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This is the last time I'm doing this challenge. I always miserably fail due to the library.🙃TBR TACKLER 2023
Coathanger: 0/12
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January 31 (#957) - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
February___ (#176) - The Song of Achilles
List:
#146 - Euphoria
#301 - The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
#357 - Foe
#393 - The Dry
#494 - Children of Time
#724 - Magic Bites
#730 - Annihilation
#778 - The Age of Innocence
#832 - Cantoras
#922 - Queenie
PART II(view spoiler)
LEFTOVERS 2020(view spoiler)
LEFTOVERS 2019(view spoiler)
LEFTOVERS 2018(view spoiler)
LEFTOVERS 2017(view spoiler)
📚CLEANING OUT THE TBR CLOSET 2023📚Duration: January 2023 - December 2023
Humble goal: 21/30
TBR start: 1063
TBR finish:
Sorry for cluttering the thread with my massive list, but I've noticed I need visuals otherwise I just space out on the task. Taking 3 posts.
PART I
🌵1. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
2. Mrzla koža - Albert Sánchez Piñol
3. Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
🌵4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
5. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
🌵6. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
7. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
8. The Naturalist - Andrew Mayne
9. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
10. Kao da me nema - Slavenka Drakulić
11. Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
12. Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice - Curtis Sittenfeld
13. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
14. Cujo - Stephen King
15. Dirty - Kylie Scott
🌵16. The Dry - Jane Harper
17. Behind Closed Doors - B. A. Paris
18. Judas - Amos Oz
19. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster - Svetlana Alexievich
20. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi
21. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
22. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert
23. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay
🌵24. Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
25. Muzej nedolžnosti - Orhan Pamuk
26. The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
27. Ljubiti nekoga z bipolarno motnjo - Julie A. Fast
28. Cocaine Blues - Kerry Greenwood
29. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
30. The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
31. Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
32. Next Year in Havana - Chanel Cleeton
33. The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan
🌵34. My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
35. Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek
36. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
🌵37. In the Woods - Tana French
PART II
38. I'll Never Tell - Catherine McKenzie
🌵39. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara
40. Reconstructing Amelia - Kimberly McCreight
41. Dread Nation - Justina Ireland
42. We, the Drowned - Carsten Jensen
43. Exhalation - Ted Chiang
44. And Shall Machines Surrender - Benjanun Sriduangkaew
45. The Lesser Dead - Christopher Buehlman
46. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - Kate Moore
47. Suffer the Children - Craig DiLouie
48. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life - Emily Nagoski
49. Sunstone, Vol. 1 - Stjepan Šejić
🌵50. The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon
51. The Devourers - Indra Das
52. Dirty Uncle - Alexa Riley
53. Ready to Run - Lauren Layne
54. Alice - Christina Henry
55. Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert
56. A Princess in Theory - Alyssa Cole
57. The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
58. Intercepted - Alexa Martin
59. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
60. Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson - Lyndsay Faye
61. Planetfall - Emma Newman
62. Sutphin Boulevard - Santino Hassell
63. The Muse - Jessie Burton
64. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
65. The Tiger’s Daughter - K. Arsenault Rivera
66. Red Sister - Mark Lawrence
67. Foe - Iain Reid
68. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock - Imogen Hermes Gowar
69. Mann Cakes - Mysti Parker
70. Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey
71. The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney
72. And I Darken - Kiersten White
73. Kill Creek - Scott Thomas
74. The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling
75. Listen to Me - Kristen Proby
76. Eleanor & Grey - Brittainy C. Cherry
⚜️Series to continue
🌵Imagines - N.R. Walker
tista arheologinja⚜️Series to finish
🌵The Last Olympian
LEFTOVERS 2022
PART I
77. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
78. The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl - Bruna Surfistinha
79. The Three - Sarah Lotz
80. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
81. Léon in Louise - Alex Capus
82. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
83. Vas jebe ego? - Ingrid Divkovič
84. Temelji naše državnosti - France Bučar
85. Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly
86. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
87. #Girlboss - Sophia Amoruso
88. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
89. Superženska je v tebi - Anette Ellegaard
90. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
91. Complete Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
92. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
🌵93. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
94. Three Seconds - Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström
95. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
96. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
#1
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ( 36h 47min) better not listen to lee horsley version - in some cases is a standalone, in other a first or third book in a series 🤷
Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.
