2/11/22
100. Mommy, Mommy, Where Is The Moon? by Serene Chia 2/11/22
101. The Housemaid by Sarah A. Denzil 7/11/22
102. The Prestige by Christopher Priest 10/11/22
103. Bed and Breakfast and Murder by Patti Larsen 13/11/22
104. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 18/11/22
105. Cats Don't Like Christmas! by Andy Wortlock 23/11/22
106. The Written by Ben Galley 23/11/22
107. Granny Got a Sprout Stuck Up Her Sneezer: a funny book about Christmas for children aged 3-7 years by Becci Murray 24/11/22
108. Villa of Sun and Secrets by Jennifer Bohnet 24/11/22
In 2021 I reached about 80 new authors. Not as many as the previous years. I don't know if I will read as many this year, but we will see. I will definitely aim to do the 20 at least once though. New 2 U Authors 2022
Duration: 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2022
Level: Devil May Care
108/20
1. Don’t Tell Teacher by Suzy K. Quinn 11/01/22
2. Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants by Terri Tatchell 18/01/22
3. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 18/01/22
4. Once Upon and Ever After by Caroline L. Thornton 19/01/22
5. Save the Arctic by Bethany Stahl 20/01/22
6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 24/01/22
7. What If, Pig? by Linzie Hunter 25/1/22
8. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 28/1/22
9. How Winston Came Home for Christmas by Alex T. Smith 5/2/22
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8/2/22
11. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 14/2/22
12. Learn Norwegian - Level 1: Introduction: Volume 1 by Innovative Language 15/2/22
13. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott 18/2/22
14. What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream? by Justine Avery 20/2/22
15. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 1/3/22
16. Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford 2/3/22Barchester Towers
17. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa 4/3/22
18.Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Jonathan Swift 17/3/22
19. Cats by Howard Loxton 18/3/22
20. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 22/3/22
21. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 30/3/22
22. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 3/4/22
23. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 6/4/22
24. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 22/4/22
25. How to Welcome a New Baby by Jean Reagan 24/4/22
26. More Than Enough: A Passover Story by April Halprin Wayland 24/4/22
27. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 25/4/22
28. The Dinosaur Who Discovered Hamburgers by Adisan Books 27/4/22
29. The Snow Dragon by Abi Elphinstone 30/4/22
30. Theres A Viking In My Bed by Jeremy Strong 2/5/22
31. I've Loved You Since Foreverby Hoda Kotb 12/5/22
32. The Gift That I Can Give 12/5/22
33. Amelia Bedelia Makes a Friend by Herman Parish 12/5/22
34. Snail's Ark by Irene Latham 12/5/22
35. Have You Ever Wondered What You Will Be? by Junia Wonders 12/5/22
36. The Tooth Fairy's Tummy Ache by Lori Orlinsky 12/5/22
37. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 24/5/22
38. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 28/5/22
39. Rooty the Rutabaga : A Story About Vegetables, Inclusion and Seeing the Sunny Side of Life by Steven Megson 30/5/66
40. A House for a Mouse by Lisette Starr 30/5/22
41. My Dad, My Rock by Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos 30/5/22
42. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 9/6/22
43. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 15/6/22
44. Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat and Rat by Melinda Thompson 20/6/22
45. Wildfire by Sam Burns 20/6/22
46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 21/6/22
47. It by Stephen King 25/6/22
48. The Book of Cold Cases 27/6/22
49. Halloween with Snowman Paul (halloween rhyming picture book for kids and children ages 3-5; preschool, toddlers, babies, kindergarten; best picture books for children; by Yossi Lapid 1/7/22
50. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4/7/22
51. Lily May and the Ruby Shoes Blues by Danielle Diestl 7/7/22
52. The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec 11/7/22
53. Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville 26/7/22
54. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 28/8/22
55. The Crowlands by T.M. Creedy 1/8/22
56. Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter 1/8/22
57. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson 4/8/22
58. His by Design by Dani Wade 11/8/22
59. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren 12/8/22
60. Stolen Children by Peg Kehret 12/8/22
61. The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 14/8/22
62. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 14/8/22
63. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn 15/8/22
64. The Fish who Wanted to Dance With the Stars by Barbara Pinke 16/8/22
