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✅ 2025 January Reading Tracker

✅ 2025 February Reading Tracker


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Tolkien Reading Challenge: The Second Breakfast Readerses

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✅ Monthly Audiobook Challenge: January 2025

✅ Monthly Audiobook Challenge: February 2025

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Marauding Monsters (2023-2025)

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Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2025

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The Long Winter Season Audiobook Challenge

~ ❄️🎧📘The Long Winter Season Audiobook Challenge 📘🎧

I will finish my Niccolo book today so Humbert H will be vanquished as well soon.

Yes, please! :))

😅

My Niccolo book works for first/last initials and white cover.

And have another book for age gap.

I'm fine with Thief of Time being used for the graphic novel prompt, if Sammy's too. :))

I KNOW! :D ♡

I hope so, Sammy, I hope so, seeing that it was your fault I bought it in the first place. ;)

I'd would be a terrible -almost apocalyptic- scenario, if we were all here with an empty TBR shelf, looking at each other with traumatised expressions and a need to talk about the good ole' days.... giggles

In. :))

I guess is fitting in more ways than 1. ☺️

Over 29 hours.

Start of Month
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 8

Audiobooks in monthly category read: 2
, 4 stars for story, but 5 stars for the excellent narration
, 4 stars for story, but 5 stars for the excellent narration

Audiobooks NOT in category: 6
by Eric Metaxas, 4,5 stars, the author is a good narrator as well
by John Carlin, 5 stars, LOVED IT!!!! very good narration by Saul Reichlin
by John Scalzi, 3,5 stars, short and fun
by Camilla Townsend, 3,5 stars, very irritating narration
by Coinneach MacLeod, 4 stars, lovely Scottish accent and voice
, 3 stars, middling narration

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
by Eric Metaxas, 4,5 stars, the author is a good narrator as well
by John Carlin, 5 stars, LOVED IT!!!! very good narration by Saul Reichlin
by Coinneach MacLeod, 4 stars, lovely Scottish accent and voice

My goal is to read 40 books from my TBR, but mostly (at least 25) from my To-Read-Books-Owned shelf .

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Start of the year:
TBR Shelf: 169 books
To-Read-Books-Owned Shelf: 82 books

On 2 Mar, goal increased from 40 to 45.

On 31 Mar, goal increased from 45 to 50.


FINISHED: 44 / 50

1. by Dorothy Dunnett, 4 stars
2. by Dan Jones, 4,5 stars
3. by Eric Metaxas
4. by John Mauceri
5. by K.J. Charles (3,5 stars)
6. by Suzanne Collins (3 stars)
7. by Philip Pullman (3 stars)
8. by Dorothy Dunnett (4 stars)
9. by Ronan Farrow (5 stars)
10. by Philip Pullman (2 stars)
11. by Mark Seal (10 stars)
12. by Mary Stewart, 3,5 stars
13. by Donald Spoto, 4 stars
14. by Ben Aaronovitch, 4 stars
15. by Uzma Jalaluddin, 5 stars
16. by Mary Ann Shaffer, 5 stars, 5 stars
17. by Emily Eden, 4 stars
18. by Ilona Andrews, 4 stars
19. by John Scalzi, 3 stars
20. by Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish, 4 stars
21. by Diana Wynne Jones, 4 stars
22. by Ben Macintyre, 5 stars
23. by Heather Fawcett, 2,5 stars
24. by Dennis E. Taylor, 3 stars
25. by Olivia Williams, 4 stars
26. by Valentine Low, 3 stars
27. by Charlie N. Holmberg, 3,5 stars
28. by Patrick Radden Keefe, 5 stars
29. by Alexander Larman, 3 stars
30. by Homer, 5 stars
31. by Carrie Fisher, no rating
32. by Edward Gross, 3 stars
33. by Antal Szerb, 5 stars
34. by Georgette Heyer, 1 star
35. by Richard Fletcher, 4 stars
36. by Robert Jackson Bennett, 5 stars
37. by Max Hastings, 3 stars
38. by Georgette Heyer, 3,5 stars
39. by Jo Walton, 4,5 stars
40. by Alexander Larman, 3 stars
41. by Ilona Andrews, 5 stars
42. by Gregg Hurwitz, 5 stars
43. by Ilona Andrews, 3 stars
44. by Dan Jones, 5 stars

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Books DNF-ed or removed from TBR shelf
1. by Scott Hawkins
2. by Seana Kelly
3. by Pirateaba
4. by Fredrik Backman

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End of the year:

Thank you, Sophie. It seems to have been translated into Hungarian but currently unavailable. Will do some digging. :))

:D

And with the upcoming Tolkien challenge I realised that I have to read Letters from Father Christmas to/with Domi, so we started yesterday and he seems to enjoy it. 😊

Also, thanks to Monsters-Wheel, he actually completed the goal he set for himself when I registered him on GR. He has read more than 25 books. By now he's at the 28th. 🥰

I was checking my TBR and -after hunting for a bigger image on the internet- saw that my audiobook, has the woman wearing flip-flops. It's on my TBR, not too long, not a summer book and almost seasonal, so yaaaay!

I'm going to claim it, but it will be quite a few days before I can get to it.