#2
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb (34h 20min) - first book in a trilogy
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.
For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will.
#3
Middlemarch by George Eliot (32h 23min)
A passionate young woman's search for a rewarding and meaningful life unfolds in Middlemarch, an English town taking its first steps toward modernization. From tradesmen to gentry, the provincial community's residents form a microcosm of political and social change during the 1830s. The shifting perspectives ― including those of idealistic Dorothea Brooke, ambitious Dr. Lydgate, prodigal Fred Vincy, and faithful Mary Garth ― provide a timeless array of observations on human nature, drawn with subtlety, depth, and humor.
Tina wrote: "I'm a weirdo that sets up a monthly challenges TBR spreadsheet ahead of time so I'm not scrambling at the end of the year. I know how many books I can read a month and leave room to add mood reads ..."I wish I would be that organized with my reading. I'm all over the place.
I was supposed to update my progress every three months, but did I? No. I read pretty decent amount of books, I surprised even myself. So here is a first batch of 5 books before I forget everything about them.
#1
The Amber Spyglass -Philip Pullman
★★★★★
Loved it. The whole series. I thought this is going to be one of those middle-grade series that run just to young for me, but boy did it surprised me in the most beautiful way. Goes on the all time favourite books shelf without a doubt and I am looking to get myself a copy of all three and rereading them in the future.
I added "series to finish" this year and so far this is the only series I finished. I really need a kick in my ass.
#2
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
★★★
Somehow I managed not to read this as a child, although I think everybody knows a least what the story is about. I got a copy of it with my e-reader so I decided it is time to delve in. Now I did in the end listen to it on audio, which was really good, but I was confused half of the time. So I decided to reread it next year becuase we got a nifty new translation this year and see if I'll have a better experience if I read it.
#3
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls - Lauren Graham
★★★
Now I am a fan of Gilmore Girls (not all season though). Got this one ages ago and I refused to read it because it was supposed to spoil the movie. I still haven't watched the movie and I don't think I ever will to be honest. But back to the book. It is an autobiography - short but sweet - about Lauren and her career as an actress. And it really shows how luck and conections do matter and not everyone with the talent succeeds. She tells how she got into acting, the acting school, the reality of finding a job in this profession in theatre and on screen. And yes, there is a good chunk dedicated to the filming of Gilmore Girls. She does say it feels to her like a blur and in such a state it also translates on paper, very rushed and not in to much detail as I would like it. But nevertheless a charming book for fans of Lauren or GG.
#4
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
★★★★
Laura lives an isolated life with her father in a castle surrounded with forest when one day a beautiful and mysterious young lady named Carmilla ends up at their door. They readily welcome her in so she would recover from what its ailing her. But is she really sick or is there something else that they don't know. A delicious atmospheric gothic tale of a vampire. Quite different, very female centered, homoerotic and eerie novella. I was pleasantly surprised. I have to read more from him.
#5
Carrie -Stephen King
★★
There is so much pop culture references regarding this book or the movie, so I got intrigued enough to get a copy. Carrie is a 16 year old girl who is consistently mocked and bullied at school. When she develops telekinetic powers she goes off the rails and madness ensues. What can I say, the premise sounds good, but to be honest this is the worst King book I have read. The sappy voice on the audiobook didn't help in making it better. A hard pass if you are contemplating on reading it.
Ok, dumb question #2: I got mistery as a first task. Do I go and read a mistery, fill the empty spaces and then hit the direction I want to go OR I need to pick direction and read a mistery that corresponds with the direction (lets say south> mistery title that starts with N-Z?) Oh boy, I'm mentally challenged🙃
Sign me up for the easy level, please.
Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap
Vicious, vindicating, and visceral at once, Never Have I Ever balances compulsively readable humor with the good, transformative sort of devastation. This is a truly powerful, propulsive collection, exploring the makings and reshapings of myth, and the myriad ways we might save each other. Each character is vividly drawn, be it an exhausted magical girl wondering if she and her friends will ever be done slaying monsters, a servant in love with her charge, or the disbelieving new roommate of a vaguely discontented manananggal. Her stories tread somewhere between familiar and uncanny, interrogating human connection and monstrosity, and all unapologetically, beautifully Filipino. Each story with its own specific atmosphere, each its own sort of spirit, each sure to haunt the reader in its own uncanny shape. Here, magic makes mirrors of us, and we won’t always like what we see. Yap writes with an expert hand as she moves the reader through the looming horror and magic of what it is to be alive.
I'm doing another round.2022 NBRC Around the World in 80 Days Challenge Round 2
Duration: jan 1st 2022 -
Country: Slovenia
Level: Platinum 13+ books
Progress: 2/13
1. Ireland: Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
2. Canada: Room - Emma Donoghue
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Leftovers 192. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
193. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
194. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
195. Old Surehand I - Karl May
196. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
197. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
🌵198. The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science - Andrea Wulf
199. Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense - Joyce Carol Oates
200. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
201. Beloved - Toni Morrison
202. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
203. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
204. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
205. Napoleon - Alan Forrest
206. Na stičišču svetov - Slovenska zgodovina od prazgodovinskih kultur do konca 18. stoletja - Peter Štih
207. Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
🌵208. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
209. Ti povem zgodbo? - Jorge Bucay
210. World War I: The Definitive Visual History from Sarajevo to Versailles - R.G. Grant
🌵211. To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death - Mark O'Connell
212. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ - Giulia Enders
213. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
214. Haut nah: Alles über unser größtes Organ - Yael Adler
215. Sledovi potujočih duš: Vedomci, kresniki in sorodna bajna bitja - Zmago Šmitek
216. The Terror - Dan Simmons
217. The Romanovs: 1613-1918 - Simon Sebag Montefiore
218. A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay
219. Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
220. The Good People - Hannah Kent
221. The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman
🌵222. The Diviners - Libba Bray
151. Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
223. Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant
224. The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
225. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
226. The Silent Companions - Laura Purcell
🌵227. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty
228. Euphoria - Lily King
🌵229. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
230. The Fair Fight - Anna Freeman
231. The Passion of Dolssa - Julie Berry
🌵232. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
233. The City & the City - China Miéville
⚜️Leftovers from 2019⚜️
234. Fatimina dlan : zgodovinski roman o fantu, razpetem med dve veri in dve ljubezni - Ildefonso Falcones
235. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
236. The World According to Garp - John Irving
237. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
🌵238. Room - Emma Donoghue
239. The Shack - William P. Young
240. The Dark Side of Love - Rafik Schami
241. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzal
242. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
243. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
244. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstein
245. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
🍥246. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
247. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
248. I Am Legend and Other Stories - Richard Matheson
249. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
250. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
251. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
252. Atonement - Ian McEwan
253. Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
254. Before You Know Kindness - Chris Bohjalian
255. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
256. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
257.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
258. Mutiny On The Bounty - John Boyne
259. The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
260. The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
261. Beneške oči - Alessandro Barbero
262. Marija Terezija : velika Habsburžanka - Franz Herre
263. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime - Val McDermid
⚜️Leftovers from 2018 ⚜️
264. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
265. Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
266. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
🌵267. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
268. Pravila treh - Marjolijn Hof
269. Novorojen - Margaret Mazzantini
270. Zdravnik - Noah Gordon
271. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
272. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
273. House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus
274. Katarina, pav in jezuit - Drago Janičar
275. The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvani
276. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (half read)
277. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
278. Winona's Web: A Novel of Discovery - Priscilla Cogan
279. The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreth
280. Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep - Siba Shakib
281. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
282. Uroki ljubezni - uroki smrti - Alma M. Karlin
📍283. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
284. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (half read)
285. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
286. Kraljevske norčije: Zgodovina škandalov na evropskih dvorih - Karl Shaw
🍥287. Skrivna zgodovina - Donna Tartt
🌵288. You - Caroline Kepnes
🌵289. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
290. Dauntless - Jack Campbell
⚜️Leftovers from 2017 ⚜️
291. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
292. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
293. Io sono Dio by Giorgio Faletti
294. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
295. Dolina konj by Jean M. Auel (half read)
296. Formule ljubezni - Ne zapravimo življenja v iskanju prave ljubezni - Zoran Milivojević
LEFTOVERS⚜️Leftovers from 2021⚜️
PART I
96. Samorogove sence - Raquel Martínez-Gómez
97. Desiree - Annemarie Selinko
98. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
99. The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
100. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
101. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré
102. Erebos - Ursula Poznanski
103. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
104. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - Miguel Ruiz
105. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
106. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
107. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
108. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
109. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
🌵110. La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert - Joël Dicker
111. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
112. The Chemist - Stephenie Meyer
113. The Sultan's Harem - Colin Falconer
114. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
115. Bobri - Janez Jalen
116. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
117. When the Cypress Whispers - Yvette Manessis Corporon
118. The Queen of the Tearling - Erika Johansen
119. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
120. Geneza - Bernard Beckett
121. Bojna pesem mame tigrice - Amy Chua
122. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
123. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
124. Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers - David Perlmutter
125. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
🌵126. The Vegetarian - Han Kang
127. The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff
128. The Widow - Fiona Barton
129. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
130. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
131. Natašin ples : kulturna zgodovina Rusije - Orlando Figes
132. Globalni minotaver: Amerika, Evropa in prihodnost svetovnega gospodarstva - Yanis Varoufakis
133. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
134. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
135. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear - Elizabeth Gilbert
136. Kar ni pekel - Alessandro D'Avenia
137. Sacro egoismo : Slovenci v krempljih tajnega londonskega pakta 1915 - Uroš Lipušček
138. Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel
139. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ - Daniel Goleman
140. Beautiful Bastard - Christina Lauren
141. Wallbanger - Alice Clayton
PART II
142. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
143. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry - Jon Ronson
144. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History - Bill Schutt
145. Mr. Rochester - Sarah Shoemaker
146. Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
🌵147. Old Man's War - John Scalzi
148. Hope and Red - Jon Skovron
149. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
150. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
151. Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe - Sarah Gristwood
152. Strange Practice - Vivian Shaw
153. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
🌵154. The Nix - Nathan Hill
155. Sharp Shooter - Marianne Delacourt
156. The Devil's Revolver - V. S. McGrath
157. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
158. More Human than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity - Neil Clark
159. A God in the Shed - J. F. Dubeau
160. Silent Scream - Angela Marsons
161. Obscura - Joe Hart
162. Ghost Talkers - Mary Robinette Kowal
163. City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennett
164. It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover
🌵165. Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
166. Traitor's Blade - Sebastien de Castell
167. The Hook Up- Kristen Callihan
168. Mister Romance - Leisa Rayven
169. The Passage - Justin Cronin
170. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale
171. His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
172. Misbehaved - Charleigh Rose
173. Him - Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy
🌵174. The Troop - Nick Cutter
175. The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill
176. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness - Sy Montgomery
177. Magic Bites - Ilona Andrews
178. The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson
179. The Butcher's Hook - Janet Ellis
180. Unraveling Oliver - Liz Nugent
🌵181. Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
⚜️Leftovers from 2020 ⚜️
182. V Sibilinem vetru by Alojz Rebula
183. Slow Heat in Heaven by Sandra Brown
184. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
185. The Swede by Robert Karjel
186. Keltove sanje by Mario Vargas Llosa
187. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
🍥188. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
🍥189. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
🍥190. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
191. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
📚Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2022📚Duration: January 2022 - December 2022
Humble goal: 29/30
Sorry for cluttering the thread with my massive list, but I've noticed I need visuals otherwise I just space out on the task.