65. Complete Cat: A comprehensive guide to the feline world by Clare Gibson 17/8/22
66. Do Not Wish for a Birthday Unicorn!: A silly story about teamwork, empathy, compassion, and kindness by Sarina Siebenaler 28/8/22
67. Benny the Brave in The First Day Jitters (Team Supercrew Series): A children’s book about big emotions, bravery, and first day of school jitters. by Julie Anne Penn 28/8/22
68. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley 2/9/22
69. The Accident by Diane Hoh 6/9/22
70. Scars by Cheryl Rainfield 8/9/22
71. The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson 10/9/22
72. The One You Love by Paul Pilkington 10/9/22
73. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith 22/9/22
74. Of Beast and Beauty by Chanda Hahn 26/9/22
75. I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington 27/9/22
76. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 27/9/22
77. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 28/9/22
78. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 28/9/22
79. Murder in the Bistro by Susan Kiernan-Lewis 29/9/22
80. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 30/9/22
81. The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe 4/10/22
82. God Gave Us You by Lisa Tawn Bergren 7/10/22
83. La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya 7/10/22
84. Tomorrow I'll Be Kind by Jessica Hische 7/10/22
85. The Lazy Girl's Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Fit by A.J. Rochester 7/10/22
86. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 15/10/22
87. This Is a Gift for You by Emily Winfield Martin 19/10/22
88. My Two Border Towns by David Bowles 19/10/22
89. Ulysses by James Joyce 22/10/22
90. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward 23/10/22
91. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 26/10/22
92. The Mermaid's Daughter by Ann Claycomb 29/10/22
93. The Night Shift by Alex Finlay 30/10/22
94. My Tiny Pet Elephant: A Fun, Playful Book Encouraging the Imagination to Flourish by Jessica Dailey 31/10/22
95. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore 31/10/22
96. Ethan and Mia's Miracle Island: Books for Kids: The siblings are bored. This eBook teaches kids creativity, early learning, and values—while being a funny bedtime story. by Danny Friedman 2/11/22
97. How to Hug a Cloud by Jacqueline Vollat 2/11/22
98. Snakes Have No Legs: A light-hearted book on how snakes get around by slithering by Kelly Tills 2/11/22
99.The Naughty Sheep by Diana Aleksandrova 2/11/22
100. Mommy, Mommy, Where Is The Moon? by Serene Chia 2/11/22
101. The Housemaid by Sarah A. Denzil 7/11/22
102. The Prestige by Christopher Priest 10/11/22
103. Bed and Breakfast and Murder by Patti Larsen 13/11/22
104. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 18/11/22
105. Cats Don't Like Christmas! by Andy Wortlock 23/11/22
106. The Written by Ben Galley 23/11/22
107. Granny Got a Sprout Stuck Up Her Sneezer: a funny book about Christmas for children aged 3-7 years by Becci Murray 24/11/22
108. Villa of Sun and Secrets by Jennifer Bohnet 24/11/22
TBR Tackler 20221st Jan-31st Dec 2022
No Suspension - 27+ book
I will try again this year too, especially as my TBR list grew a lot.
I did better in 2021 in this challenge than I did in 2020 but I still didn't hit the 30. Maybe this year.
I start the year with 995 books on my TBR. I will aim for 30 again, but I will list 50 as I found I don't stick to the strict list, so maybe I will hit the goal if I have a few extra options.
12/30
400 -
538 - This Strange Engine
6 - City of Ashes
901 - Skeletons in the Closet
995- The Duke Who Knew Too Much
923 - Kiss of Fire
282 -
640 - The A-Z of Everything
41 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
396 - Gone
✔661 -
433 - Alice in Wonderland Collection – All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground
671 - Digital Fortress
✔159 -
452 - The Sheik's Intimate Proposition
✔354 -
428 - Fire & Ice
78 - The Prince and the Pauper
149 - My Sister's Keeper
920 - A Spell of Trouble
760 - Holyland Vol. 2
190 - Slaughterhouse-Five
290 -
✔485 -
697 - A Clockwork Orange
✔87 -
✔276 -
867 - The Gifting
564 - Trainspotting
491 - Whispers
8 - The Rainmaker
✔28 -
846 - The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 2
✔46 -
273 - Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
690 - Sold
521 - V for Vendetta
916 - Emerge
552 - The Submission
600 - The Essex Serpent
✔233 -
✔21 -
257 - The Keeper of Lost Things
196 - Four: A Divergent Story Collection
508 -
420 - King's Game Origin, tome 1
✔469 -
658 - Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
527 - The City of Wizards
✔81 -
I used an Audible credit for this. I may end up finishing it real quick as I'm starting a new job in the new year than I should be able to listen to things at. If they dont let me then I will make slow progress like normal
Happy birthday M! My birthday is tomorrow so we are both December babies close to Christmas!Well done everyone and thank you again for the fun challenge!
