Donna’s Comments (group member since May 29, 2014)

Donna’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Clean Out TBR Closet 2024
#19
My goal is to read 40 books on my unread (156) shelf that were purchased prior to 2023. Also to reduce my Want to Read to under 350 (a little over 100) by reading or deleting books I am no longer interest in.

Books read 34/40
✅1. Treading Water 2/27
✅2. Sweet Home Carolina 7/16
✅3.The Raven Song 5/8
✅4. Southern Magic 7/23
✅5. The Sisters Café 6/10
✅6. The Guest List 6/30
✅7. The Secret Mother
8. The Ragged Edge of Night
✅9 The Raven Song 5/8
✅10 The Last Correspondent 2/29
✅11 Cilka's Journey 1/3
12 Pieces of Her
✅ 13 The Last Agent 1/3
✅14 Third Watch 1/4
✅ 15 The New Neighbor 1/8
✅16 This Terrible Beauty 1/19
✅17. The Conjurer 1/28
✅18. Room to Breathe 2/2
✅ 19. Pride and Prejudice 2/6
✅ 20. We Are the Light 2/9
✅ 21. Sunset in St. Tropez 2/13
✅22. Born in Fire 3/6
✅23. Born in Ice 9/11
✅24. Born in Shame 11/20
✅25. Winter Street 3/20
✅26. One by One 3/15
✅27. The Echo of Old Books 3/10
✅28. The Winners 4/9
✅29. The Lucky Shamrock 4/9
✅ 30. The Housemaid 4/16
✅31. The Rabbit Girls 5/12
✅ 32. Golden Girl 6/15
✅33. A Fire Sparkling 9/9
✅ 34. The Secret Mother 6/20
✅35. Perilous Trust 10/3
✅36. Book Lovers 9/27
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323 pages on 12/2
352 pages on 12/13
185 pages on 12/15

Current Total: 1,771,399

New 2 U Authors 2024
#10
Devil May Care = 20

20/20 Completed

✅1. Carter Wilson The New Neighbor 1/8
✅2. Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice 2/6
✅3. Ana Ellroy The Rabbit Girls 5/8
✅4. Matthew Quick We Are the Light 2/9
✅5. Ana Napolitano Hello Beautiful 3/19
✅6. Soray Lane The Last Correspondent 2/29
✅7. Let's Pretend This Will Work 5/27
✅8. Katrin Schumann This Terrible Beauty 1/19
✅9. Jennifer Moorehead Broken Bayou 7/5
✅10. Patricia Rice Sweet Home Carolina by Patricia Rice 7/16
✅11: Emilia Hart Weyward 1/14
✅ 12. Liz Tally Room to Breathe 2/2
✅ 13. Jeneva Rose The Perfect Marriage
✅ 14. Angela Crook Hurt Mountain
✅15. Rebbeca Yarros In the Likely Event 3/2
✅16. Sheila Marikar Friends in Napa
✅ 17. Frieda McFadden The Locked Door
✅ 18. Nadine Nettmann The Bootlegger's Daughter
✅ 19. Bonnie Grarmus Lessons in Chemistry 5/17
✅ 20. Emily Henry Book Lovers 9/27

A-Z Author 2024

Completed 22/26

❎A. - Austin, Jane Pride and Prejudice2/6
❎B. Barbara Davis The Echo of Old Books
❎C. - Crook, Angela Hurt Mountain 2/22
❎ D. -Dugoni, Robert: The Last Agent 1/3
❎E. - Emilia Hart Weyward 1/14
❎F. - Frieda McFadden The Locked Door
❎G. - Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry 5/17
❎ H. -Heather Morris Cilka's Journey 1/3
❎I. Isabella Maldonado A Killer’s Game 3/26
❎J. - Jeneva Rose The Perfect Marriage 1/27
K. - Kylie Brant Pretty Girls Dancing
❎L. - Luanne Rice Last Night 1/25
❎M. - Maclean, Julianne The Color of Hope 3/4
❎N. - Nora Roberts Born in Fire 3/6
❎O. - O’Neal, Barbara Memories of the Lost 9/21
❎P. - Picoult, Jodi Mad Honey 6/5
❎Q. - Quick, Matthew We Are the Light 2/9
❎R. Robert Dugoni -Third Watch 1/4
❎S. - Schumann, Katrin This Terrible Beauty 1/19
❎T. - Talley,Liz Room to Breathe 2/2
U. -
❎V. - Vivec Sten Hidden in Shadows 4/26
❎W. -Wilson, Carter The New Neighbor 1/8
X. - Xoxhitl Gonzalez Anita de Monte Laughs Last
❎Y. - Yarros, Rebbeca In the Likely Event3/2
Z. - Zolecki, Todd Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay

TBR Tackler 2024
#13
Level Coathanger 9 to 17 books

I generated 20 numbers to have more choices

Completed: 7

3 Pretty Girls Dancing
✔️33 The Last Agent1/3
41 A Day Like This
44 The Holiday Swap
46 The Book of Lost Friends
54 Pieces of Her
57 True Blue
58 The Prince of Tides
✔️61 The Raven Song 5/8
79 Cruel Doubt
81 This Place of Wonder
✔️92 Wish You Were Here 8/16
✔️93 Born in Fire 33/6
102 Hang the Moon
105 The Family
118 Identity
122 There's No Coming Back from This
✔️134 Winter Street 3/20
✔️144 The Color of Hope 3/4
✔️154 Hidden in Shadows 4/26

