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1: A book you meant to read in 2015, but didn't
** okay so I'm behind! I didn't realize Dark Places, the movie had already been released!! Oh well! At least now I can watch it after I complete the book!!
What are you reading this week?Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
This was just a book from my reading list. I bought it at an airport at the end of 2014, but never ended up reading it.
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
I'm sure there is! I have a lot of books on my bookshelf that I have never read, so hopefully I can get them in this year!
What are you reading this week?Cujo
Was it a book from your 2015 Reading Challenge or just a book from your reading list?
It was just a book from my reading list. I'm a big Stephen King fan an: have been going back a rereading all his works on chronological order. I wanted to get to this one last year but didn't. This year I tried to fit a few more SK novels into my challenge so I could kill two birds with one stone.
Is there another 2015 book you will try to read this year?
No, this is the only book that I had intended to read last year but didn't.
My intention is to read in order and I will try to respect this as much as I can. What are you reading this week?
Champion by Marie Lu (I will finish this today, actually - hehe)
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It was on my reading read since forever. I wanted to read it last year too but I didn't get the chance to do so.
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare for sure and a few others.
Progress Post:- What are you reading this week?
A Secret Kept
This is a book that was on my bedside table for most of 2015 (I just joined GoodReads in December so I didn't have a challenge plan from last year). The reason that I didn't pick it up earlier is that so many of my bookclub friends said how they were very disappointed with it compared to the first Rey book they read: Sarah's Key.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
I also hope to read Gre Iles' Natchez Burning and The Bone Tree this year. I really wanted to read them in the summer but am waiting for my husband to read them first since I bought them for his birthday.
I am thinking now I may be able to save these for week 22 ( a new to me series) or week 46 (a crime story)
@Karen. I loved Sarah's Key. I haven't read Secret Kept but it is also in my TBR list. I look forward to hearing if you enjoyed the book.
- What are you reading this week?Landline by Rainbow Rowell
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It is just a book from my reading list. I was actually half way through the book, but I stopped in August of 2015.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
There's a lot of books from 2015 that are going to carry over into this year, so if I don't get to this book, I'm sure I will have plenty of other options.
What are you reading this week?The Quest
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I was planning on using it as a side read last year, but did not get to it.
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
A few, I spent last year adding to my TBR and find that I need to trim it down now.
What are you reading this week? Yes Please by Amy Poehler!
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I tried to read it last October, but I got busy and I lost my copy. I have since repurchased the book, and I'm loving it so far!
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Yes! I'm going to be reading
by Victoria Aveyard during Week 26!
Sorry about the weird link on the last line, I couldn't figure out how to fix it lol, it should still take you to the same book :)
My plan is to read in order as much as I can this year. The only thing that throws me off course is when a library book becomes available ahead of schedule.What are you reading this week?
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
Pretty sure that I had this on the list for week 3 a book that became a movie, but I changed it to The Book Thief
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Yes I have Go Set a Watchman on this list again!
- What are you reading this week?I am reading God Help the Child, by Toni Morrison.
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list? It was a book that came out in 2015, but I wasn't able to fit it in my challenge.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year? I don't recall any at the moment.
I only read out of order one time and it was because week 2's book was another book that I was supposed to read for another book club I'm in, but I will be reading in order for the rest of the challenge. However, i will probably be reading two books at a time within a two week period. - What are you reading this week?
I'm reading
by James Dashner- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It isn't a book that I deleted. The movie has been out for a while now and I've just been meaning to read this book for quite some time. The movie for the Scorch Trials is coming out soon so I'm trying to get prepared for it!
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
There will be many books that I was supposed to read in 2015 that I will read this year instead.
I finished The Brothers Karamazov. I was reading it mostly in 2015. It was the Nov/Dec book for the Goodreads group "Old Books, New Readers", which reads classics. It was not in my 2015 challenge, but I did mean to finish it last year and it slipped into January. So, it supplanted my other planned books.It was long but it was well worth it! I am still trying to collect my thoughts about it for a review. So many themes, so complex.
There are other books I meant to read last year but did not get to - I will try to slot those onto the challenge or will be side reads. Some are:
To the Lighthouse
Watership Down
The Bell Jar
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Carry On
Fatigue Artist
The Secret Garden
Wolf Hall
etc etc etc...
- What are you reading this week?Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It's a book taken from my 2015 Reading Challenge list (since I was sadly unable to finish the challenge last year)
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Probably! I don't have much of a plan yet though.
What are you reading this week?Emma and her Daughter by Linda Mitchelmore
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
This is a book from my long reading list that I was hoping to finish in 2015.
-Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
I have lots and lots of 2015 books I'm hoping to get through with this challenge.
- What are you reading this week?Playing Dead
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It's a book from my TBR list. As this is the first year, where I decided to write a plan of the books that I want to read.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Yes, my plan last year was to bring my TBR list to under 500 (which I didn't achieve). That is my goal for this year and to keep my TBR list to under 500.