PART I
1. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
2. The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl - Bruna Surfistinha
3. The Three - Sarah Lotz
4. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
5. Léon in Louise - Alex Capus
6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
7. Vas jebe ego? - Ingrid Divkovič
8. Temelji naše državnosti - France Bučar
9. Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly
10. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
11. #Girlboss - Sophia Amoruso
🌵12. Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
13. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
14. Superženska je v tebi - Anette Ellegaard
15. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
16. Complete Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
18. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
19. Three Seconds - Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström
20. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
21. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
22. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
23. The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
24. The Deal - Elle Kennedy
25. Rdeča kot kri : prva knjiga trilogije Sneguljčica - Salla Simukka
26. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
🌵27. Dune - Frank Herbert
28. Trgovinica za samomore - Jean Teule
29. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
30. Burned Alive - Souad
31. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
32. Laurus - Eugene Vodolazkin
33. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
🌵34. The Simple Wild - K. A. Tucker
35. The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
36. The Undertaker's Widow - Phillip Margolin
37. Usodna emonska lepotica - Ivan Sivec
38. Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence - Peter Mayle
39. Wetlands - Charlotte Roche
40. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
🌵41. Carrie - Stephen King
🌵42. Jaws - Peter Benckley
🌵43. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
44. Middlemarch - George Eliot
45. Ljubezen po teksaško - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
46. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
PART II
🌵47. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls - Lauren Graham
48. Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates
49. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
50. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
51. The Guns Above - Robyn Bennis
52. Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
53. The Assassin's Curse - Cassandra Rose Clark
54. Night Film - Marisha Pessl
55. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston
56. Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk
57. Lonesome Dove - Larry Mcmurtry
58. Stay with Me - Ayobami Adebayo
59. Borrowed Souls - Chelsea Mueller
60. Widdershins - Jordan L. Hawk
61. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors - Curtis Craddock
62. The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus
63. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
64. Barbary Station - R. E. Stearns
65. The Vagina Monologues -
66. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - Catherynne M. Valente
67. 51 Sleepless Nights - Tobias Wade
68. Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
69. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
70. Death and Relaxation - Devon Monk
71. Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel
72. Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse
73. Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
74. Man Hands - Sarina Bowen & Tanya Eby
75. Ross Poldark - Winston Graham
76. The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant
🌵77. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
78. Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough
79. A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
80. Saga, Vol. 1 - Brian K. Vughan
81. The Humans - Matt Haig
82. Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
83. Kill the Farm Boy - Delilah S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne
84. Sometimes I Lie - Alice Feeney
85. Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits - David Wong
86. Why God is a Woman - Nin Andrews
🌵87. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
88. The Book of Essie - Meghan Maclean Weir
89. The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation - Rich Cohen
90. The Fireman - Joe Hill
91. The Foxe & the Hound - R. S. Grey
92. Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb
93. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
94. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
95. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
⚜️Series to continue
⚜️Series to finish
🌵The Amber Spyglass
🌵The Battle of the Labyrinth
Harry Potter Sorting Hat ChallengeLevel: Easy (12/0)
Date Started:
Date Finished:
Winner:
Hufflepuff vs. Ravenclaw
Hufflepuff
➲ Helga Hufflepuff, the founder of Hufflepuff, was a witch during medieval times: Read a book that is set in a medieval time period (between 5th to the 15th century)
➲ Hufflepuff's emblematic colors are yellow and black: Read a book that has a predominately yellow or black cover.
➲ Fat Friar, the house ghost of Hufflepuff, dedicated his life to religion: Read a book about someone who is extremely religious.
➲ Members of Hufflepuff are described as hard working, patient, and loyal: Read a book in which the protagonist portrays one of these qualities consistently throughout the book.
➲ The relic of Helga Hufflepuff used by Voldemort as a Horcrux was a small golden cup. Read a book with a cup on the cover.