416 pages 11/6
330 pages 11/8
90 pages 11/10
282 pages 11/12
264 pages 11/19
351 pages 11/20
373 pages 11/21
256 pages 11/23
379 pages 11/27
294 pages 11/29

My Nov total: 3,035

Current Total: 1,712,415

385 pages 10/4
320 pages 10/9
333 pages 10/19
220 pages 10/21
216 pages 10/25
282 pages 10/31

Oct total 1,756
Current Total: 1,580,245

352 pages 9/2
360 pages 9/4
438 pages 9/11
468 pages 9/24
22 pages 9/24
352 pages 9/27

Current Total: 1,492,301

8/2 p.337
8/4 p.355
8/6 p.273
8/13 p.344
8/17 p.384
8/22 p.384
8/28 p.344

August total 2421

Current Total: 1,284,210

August 2023
Completed: 4

S: 8/7
W: 8/2
I: 8/17
M:
S: Simone St. James 8/13
U:
I:
T: 8/4

299 7/2
178 7/7
304 7/6
384 7/13
279 7/14
307 7/18
368 7/22
411 7/27

Subtotal 2539

Current Total: 1,146,527

. 5/29, 407
5/31, 427
6/5, 347
6/10, 390
6/13, 303
6/14, 351
6/19, 398
6/23, 340
6/24, 274
6/29, 364

Sub total: 3601

Current Total: 1,011,319

4/29 Out of the Ashes 286 pages
4/30 For the Love of Friends 364 pages
5/6 A Slow Fire Burning 307 pages
5/7 Every Little Thing 330 pages
5/10 Can't Buy Me Love 194 pages
5/11 The Boy from the Woods 385
5/14 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 416 pages
5/20 Magical Midlife Madness 316 pages

Subtotal: 2,598

Current Total: 777,652

4/23 216
4/23 401
4/16 360
4/11 88
4/10 411
4/7 315
4/4 434

Sub total: 2225

Current Total: 651381

3/28 423 pages

Current Total: 550,377

2/28, 343
3/1, 48
3/2, 333
3/9, 272
3/11, 329
3/15, 329
3/23, 352

Subtotal 2006

Current Total: 520,619

Level L-7 49 books

Start 2/23/23 to 2/23/24

Read one (1) book for 2014 to 2017, then the corresponding ending number for 2018 to 2023.

Completed: 33/43 I am not going to complete this challenge this year 😞. I will look forward to the next one.

2023 🔅
✔️1 You Look Beautiful Tonight 6/5
✔️2 Halfway to You 4/10
✔️3 Out of the Ashes 4/29

2022 🔅
✔️1 Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing 3/9
✔️2 A Light in the Forest 3/11

2021 🔅
✔️1 The Mixtape 3/2

2020
✔️1 Troubles in Paradise 8/4
✔️2 The Boy from the Woods 5/11
✔️3 Magical Midlife Madness 5/20
✔️4 Magical Midlife Dating 9/24
✔️5 The Glamourist 11/12
6 The Guest List
✔️7 The Perfect Marriage 1/27
✔️8 This Terrible Beauty 1/19/24
9 The Last Correspondent
✔️10 The Last Agent 1/3/24

2019
✔️1. What Happens in Paradise 8/2
✔️2 Room to Breathe 2/2/24
✔️ 3 Cilka's Journey 1/3/24
✔️4 Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption 12/15
✔️5 The Eighth Sister 12/21
6 A Fire Sparkling
7 The Sisters Café
8 Relative Fortunes
9 False Step

2018
✔️1 Sea of Memories 8/6
2 Pretty Girls Dancing
✔️3 Evidence of the Affair 4/11
4 The Storyteller's Secret
✔️5 Witchnapped in Westerham 10/25
6 Pieces of Her
✔️7 Five Years Gone 12/16
8 The Things We Don't Say

2017
✔️1 Us Against You 4/4
✔️2 Sometimes I Lie 11/19
✔️3 Every Little Thing 5/7
✔️4 Can't Buy Me Love 5/10
✔️5 Lethal Lies 5/29
✔️6 Twisted Truths 5/31
✔️7 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 6/19

2016
✔️1 Deadly Silence 4/20

2015
✔️1 Kiss Me Forever 7/7

2014
✔️1 The Midnight Witch 12/13

Jenn wrote: "Something tells me there isnt going to be one :("

I agree, I was hoping it would have been up by today. 😞

2/5 263 pages
2/10 355 pages
2/6 347 pages
2/13 284 pages
2/14 36 pages
2/17 313pages
2/20 397 pages

Sub Total 1,995

Current Total: 333,346

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "I hope it will have a new one as well. Doesn't seem like mods have been in this thread for a while though, so I'm worried."

I love this challenge also, I keep looking for the new one. I still have 2 books finish