Elyse's Read What You Own Challenge!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Now that we're starting at the the beginning of the year, I'm fully confident I can read 30 books off of my bookshelves! I had to roll over 8 books from last year's challenge.

1. Only Time Will Tell won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 2/28/14 2/5
2. The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 7/23/16 3/5
3. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death won signed copy from Laurell K. Hamilton 2016 3/5
4. The Color of Fire yard sale 3/5
5. The Mermaid Girl: A Story won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 10/6/16 3/5
6. Hannah's Winter 2016 Usborne Books Party Purchase 3/5
7. And Then There Were None yard sale 5/5
8. Of Mice and Men yard sale 3/5
9. The Color Purple yard sale 3/5
10. The Color of Fire consignment store 2/5
11. The Gunslinger received from my mom's collection 3/5
12. This Year It Will Be Different, and other stories yard sale 2/5
13. The Knights of Christmas received from my mom's collection 3/5
14. Full Dark, No Stars Audible purchase 2016 5/5
15. Misery yard sale 5/5
16. Skeleton Crew yard sale 4/5
17. The Drawing of the Three received from my mom's collection 3/5
18. The Shining yard sale 5/5
19. 11.22.63 Kindle purchase 2013 2/5
20. Virtuosity Kindle owned since 2013 3/5
21. The Witches of Eastwick Physical owned since before 2017 3/5
22. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Kindle owned since 2012 4/5
23. Passager Physical owned since before 2017 3/5
24. Room Kindle owned since 2013 3/5

1. The Sentinel won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 12/2/13
2. The Bone Clocks won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 8/2/14
3. The Doubt Factory won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 2/10/15
4. Promise Me Darkness won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 5/4/16
5. Certain Dark Things won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 9/13/16
6. First Comes Love won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 7/23/16
7. Dangerous Creatures won signed paperback in online auction 2016
8. Dangerous Deception won signed paperback in online auction 2016
9. The Lovely Reckless won signed paperback in online auction 2016
10. Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier yard sale
11. Rebel Genius won paperback in Goodreads Giveaway 9/12/16
12. Still Life yard sale
13. Invisible received for X-Mas Yankee Swap 2015
14. Deep Freeze received for X-Mas Yankee Swap 2015
15. Geekerella won BookRiot Giveaway 2016
16. The Woman in Cabin 10 Book of the Month Club 2016
17. I Let You Go Book of the Month Club 2016
18. Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations Book of the Month Club 2016
19. Butterflies 2016 Usborne Books Party Purchase
20. The Singer's Crown Physical owned since before 2017
21. The Shack Physical owned since before 2017

[Elyse, Moderator]

I finally started reading my first book, off my Goodreads Giveaways shelf - Only Time Will Tell.

And I've also spent the last couple of days compiling my list of series that I need to continue and/or finish. It's a large list. lol. My next task which I'm currently doing, is figuring out what I own out of said series list to complete these series. So I will also add those books to my Read What You Own! *whew* Lots of work.

[Elyse, Moderator]

I started and finished Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death yesterday and today. I won it from Laurell K. Hamilton's website last year.

[Andrea, Moderator]

Who knew reading would be so much work....lol

[Elyse, Moderator]

lol I know! But so enjoyable. Just being surrounded by books and writing about books is wonderful! <3

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished Only Time Will Tell. Gah.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World during our Readathon. It was alright.

[Dawn Michelle]

Oh. "Of Mice and Men" is one of my all-time favorites. I adore that book so much!!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Dawn Michelle wrote: "Oh. "Of Mice and Men" is one of my all-time favorites. I adore that book so much!!"

I've never read it! I found it and was like oh wow this is so short! So I added it to my stack. :) I got an new bookcase and got to empty 2 more totes of books! Only 2 totes left! But I need more bookcases. lol

[Dawn Michelle]

YAY for new books. And book shelves!! And YAY for only have two totes left to empty!!! That has got to be a great feeling. Maybe as you read these books and take them off your shelves, you can add from the remaining totes? :-D

[Elyse, Moderator]

Dawn Michelle wrote: "YAY for new books. And book shelves!! And YAY for only have two totes left to empty!!! That has got to be a great feeling. Maybe as you read these books and take them off your shelves, you can add ..."

Yeah, I'm not reading nearly as much off my shelves as I should be. lol. And today I bought my final 2 bookcases!! I'm so excited! I will have them in 2 weeks and then my library will be complete! Except that I will have to finally organize them alphabetically by author...

[Elyse, Moderator]

Whoops I finished Of Mice and Men a few weeks ago and I also read The Mermaid Girl, which was only 20-something pages. Haven't worked on any others yet. Ahhh!

But my library is *finished*! Every book I own is on a bookcase and they're all alphabetized by author! So exciting!

[Dawn Michelle]

WHOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOO!!! It is always so satisfying to have things in their proper place.

[Joy]

Wow. You could come to my office and alphabetize my shelves. Be warned, there are LOTS of them.

[Stacie]

Elyse wrote: "But my library is *finished*! Every book I own is on a bookcase and they're all alphabetized by author! So exciting!..."

So jealous! I don't have enough shelving for all the books I own, so I still have a lot of them in boxes in the garage. (I need 2-3 more tall book cases... I'm working on it :p )

[Elyse, Moderator]

Dawn Michelle wrote: "WHOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOO!!! It is always so satisfying to have things in their proper place."

OMG it's SO satisfying. I love just sitting my library gazing at the shelves.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Joy wrote: "Wow. You could come to my office and alphabetize my shelves. Be warned, there are LOTS of them."

lol not as fun when they're someone else's books! ;)

[Elyse, Moderator]

Stacie wrote: "Elyse wrote: "But my library is *finished*! Every book I own is on a bookcase and they're all alphabetized by author! So exciting!..."

