Keli’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2016)

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

Eldarwen wrote: "Hmm, yes, I feel the same way about the Prydain book(s).

Just make these books work for challenges ;-) It's what I'm doing. When I have to pick a book for a specific task in a challenge, I first ..."

I'm trying. I needed a book with a pig on the cover, which is how I ended up reading the Book of Three. Maybe what I should do is have a wider pool of books to choose from. I have only listed twenty. Maybe I should list fifty and still aim for twenty.

Lol I have just finished my first book!!! I have 5 others waiting in line but they keep getting bumped. It's what happened to me last year too. But I'm going to start my next one, even if I have to put it down for other challenges. I'm going to get twenty read this year.

Book #1 The Book of Three ★★★ - Sweet, silly little adventure. If I had read it in my youth I would probably have carried on. As it is, I'm glad I read it, as it's a modern children's classic but that's it.

Utopia next.

I only managed 10 different countries in a year 😭😭😭
But this challenge did get me to finally read The Traitor's Niche and it was well worth the wait.
Thanks for the challenge.

Res, just in case I up my game

Res

Level L-9 = 55 books.
Read one book (1) for 2011, then two (2) for 2012, etc., on through the corresponding ending number to 2020.

✔2011
1. Moon Called - 10/01/21

2012
1. Bayou Moon Ilona Andrews 26/06/20
2.

✔2013
1. Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell - 31/01/20
2. The Death of Bees Lisa O'Donnell - 27/02/20
3. Throne of Glass Sarah J. Maas - 17/03/20

✔2014
1. The Scribe Elizabeth Hunter - 15/04/20
2. Alpha Jasinda Wilder - 05/05/20
3. Just For You, Sir Laylah Roberts - 21/05/20
4. Under Locke Mariana Zapata -16/07/20

✔2015
1. The Wrath and the Dawn Renée Ahdieh - 07/01/20
2. The Hourglass Factory Lucy Ribchester - 13/02/20
3. Him Sarina Bowen - 03/03/20
4. Finding Master Right Sparrow Beckett - 30/04/20
5. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt - 12/10/20

✔2016
1. An Unattractive Vampire Jim McDoniel - 10/01/20
2. And I Darken Kiersten White 14/01/20
3. The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland Rebekah Crane - 16/01/20
4. The Bird and the Sword Amy Harmon - 23/01/20
5. Blood Brothers Nora Roberts - 25/01/20
6. Blood and Sand Elizabeth Hunter - 20/02/20

2017
1. Everyone Brave is Forgiven Chris Cleave - 31/01/20
2. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle - 02/04/20
3. Undeniable Madeline Sheehan -21/07/20
4. Homegoing - 22/09/20
5. Black Water Lilies - 01/10/20
6. Caraval - 18/10/20
7
✔2018
1. Dark Queen Faith Hunter - 03/01/20
2. The Traitor's Niche Ismail Kadare - 13/03/20
3. The Cruel Prince Holly Black - 19/04/20
4.The Book of Three Lloyd Alexander - 18/05/20
5. Strange the Dreamer Laini Taylor - 21/06/20
6. Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott - 30/06/20
7. The House of Binding ThornsAliette de Bodard - 13/08/20
8. Normal People - 29/10/20

✔2019
1. Quiet Man Kristen Ashley - 13/02/20
2. The Taiga Syndrome Cristina Rivera Garza - 02/03/20
3. The Wicked King Holly Black - 26/04/20
4. The Queen of Nothing Holly Black - 26/04/20
5. Grave Destiny Kalayna Price - 25/05/20
6. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Michelle McNamara - 10/07/20
7. Your Perfect Year - 21/08/20
8. The Starless Sea - 07/10/20
9. The Mere Wife - 18/01/21

2020
1. To Be Taught, If Fortunate - 26/09/20
2. Mexican Gothic - 25/10/20
3. Such a Fun Age - 12/12/20
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I'm in if it gets to me in time.

I only managed 8/50 this year. It's pretty low but I also managed to remove another 4 for lack of interest. So if look at it as 12, then it's a bit better. I removed double digits at least.
Next year I'm going to do a random sort instead of earliest. There might be a bit more diversity in genre.
Thanks for the challenge. Look forward to 2020.

Challenge complete
Link to Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I read 56 books in total. Thanks for the challenge

My year is up. I read 83 books in total, finished Option 1 for all colours, Option 2 for three colours, and completed all options for Blue. I enjoyed it, thanks for the challenge.

Judy wrote: "I'll be finishing up Anna Karenina today and that'll be it from me at 41 of 50 books. While I was very optimistic a month ago that I'd be able to finish the whole list, I kinda forgot that December..."

Well done, Judy. I think that's a pretty brilliant achievement.

Well done, Karen. I'm hoping to get 10.

I'm in again. I was pretty dismal at this last year, so I'm going to try a different sort method and hope I get a selection of genres.

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
Dubliners
All the Pretty Horses
The Time Machine
Scarlet Deep
Vox
Dead to the World
Astonishing Color of After
Wither
Cloud Atlas
The Chemistry of Death
The Last Wild Men of Borneo
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Night's Master
Thr Complete English Poems
Shattered Dreams
Greek to Me
Tithe
The Poisonwood Bible
The Distant Hours
The Book of Three
Middlegame
Golden Child
Now You're One of Us
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi
The Final Formula Collection
We Hope for Better Things
The Fifth Season
Utopia
Moorehead Manor

Books I've actually read added to my tbr 2017 or earlier
The Wrath and the Dawn
The Bird and the Sword
Eleanor & Park
The Hourglass Factory
The White Tiger
Shiver
*Arctic Winds*
The Book of Three
The Big Sleep
Neanderthal Seeks Human
Strange the Dreamer
The Glass Castle
Visions of Heat
The Muse
The House of Binding Thorns
The Six-Gun Tarot
The Prophet

I'll buddy any of them except The Mists of Avalon. I don't think I could read that without taking into account her appalling attitude re her husband's proclivities and her possible culpability. It's almost akin to looking at portraits of Gill's daughter. One cannot look at them now without taint of atrocities inflicted.

Louise wrote: "I'm planning to read Station Eleven next year for ATY. I'm down to the last book on the pile to read this year for this challenge - Under the Dome It is a chunkster! ..."

Yikes, that's quite the goal! But even if you only did a third of that around your other reading that's a good old chunk of books that have been on your tbr for six years.

Laurie wrote: "Just finished another one - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown. It was another book that wasn't worth the wait. I'm glad to have read it and have it off my list, but I thought it was just..."

Hmm, that's on my tbr.

I've not sped up an audio yet, but after reading these posts I might give it a go. Maybe Dune would have been better at 1.5. It definitely would have not taken the full 21 hours!

Vicki Willis wrote: "I set my goal at 20 this year, which is actually 2x as many as I did last year.
I am 2 books away. I should finish. I feel pretty good about it even though my number is low.
I am thinking of bump..."

That's a good plan. I do that with my GR annual goal. When I meet it I go up by 5, and when I don't I keep it the same for next time.

Even though I've only read about 5 or 6 from my list of 50 on here, I have read 26 that I added to my tbr 2017 or prior. So I might get another 5 - 10 in. This is a fab challenge. I just read The Kingdom, which I added in 2016,and it was a very enjoyable read. I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.

Kate wrote: "Just finished last night. Oh my, I bawled my eyes out. So devastating! 5 star book for sure"

That book is so painfully beautiful. I'm glad you enjoyed it. That book, Animal Farm, The Color Purple and Never Let Me Go are all 5 star reads for me as well. And Cider House Rules 4 star. Fingers crossed you continue to enjoy your tbr.