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389 pages
308 pagesCurrent Total: 1,256,256
Cleaning out the TBR closet 2022 challengeDuration: 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022
In previous years, I successfully managed to get my TBR to shrink. However, last year I found a website that emails me with book deals on Amazon and my TBR list is now constantly growing. But I still managed to get 71 books off.
I am starting this year with 1,012 books on my TBR. I'm not sure what this will be like for me so I will start the year with a target of 50 book.
Last year I focused more on the years that I added books and cleared off the remaining from 2017. The other years have a minimum of 30 books year so this year I will focus more on getting as many from 2012 read as well as trying to read some of the books that have been on my Kindle for a long time.
*Goal raised to 70 on 2nd August.
72/70
Leftovers from previous years:
Series:
Mortal Instruments
City of Ashes (2013)
City of Glass (2013)
City of Fallen Angels (2013)
City of Lost Souls (2013)
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Millennium
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2012)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2018)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2018)
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2018)
The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019)
Artemis Fowl
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The Last Anniversary
The First Assistant: A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain
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Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Henry V
Added in 2013
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A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold
Added in 2014
Casper the Commuting Cat: The True Story of the Cat who Rode the Bus and Stole our Hearts
Added in 2016
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
Added in 2018
The Rainmaker
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The BFG
Added in 2020
Sleepless
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I also read a lot less books this year than the previous couple of years, but I read more longer books so it kind of equals out. In 2020 I read the equivalent of a book a day (366) and that was a struggle but some of them were very short books. I don't need to challenge myself with that again so now I've been trying to just get some of those longer books off my TBR. I'll probably do the same next year too. Gotta get those books added in 2012 read.
I did the same thing, but a lot on the list I haven't read yet.
I don't think I will be finishing anything else now...
Cleaning out the TBR closet 2022 challengeDuration: 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022
In previous years, I successfully managed to get my TBR to shrink. However, last year I found a website that emails me with book deals on Amazon and my TBR list is now constantly growing. But I still managed to get 71 books off.
I am starting this year with 1,012 books on my TBR. I'm not sure what this will be like for me so I will start the year with a target of 50 book.
Last year I focused more on the years that I added books and cleared off the remaining from 2017. The other years have a minimum of 30 books year so this year I will focus more on getting as many from 2012 read as well as trying to read some of the books that have been on my Kindle for a long time.
*Goal raised to 70 on 2nd August.
72/70
Leftovers from previous years:
Series:
Mortal Instruments
City of Ashes (2013)
City of Glass (2013)
City of Fallen Angels (2013)
City of Lost Souls (2013)
City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Millennium
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2012)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2018)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2018)
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2018)
The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019)
Artemis Fowl
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Added in 2012
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The Last Anniversary
The First Assistant: A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain
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Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Henry V
Added in 2013
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A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold
Added in 2014
Casper the Commuting Cat: The True Story of the Cat who Rode the Bus and Stole our Hearts
Added in 2016
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
Added in 2018
The Rainmaker
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The BFG
Added in 2020
Sleepless
New for this year
Added in 2012 (31/110)
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I've really enjoyed Wheel this time because of this team. I almost didn't join because I knew I would be busy or moving around a bit so I wasn't sure how much time I would have to read. But I am glad I joined in and that's because of such a great team! Thank you all. I got some good book recommendations and because of your encouragement, I was able to get some of those long books of my TBR list!
I hope to team up with you again in future challenges!
Thank you. I explained to my boyfriend that I would like to read a bit (mostly via audiobook) over the next week for the end of the challenge and he said that was fine so unless I get too distracted, I might still be able to finish the books I've listed.
I would love to have a cat I can do that with one day, Carrie! M - my family cat hates the sound of carrier bags, but will go and sit on one if it happens to be on the floor.
To the team, I feel like I need to apologise in advance. I'm not sure how much I am going to finish this round. I returned to the UK today and dragged my boyfriend along with me (you have no idea how much more stressful he made it) and while I am, of course, happy he is with me I don't think I'm going to have much time to do what I want which will include reading. We have a lot to do with seeing people for birthdays and stuff and when we do have time to ourselves, he will probably want to watch things together as he doesn't have much else to do.