Tina wrote: "- What are you reading this week?Zoo (James Patterson)
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
TBR.
Last year I w..."
I really liked the book. I watched the tv show too, but I am one of those that when the tv show is so different it drives me crazy!
I am trying to read in order, but I know it is not going to happen the entire year just the way the weeks line up. - What are you reading this week?
The Girls Of Mischief Bay by Susan Mallery
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
Just from my reading list...I have a shelf (or two) of books I bought but have not read. The next one in the series comes out soon, so I wanted to get this one done.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
LoL. As before mentioned- I have a couple of shelves to empty, so there are plenty. I tried to fit them into the 2016 challenge as much as possible.
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- What are you reading this week?
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I bought it last spring and have been meaning to read it.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
I'm sure there will be a significant number this year as there seem to be lots of good books released
- What are you reading this week? I read Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list? No, just didn't have time to read it.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year? Yes.
- What are you reading this week? One Vote; Make Your Voice Heard by Ben Carson- was it a book you deleted from your 2015 reading challenge or just a book from your reading challenge?
This is my first time doing a readings challenge! I bought this book last year but didn't finish it. For some reason I started a lot of books last year but didn't finish them
What are you reading this week?I'm actually reading two books for this week's topics.
Red Rising and Ready Player One
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
They weren't from my list last year, but they are two books I stumbled upon last year. Ready Player One I actually got in a LootCrate (I think in a 2014 box). As much as I wanted to read them last year I just was not able to fit them in.
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
HA! Most of my books this year are ones that I wanted to read last year, so I fit them in where I could.
Progress Post:- What are you reading this week?
The Hero of Ages, by Brandon Sanderson
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
Just a book from my reading list. I began reading this series in 2015, and never quite made it to the last one.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Definitely. With work and then maintaining a social life, I feel like the amount of time I have to read has gone down. It makes me sad, as I love reading. But, there are plenty of books I will hopefully try to read this year that I have had on my list for a long time.
I'm going to try my best to read in order. The library is already making that a challenge. Oh well.What are you reading this week?
Ruby
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It's both actually.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
I want to finish the Harry Potter series. And My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times
I am reading in order.What are you reading this week?
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
No it is just a book that I wanted to read in 2015
- What are you reading this week?The Hunger Games
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I started reading it right at the end of the year and didn't manage to complete it so I decided to let it count for this topic.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
There are quite a few books that I've brought over from last years list that I didn't manage to get around to reading. Emma, Everyday Sexism, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow, American Psycho, American Gods, The Black Dahlia, and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe were all originally on my list for last year and I still wanted to read them, despite not managing to last year.
What are you reading this week?The Peach Keeper
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It is a book from my 2015 reading list.
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
There are several. What alice forgot, Divergent , Firefly Lane
I am reading The Martian by Andy Weir.I started reading it in 2015 for my Reading Challenge but just couldn't get through it as the last weeks of 2015 were some of the most stressful and busy.
I would like to start and finish The Night Circus as I have started and never finished it a couple of times!
I am going to try to read in order as much as possible, we will see how that goes!What are you reading this week?
The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It's a book i have been meaning to read for a long time. I tried to read it in high school and I couldn't really get into it but I am enjoying it a lot more this time around!
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Oh lots... haha! I have so many books I mean to read and then get distracted by another book or fail to find the time.
- What are you reading this week?Never Never
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I kept moving this book around different weeks to fill last year's challenge, but my library never purchased it. I decided to just by it for this week since it's the best fit for this week.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
There were many new books that I discovered in 2015 that were added to my TBR list that i would like to read this year. The only other book however to be removed from my planned reading list was Walt Disney: An American Original
- What are you reading this week?I am reading Illuminae
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It was just a book that has been sitting on my TBR list since purchasing it back when it was first released.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Quite a few for sure! One I'm most excited about is A Little Life
I'll probably do Mara Dyer for this one, but there are a lot of other books that I could do for this.
Hi, longtime lurker, first time poster here. Was on the 2015 challenge page and never posted there either. - What are you reading this week?
Although I need to finish Midwives first since I have book club with that book next week. - Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
My sister let me borrow this for a beach trip back in July and I never got around to reading it so I figure I need to read it and give it back to her
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Yes several:
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to name a couple
Amber, I think I only posted once last year too, but I loved the challenge and reading what everyone else was reading. I am trying to be more active this year!
Reading this week: Such A Long Journey by Rohinton MistryI am new to the Reading Challenge so this is just a book from my reading list. However it is the oldest book on my reading list (purchased 2010!!) so I am glad I am finally getting to read it now.
Mandy wrote: "Amber, I think I only posted once last year too, but I loved the challenge and reading what everyone else was reading. I am trying to be more active this year!"My thoughts exactly!