So jealous! I don't have enough shelving for all the books I ..."

Took me 12 years to get all of my books in one place and out of totes! And took me a year almost exactly to complete my library, bookcases being what I needed! lol.

[Elyse, Moderator]

So far behind on this...but I decided to stop checking out at the library AND e-library after this last stint of books I have so I can focus on this challenge!! I can do it! lol. But I still will keep my holds and read those when they become available. Which in some cases will be MOOONTHS. Which is good! :)

[Joy]

I'm not doing very well on it right now either. I have too many ARCs from NetGalley and have been using the eLibrary a lot. Fortunately for us, it's only May, so we have lots of the year left to work on it. :-)

[Elyse, Moderator]

Joy wrote: "I'm not doing very well on it right now either. I have too many ARCs from NetGalley and have been using the eLibrary a lot. Fortunately for us, it's only May, so we have lots of the year left to wo..."

That's what I'm glad about! lol. I have a TON of NetGalley ARCs. I stopped requesting because I can't keep up with them. :/

[Joy]

I always tell myself that and then when I go to look at my shelf, I magically request some more.

[Dawn Michelle]

So alongside the Book Rehab we all need to go to, we all need a NetGalley Rehab too?? LOL LOL

[JanB]

YES!! Add me to the NG Rehab group too! It's stressing me out, I have a twitchy NG finger. Then I read my the GR updates and e-mail bookish newsletters, add more books I want to read then request some from the library which of course all come in at once. Then there's the unread books on my bookshelf.
I think I'm afraid if I don't buy them or request them RIGHT NOW I'll forget about a fabulous book. Which happens. I have books on my tbr shelf on GR that I don't remember why I put them there or who suggested it. But what also happens is once I own them I relax about needing to read it immediately.
It's a problem! Lol

[Elyse, Moderator]

JanB wrote: "YES!! Add me to the NG Rehab group too! It's stressing me out, I have a twitchy NG finger. Then I read my the GR updates and e-mail bookish newsletters, add more books I want to read then request s..."

Jan, I'm the same way! I need to get my hands on it fast and then I can put it to the side. I really need to go through my Goodreads TBR because I now have over 10,000 books!! Eep! I know that I used to add like crazy when I was entering the giveaways and I wasn't really interested in a lot of them, I just wanted free books. lol.

And yes, we definitely all need any sort of Book Rehab. lol. But I love my addiction! It could be so much worse! ;) It's certainly not bad for your health! And not the wallet either with ARCs and library! hehe.

[Elyse, Moderator]

I read And Then There Were None and The Color of Fire this weekend and started Hannah's Winter, only 32 pages in. But I can't just read these during Readathons! lol

[Elyse, Moderator]

Whoops! I finished Hannah's Winter! lol. I will be taking The Gunslinger with me on our trip to Montreal.

[Elyse, Moderator]

About halfway through The Gunslinger. Hoping to finish that before this weekend and *maybe* squeezing in one of my RWYO books for this weekend's Readathon! Don't know which yet. Probably will just wait!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished The Gunslinger yesterday.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished The Color Purple today.

[Elyse, Moderator]

I still want to read the books on my list but I've added some more that I read for Christmas in July Readathon.

This Year It Will Be Different, and other stories
The Knights of Christmas

[Andrea, Moderator]

Come on Elyse, I'm cheering you on girl!!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Andrea wrote: "Come on Elyse, I'm cheering you on girl!!"

Oh no, I don't think this is happening. lol. As long as I can get done the books I'm using for other challenges I'll be happy. This is very last on my list of challenges!

[Andrea, Moderator]

I can understand that, Elyse! Last year doing the ABC challenge was all consuming...lol

[Stacie]

Elyse wrote: "
Oh no, I don't think this is happening. lol. As long as I can get done the books I'm using for other challenges I'll be happy. This is ver..."

Yeah, I know how that goes! I've managed to knock two off the list I made at the beginning of the year! (At least I've been reading some things that I've owned for a while, but none of them are the one's I planned, LOL!)

[Andrea, Moderator]

You should still could them Stacie!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Stacie wrote: "Yeah, I know how that goes! I've managed to knock two off the list I made at the beginning of the year! (At least I've been reading some things that I've owned for a while, but none of them are the one's I planned, LOL!).."

Those definitely still count, Stacie! I've been adding to mine as I've picked others from my shelf and not necessarily ones I picked out at the beginning of the year.

[Elyse, Moderator]

I will be adding any of the Stephen King books I own and read in October to this list! And will apparently move the rest of this list to next year. lol

[Elyse, Moderator]

Currently reading:
Skeleton Crew
Full Dark, No Stars
11.22.63

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished Full Dark, No Stars and loved it!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished Misery and loved it!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished Skeleton Crew. Really liked some of the stories, didn't like others.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Finished The Drawing of the Three and The Shining last week. Drawing of the Three was alright. The Shining was great!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Oy I did finish 11.22.63 in November!

[Andrea, Moderator]

Wow, 44 is awesome!!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Andrea, I've only read the ones that are crossed out! I'm up to 20. lol

[Andrea, Moderator]

Ohh...hahaha That is still awesome though :)

[Elyse, Moderator]

I read *24* books off my shelves, physical or electronic!

[Joy]

Congrats! You made room for some more 😁😉

[Elyse, Moderator]

Joy wrote: "Congrats! You made room for some more 😁😉"

Haha bad Joy!! Don't encourage me! ;) I've already got 4 books preordered by March and one book coming today!