Lisa Ann's 2016 Reading Lists & Ambitions

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2016 Reading Plans:

Besides reading at least 12 books that I currently own, I plan to participate in as many monthly YLTO challenges as my schedule allows. I hope that will also help me to knock off my list some of the unread books that I own.

Lisa's 2016 TBR Personal Whittler Challenge:

Books Completed to Date:

1. The Fifth Gospel (Read in Jan; Noting that I read 61 pages out of 431 during Dec 2015)

2. Tears of the Giraffe (Read in Jan)

3. The Song of the Lark (Read in Jan/DNF)

4. Ready Player One (Read in Feb)

5. Rebecca (Read in Feb)

6. The Last Runaway (Read in Feb)

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(All books counted owned prior to January 2016)

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Monthly Reading Plans for 2016:

Plans for March:
Girl in Hyacinth Blue (YLTO monthly challenge; Books I Own))
The Book of Dragons (buddy read)
North and South (Female author; Books I Own))
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Bees)

Plans for April:

West with the Night
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
Group reads:??

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✔ Ebooks Fiction/Non Fiction Owned Prior to January 2016 ✔


1. The Art of Racing in the Rain
2. Astor Place Vintage
3. Bel Canto*
4. The Birth House
5. The Bloodletter's Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia
6. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
7. Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
8. Code Name Verity
9. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena*
10. The Day of the Storm
11. Gemini*
12. The Ghost Bride
13. The Girl Who Came Home
14. The Golem and the Jinni*
15. The Greatest Knight
16. The Group
✔17. The Highly Sensitive Person: (Read Feb 2016)
18. The House at Riverton*
19. Island Beneath the Sea
20. Katherine
21. The King's Curse
22. Lady of the English
23. Last Train to Istanbul
24. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
25. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
26. Me Before You*
27. The Pearl that Broke Its Shell*
28. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
✔29. Ready Player One*
30. The Silver Linings Playbook
31. The Snow Child*
32. Those Who Save Us
33. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry*
34. War Brides
35. The White Queen

EBooks Purchased During 2016:
✔ Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America: (Read Feb 2016)
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Secrets of the Steamship Chronicles

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✔ Classics Owned Prior to January 2016 ✔

The Age of Innocence
The Canterville Ghost
Dracula
The Enchanted Castle
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Gift of the Magi
The House of Mirth
An Ideal Husband
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Kilmeny of the Orchard
Lady Susan
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A Little Book of Christmas
Persuasion
My Ántonia
North and South
One of Ours
Out of Africa
Peter Pan
✔Rebecca* (Read Feb 2016)
Sense and Sensibility
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✔The Song of the Lark: (Read Jan 2016)
Pride and Prejudice

Classics Purchased During 2016:

✔The Book of Dragons: (Read March 2016)
Can You Forgive Her?
✔Alice in Wonderland*
Agnes Grey
To the Lighthouse (For April?)

✔ Print Books Owned Prior to 2016 ✔

✔The Fifth Gospel: (Read Jan 2016)
✔Tears of the Giraffe: (Read Jan 2016)
Morality for Beautiful Girls
The Lady and the Unicorn
✔The Last Runaway: (Read Feb 2016)
The Bronze Horseman
A Week in Winter
The Beginner's Guide to Walking the Buddha's Eightfold Path: (Reading for March)
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

Print Books Purchased During 2016:

[Stephanie]

Love love love The Art of Racing in the Rain!!!

[Tasha]

You have a lot of reading to do...better get crackin'! ;)

[Tasha]

What do the *s mean?

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Reserved

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Stephanie wrote: "Love love love The Art of Racing in the Rain!!!"

Thanks Stephanie! So glad to hear you enjoyed it. I bought it on sale and hope to get to it someday. *Sigh*

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Tasha wrote: "What do the *s mean?"

The asterisks are for Bee books. :)

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Tasha wrote: "You have a lot of reading to do...better get crackin'! ;)"

Ha!! I had planned to focus on getting through some of these wonderful books I bought on sale during the past two years but am not doing a very good job of it so far. I hope some of the upcoming monthly challenges will allow me to knock some of these off my tbr.

[Tasha]

I didn't notice that they were bee books!

[Cherie]

What is a bee book?

I noticed that you said you DNF The Song of the Lark. too slow? I listened to it on audio and really enjoyed the story. there were a few places it dragged, but I was doing yard work while I listened and it helped. I think it could have been shorter but I was determined to find out what happened to the MC. Even though I owned My Ántonia, I listened to the audio. I really liked that one!

[Tasha]

It's from another group we are in. It's called Busy as a Bee so we just call it bee or bees for short. :)

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Cherie- Yes, The Song of the Lark was too slow and I really didn't feel any connection to the characters. Many years ago, I recall reading and enjoying My Antonia. Since I don't remember most of the details from that one, I do plan to read it at some point. Hoping I like it the second time around. :)

Also, as Tasha mentioned a "Bee" book is for another group that Tasha and I belong to.