➲ Helga Hufflepuff was known to be skilled with food related charms, Harry Potter wikia states, the basis of her charms are still used for Hogwarts feasts. Read a book with food on the cover.
Ravenclaw
➲ Ravenclaw's emblematic animal is the eagle: Read a book which features an eagle on the cover or in the story. You can also read a book about someone who can shape shift into a bird of any type.
➲ Ravenclaw's emblematic colors are blue and bronze: Read a book that has a predominately blue or bronze cover.
➲ Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of Ravenclaw, was Scottish: Read a book that takes place in Scotland.
➲ Members of Ravenclaw are described as intelligent, witty, and wise: Read a book in which the protagonist is scholarly, bookish, all knowing, etc...
➲ Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem was a magical artifact that was charmed to enhance the intelligence of the wearer. Read a book with a pronounced diadem, crown, etc. on the cover.
➲ Rowena Ravenclaw's daughter, Helena, who was murdered by the Baron, was the ghost of Ravenclaw known as the Grey Lady. Read a book that either has an author or main character's name is Helena/Helen or that has the word "Grey" or "Lady" in the title.
New 2 U Authors 2022Level: Come What May
Read: 32 books
January (4)
1. Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
3. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
4. Room - Emma Donoghue
February(2)
5. You - Caroline Kepnes
6. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls - Lauren Graham
March(2)
7. Old Man's War - John Scalzi
8. The Simple Wild - K. A. Tucker
April(4)
9. To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death - Mark O'Connell
10. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
11. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
12. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
May(3)
13. The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science - Andrea Wulf
14. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
15. The Nix - Nathan Hill
June(3)
16. The Vegetarian - Han Kang
17. La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert - Joël Dicker
18. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
July(3)
19. Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
20. Ice Planet Barbarians - Ruby Dixon
21. Never Have I Ever - Isabel Yap
August(3)
22. The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
23. The Troop - Nick Cutter
24. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty
September(1)
25. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me - Mariana Zapata
October(4)
26. Dune - Frank Herbert
27. Jaws - Peter Benchley
28. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Stephen Brusatte
29. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold
November(2)
30. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
31. The Diviners - Libba Bray
December(1)
32. Written in the Stars - Alexandria Bellefleur
TBR Tackler 2022Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2022
Coathanger: 9-17 books
Read: 0/12
January____: #342 - Room
#19 - Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
#178 - Stay with Me
#305 - The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
#355 - The Kiss Quotient
#452 - Homegoing
#469 - Traitor's Blade
#594 - All Systems Red
#675 - The Troop
#711 - Cousin Bette
#826 - Mexican Gothic
#903 - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Author Alphabet Challenge 2022Duration: 1. Januar - 31 December
✔A. - Austen, Jane - Emma
✔B. - Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
✔C. - Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
✔D. - Djeli, P. Clark - A Dead Djinn in Cairo
✔E. - Emma Donoghue - Room
✔F. - Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
✔G. - Gail Carriger - Blameless
✔H. - Han Kang - The Vegetarian
✔I. - Isabel Yap - Never Have I Ever
✔J. - James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
✔K. - King, Stephen - Carrie
✔L. - Lefanu, Joseph Sheridan Carmilla
✔M. - Mark O'Connell - To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
✔N. - Nathan Hill - The Nix
✔O. - Octavia E. Butler - Kindred
✔P. - Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
Q. -
✔R. - Rick Riordan - The Battle of the Labyrinth
✔S. - Scalzi, John - Old Man's War
✔T. - Tucker, K. A. - The Simple Wild
U. -
V. -
✔W. - Wulf, Andrea - The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
X. - Roxane Gay - Difficult Women
✔Y. - Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
✔Z. - Zapata, Mariana - The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
I'm so happy to see Richard Armitage fans here. I'll probably read Bloody Chamber in the fall just to have my fix.
Eldarwen wrote: "Weeeeell, I am finally going to start it this month. Only 7 months late hahaha. But that is typical ;-)"I started it in July. Glad I'm not the only one 😁
Some catching up to do.