Amber and Mandy, I hope we are going to see a lot of your posts this year! :)
I'm trying to read in order too.- What are you reading this week?
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It's a book a friend of mine recommended and I never really started to read it.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Quite a few actually. Luckily I managed to fit them all into the challenge.
Das Haupt der Welt by Rebecca Gablé in german.
Story of O by Pauline Reagé that a friend of mine recommended.
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges where I made it through a quarter of the book so far, but it's just so freaking long.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Where I also made it about halfway through.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett which I desperately wanted to read but just didn't have the time for.
And last but not least MaddAdam by Margaret Atwood that just has to wait for a few weeks longer.
My first time doing this challenge :) I read a lot but I wanted something to push me into reading different stuff.What are you reading this week?
The Mission by Bob Mayer/Robert Doherty
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I started reading it last year but got stuck so am trying again. I read the first two in the series and enjoyed them, but this one isn't nearly as good. Too much military waffle. It also doesn't help that the kindle version is missing a lot of the line spaces where the story switches from one set of characters to another, which makes it confusing for a second or two until you realise you've switched!
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Lots! :)
Killer by Jonathan Kellerman also The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
Loved all the books in the Dr Alex Delaware series Kellerman does an amazing job.
The Great Divorce was recommended by a friend last year and just now getting to it. A different kind of book for me and not what I was expecting from Lewis
- What are you reading this week?Slaughterhouse-Five
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
It was a book that I didn't get around to finishing from the 2015 reading challenge. I meant to read this for the "Author Never Read" week.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Yes, because there are several more that I couldn't start or finish in time! (The Goldfinch, Anne of Green Gables, and The Snow Child just to name a few...) But my reading goal is much less ambitious this year since some other priorities have popped up. I will still try to meet requirements of the weeks I can participate, but I'm definitely not going to be able to read one a week...
- What are you reading this week?Promise of Blood
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
My reading list I just didn't get around to reading it.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Hunting Season Under the Gun
- What are you reading this week?I'm counting City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg for this week, but because I finished it hours after ringing in the new year (and because I wanted to read these three books together,) I am also reading a couple with a similar setting (NYC arts scene in late 70s and 80s.)
I'll probably finish Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss by the end of the week, but I'll squeeze Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson in next week with whatever I find on another continent.
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I tried SO HARD to finish it in 2015, but failed. It's nearly 1000 pages, but I had 100 remaining when the ball dropped.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Unemployment has been good for my reading habit, so no.
I'm trying to do this in order this year, but we'll see. I also keep changing my list.Progress Post:
What are you reading this week? Saint Odd by Dean Koontz
Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list? Yes. I planned on reading this all last year.It was on my Finish What You Started lists almost EVERY month. NOW I'm FINALLY READING IT!
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year? Yes, quite a lot actually. Armada, The Night Sister, Hemlock Grove, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Memoirs of a Geisha, I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star, and The List of 7, to name a few. I think my list this year is made up mostly of books I couldn't get to in 2015.
- What are you reading this week?Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
I received this book for Christmas in 2014 and was really excited to read it when I got it, but I just never got around to reading it.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
I suppose there will be. I was finishing up my degree in 2015 so I put off a lot of books the last few years.
What are you reading this week? [bo[author:Sue Monk Kidd|4711]ok:The Invention of Wings|18079776] by Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list? I had this book on a number of challenge lists, but just didn't get to it. It kept getting bumped by other books I chose to read instead. I'm so glad I finally read it - what a great historical fiction.
Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year? I think I'll try At the Water's Edge next. I've read some of her other books and I'm hopeful I will enjoy this one as well. Another book I have to start is The Girl in the Spider's Web. It will be interesting to see if /how the writing has changed from the initial books of the series.
- What are you reading this week?
- Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list? This was a book I kept trying to find a spot for on my 2015 challenge but never found the right place for it.
- Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Luckiest Girl Alive was on another book that I was trying to find a spot for but never did; it is a good fit for week 3 this year. There will probably be others that get added along the way.
-What are you reading this week?Yes Please
-Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 Reading Challenge plan or just a book from your reading list?
This is my first year doing a reading challenge, so it's just from a list :)
-Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Quite a few I think, I'm not sure yet though lol
What are you reading this week?Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I actually started it last month, so I finished it already.
Is it from the 2015 list or your to-read list?
To-read! I found a copy of it in my mother's basement a fee years ago and have been meaning to read it. It was fantastic!
Are there other 2015 books you'll read?
This is my first group challenge, so nothing from last year's list, but I've got plenty on my to-read shelf.
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Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
-Was it a book you deleted from your 2015 reading challenge plan or just a book from your reading plan?
This is my first time doing a challenge plan. This book has just been on my reading list for awhile and I want to read it before the movie comes out.
-Is there another 2015 book you'll try to read this year?
Yes! The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen.