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Every Year Challenge - 2016
I'd really like to participate with 20 books (from 1996) I got 2/20
2007 : City of Bones
2011 : The Martian
Updated #1775/41
2008 - These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner
Update Message 297ETA 5/27 read
(Originally put this as 6/27 in error)
1997 - Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale
Funny and dark humor abound in this buddy mystery story featuring Hap , working class white East Texas good ole boy and Leonard, fiery black and gay guy living in 80/90's Texas . They're best friends who have each other's back which they need as trouble seems to have an easy time finding them.
Msg 177 updated. 6/41 books completed.2014 - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
I select the year that I move to Poland to mark a special event in my life2007:De qué hablo cuando hablo de correr
2008:
2009:
2010:
2011:
2012:¡Muuu!
2013:Life After Life
2014:
2015:The Witches: Salem, 1692
2016:
4/9
That will be 9 books for this one....
Update message 297 6/27
(message 416 put 6/27 in error when Bad Chili was really the 5th book read)
2005 Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill 3.5 Stars is the 6th book I've read for this challenge
Updated #198My birthday year - 1985
Completed: 2
Every Year Challenge
2005 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2012 - Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult
January update:Goal: 3/32
Turns out I read a lot more books published before my birth!
2015: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - 03 Jan 2016, 4/5
1997: Timequake - 22 Jan 2016, 3/5
2009: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 24 Jan 2016, 3/5
I think I will try this...going for every year since I got married.18/19
Note: Stopping here. I have read so many of the 2002 books already and I tried a bunch for this challenge and abandoned them all.
2002--Middlesex
Please update: 8/312016: Spider Game by Christine Feehan
2014: Learn How to Crochet Quick and Easy &
We Should All Be Feminist
2013: Orphan Train
2006: American Born Chinese
2005: Holly and Mistletoe
2001: Wild Seed
2000: The Dream by Kat Martin
1997: The Dream by Barbara Delinsky &
The Dream Comes True by B.Delinsky
25.8% of goal accomplished... 23 yrs left to cover!
Edited message 146 with books up until 1st February. Realised that my goal is 28 books not 27 as well!1990 - The Prince of Midnight - Laura Kinsale ★★★★★ 512 pages (03/01/16)
2004 - The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell ★★★★☆ (02/01/16)
2006 - The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson ★★★☆☆ 503 pages (23/01/16)
2007 - Magic Bites - Ilona Andrews ★★★☆☆ 260 pages (31/01/16)
2009 - The Child Thief - Brom ★★★★★ (06/01/16)
2011 - Bossypants - Tina Fey ★★★★☆ (26/01/16)
2012 - Cinder - Marissa Meyer ★★☆☆☆ (04/01/16)
2013 - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai ★★☆☆☆ (31/01/16)
2015 - Alice - Christina Henry ★★★★☆ 291 pages (12/01/15)
2016 - Feverborn - Karen Marie Moning ★★★★★ 512 pages (19/01/16)
10/28
Update: Completed 7/291988: Spock's World
✓ 1989: Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor
1990: Castle in the Air
1991: Outlander
1992: Wild Magic
1993: Arcadia
1994: Thank You for Smoking
1995: The Lost World
1996: Hogfather
1997: The Red Tent
✓ 1998: Ender's Shadow
1999: Timeline
2000: Storm Front
✓ 2001: Life of Pi
2002: Hoot
2003: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2004: Almost Like Being in Love
✓ 2005: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
2006: His Majesty's Dragon
✓ 2007: Soon I Will Be Invincible
2008: House of Many Ways
2009: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
2010: To Fetch a Thief
2011: The Wise Man's Fear
✓ 2012: How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
2013: Crown of Midnight
2014: Heir of Fire
✓ 2015: Star Wars: Before the Awakening
2016: Stars Above
Update Message 2977/27
2016 The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian 3.0 Stars
A bachelor party goes wrong when the hired strippers end up killing their 'bodyguards'. The party host's work and personal life devolve and the girls, who turn out to be victims of sex slavery, try to avoid the police and the people who want to kill them. -- Not as exciting as that sounds as it's more family drama than thriller --An ok pageturner.
Madison, what did you think of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? I unexpectedly loved that one when I read it last year.
In January I got through 2/32 books for this challenge. The witches of eastwick for my starting year 1984 and sharp objects for the year of 2013. Looking forward to making some headway in February!January Progress: 2/32
Cassandra, I was pleasantly surprised by it. I didn't expect much when I picked it up but it turned out to be great.
Cassandra wrote: "Alison, does that make two or three total read?"2 years, 3 books. I miscounted the years! My thread is on page 3 message 111
12/318. 1993- The Giver
15. 2000- Gathering Blue
18. 2003- Visions of Sugar Plums
19. 2004- Messenger
21. 2006- The Elegance of the Hedgehog
23. 2008- Identical
24. 2009- The Help
26. 2011- Liesl & Po
27. 2012- Wool Omnibus
28. 2013- Takedown Twenty
29. 2014- Top Secret Twenty-One
30. 2015- Go Set a Watchman
Update: 7/18Year: 2007
A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 1: Columbus to the Spanish-American War by Howard Zinn (5 stars)
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1985-Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
1986- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
1987- Patriot Games
1988-Preludes and Nocturnes
1989- The Hobbit: Graphic Novel
1990- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
1991- Maus II : And Here My Troubles Began
1992- The Last Wish
1993- Dreams Underfoot
1994- Into the Land of the Unicorns
1995- currently reading: Soccer in Sun and Shadow
1996-Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words
1997- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
1998- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1999-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2000-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2001: The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
2002-The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
2003- The Kite Runner
2004- Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love
2005- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2006-Mistborn
2007- Water for Elephants
2008- Paper Towns
2009- The Last Child
2010- The Kitchen House
2011- The Martian
2012-The Raven Boys
2013- Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
2014- Perfect Days
2015- An Ember in the Ashes
2016- Salt to the Sea
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