I will do my best to find time to read what I said I would, but this is my advance warning and apology if I don't manage to finish them.
Ones mentioned that I have still on my TBR list are The Count of Monte Cristo, A Suitable Boy and Don Quixote.Others that are on my TBR (and I think haven't been mentioned yet) are Under the Dome, The Arabian Nights, The Mists of Avalon and The Way of Kings.
Those are the ones I have left over 1,000 pages. I managed to tackle a couple of others on my own this year so there is a chance I have recently read whatever is chosen. But if it is something I haven't read, regardless of if it is on my TBR, I will join in.
Dec 09, 2021 04:19AM
DQs: Day 3 Chapter 21-3010. Don is the one who ask for a divorce. What do you think of the requirements he put on the settlement?
It was not surprising given his character and the time period.
11. Do you think Monique’s negotiation with her boss and Evelyn were realistic? Do you think she is growing as a person from the interview process?
She is definitely being influenced by Evelyn.
12. What is your first impression of Max? Does that change throughout the session?
I can't say that he left much of an impression on me.
13. What do you think of the Evelyn and Mick plan and her reasons’ for carrying it out?
It seemed a little selfish, but kept the suspicions of her and Celia at bay. Evelyn seems to do what she feels like she has to do, whether she likes it or not.
14. What do you think of Celia reaction? Does it seem realistic to you that she didn’t think they would sleep together?
I think it was a bit of an overreaction, but she was obviously hurt. It's painful when the person you love sleeps with someone else, no matter the reason or circumstances.
Dec 09, 2021 03:04AM
Discussion questions day 26. How do you think Evelyn handled her relationship with the abusive Don?
It seems as though she hoped things would get better and that she knew if she left him or tried to make the abuse public, then it could damage her career.
7. How believable do you feel the progression of the friendship to romance between Evelyn and Celia is, especially bearing in mind the time period?
It did seem rather quick, however it seems like Evelyn didn't really have many actual friends at the time so maybe she just latched onto the first person she felt somewhat comfortable with.
8. Do you think the author got the old Hollywood vibe right?
I can't claim to be an expert on old Hollywood so I'm not sure how to comment. It seems kind of what I expected though.
9. What do you think of Evelyn’s plan to fake a miscarriage in order to gain sympathy instead of getting bad press? How does it make you feel about her character?
It almost felt like proctection for herself than anything else. While faking a miscarriage is terrible, maybe she feared what Don would do to her more with the bad press about her unwillingness to give him children.
I just had a very cute experience with my boyfriends family cats. The youngest one (still kitten age) and the oldest one (they have 3 now) were watching me put laundry in the machine and when I turned around after putting the powder and stuff in the machine, the youngest one was in the bag I had had my laundry in, just staring up at me. I told her she could keep the bag for now while the laundry is washing. The oldest cat was just watching her like she was jealous she didn't come up with the idea to go in the bag first.
I have a spare one of the bags so I might let them have one if they like it that much.
Dec 07, 2021 04:30AM
DQs: Day 1 Chapter 1-81. Chapter 1 starts with a news clipping and ends with a blog post and chat. What do you think of this nontraditional style? Were you surprised that it didn't continue through the next 7 chapters?
I assumed it was a sort of introduction so I didn't expect the style to continue.
2. Monique Grant is a little known writer. Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography for a reason. Any thoughts to why? Is is just her style? Age? Or do you think it is ore personal?
She claimed it was her style but I feel like there may be a more personal reason.
3. Evelyn's quote "The world doesn't give you things, you take things" really struck me. How does this phrase resonate with you?
This seemed more accurate back then and can still be true now, but nowadays it's more about who you know. The quote is still relevent because if you work hard enough to get a good social group, you can essentially take what you want.
4. Evelyn learned early on about how to use her looks and sex to get what she wanted. She seems to see it as taking what she wanted and doesn't regret her life decisions. Especially in the back drop of the Me too movement, how do you feel about Evelyn and her decisions so far?
To be honest, it sounds pretty standard for how a lot of celebrities get noticed if they don't come from well known or well off families. It's a sad truth and I hope that it changes/ has begun to change.
5. Do you like the back and forth between Monique/now and Evelyn's back story?
I've read this sort of style a few times before so it doesn't seem unusual to me. Sometimes it's nice to get the reaction to the story being told, but sometimes you just want to hear more of the actual story.
