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Next Month's Reading Plans 2017
Kristie wrote: "Oh boy, June's plans......"Beartown fits Billiard Room (sports) - Brilliant! *running off to add to my toppler list*
Janice wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Oh boy, June's plans......"Beartown fits Billiard Room (sports) - Brilliant! *running off to add to my toppler list*"
Exactly! :D
Here comes July - half the year is over!Audiobooks
A Monster Calls - Group Themed
In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber - Monthly challenge
Son of the Shadows - Survey Challenge
The Sword of Shannara - Buddy Read
Age of Swords - 2017 release
Book/eBook:
The Paying Guests - Buddy Read
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit - Syndicate Book Club
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - Buddy Read
The Wind Through the Keyhole - Survey Says Challenge
Waterfall - Left over Stew and Survey Says Challenge
ongoing - The Woman in White
Just out of curiosity, do you think using audio books are cheating?
Jennifer wrote: "Just out of curiosity, do you think using audio books are cheating?"Absolutely not! Cheating means that you get something without putting the effort in to get it. I listen to every word of the unabridged version of the audiobooks just as I read every word of an unabridged novel (print edition).
Is it cheating to drive 50 miles in a car rather than walking it? You travel the same distance, you just use a different tool to get there. It's the same thing for listening to audiobooks. You get the experience of the entire story, you just use a different sense to enjoy it.
Thanks so much, I had a friend tell me it was and I figured I'd ask someone else. I'm listening to one right now. it helps when I am doing the dishes to forget the pain in my feet and back. Love the concept of them too!!
July 2017GROUP READ
✔Skellig 22 Jul
GROUP CHALLENGE
✔Travels With My Aunt 29 Jul
SAI-KING RECOMMENDS
✔The Fireman 17 Jul
CHAIN LINK FENCE Challenge
✔Rules of Deception 10 Jul
✔A Veiled Deception 8 Jul
✔The Anatomy of Deception 15 Jul
CEREAL KILLER Challenge
The Four Last Things
✔Don't Ever Look Back 5 Jul
✔A Field of Darkness 10 Jul
✔Triptych 20 Jul
✔The Quiet Game 22 Jul
✔†Native Tongue 2 Jul
✔Blood Memory 23 Jul
✔Secondhand Souls 25 Jul
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
GET A ROOM
CALDECOTT AWARD WINNING CONNECTIONS Challenge
✔Fool Moon 6 Jul
✔The Winter People 12 Jul
✔Sick Puppy 11 Jul
ECHO SHADOW ME
✔The Black Dove 7 Jul
✔The Sea Detective 4 Jul
YEARBOOK
✔☭Spill Simmer Falter Wither 13 Jul
✔Diving for Pearls: The Complete Collection 7 Jul
✔All the Missing Girls 25 Jul
✔Iron Kissed 21 Jul
BUY A VOWEL
JUST BECAUSE
The Paying Guests
✔Savage Season 9 Jul
My plans for June were a bust. I think my plans for July will need to be light. The next few months are busy for me.
Jennifer wrote: "Thanks so much, I had a friend tell me it was and I figured I'd ask someone else. I'm listening to one right now. it helps when I am doing the dishes to forget the pain in my feet and back. Love th..."I'm not so sure why people get all bent out of shape about audiobooks. It's a silly thing for people to be so judgemental about. If your friend thinks it's cheating, that's her issue. Nobody is forcing her to read that way (though if she was to try it, she may like it.) For you, listening to audiobooks is distraction from pain. For many with visual impairments, it may the only way they'll enjoy a book. For the most of us, audiobooks are pure enjoyment.
I love audiobooks. I think they count 100%. You are still hearing the same story and using your imagination to fill in blanks, visualize, interpret, etc... I always wonder, if you love to read, but your eyes get bad as you get older is it still thought of as "cheating" to listen when you can no longer see? So, why is it different if your eyes or hands are busy with something else? Same words whether using your eyes or ears. Enjoy your audio time!
Kristie wrote: "My plans for June were a bust. I think my plans for July will need to be light. The next few months are busy for me."My June plans weren't very successful either. I think I need to be more realistic. I've actually removed some from the list I thought I wanted. IT WAS PAINFUL
Rehab, no, no, no!
Oh AND I try to do audio whenever the book I want is available in that format. I do receive some criticism about it not actually being "reading", but I feel the same as Janice does. I also think I get more out of the story, if someone is reading to me. I seem to focus better on their voice than the voice in my own head.
That reminds me, Almeta. Someone irl said the other day, "Janice reads all formats - audiobooks, ebooks, and regular books." I have my friends well trained. They don't even question when I say that I read audiobooks.
Love your car journey analogy Janice. I listen to audiobooks when i am doing things in which i cannot typically read a book in. So washing up and other chores, riding on the bus, walking to the bus top etc. It allows me to fit in a few extra books a year. Recently I have been listening to podcasts though so I've listened to less audiobooks unfortunately.
July: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - series wrap-up & maybe YLTO monthly challenge
Anansi Boys - YLTO group read
The Breakdown - NetGalley & buddy read
The Forever Summer - NetGalley & yearly challenge
Silence Fallen - series orphan & yearly challenge
Everything You Want Me to Be - NetGalley
How to Train Your Dragon - reading with grandson
Matilda - reading with grandson
Might add one of these:
Smells Like Dog - yearly challenge
Beartown - NetGalley
Always - NetGalley
Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House - possible buddy read
A Gentleman in Moscow - group read in another group
Into the Water - library hold
Unplanned:
I hope you do get time to read Beartown, Kristie. I gave that one 5 stars.
My buddy read of The Breakdown looks like it's gong to be in August, so I may move that one up. I've only heard good things about it.
I've not been doing too well with reading plans the last couple of months. In August I hope to get to:✓Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House - YLTO group read / monthly theme & buddy read
Silence Fallen - yearly challenge
✓Everything You Want Me to Be - NetGalley review
✓The Breakdown - NetGalley review & buddy read
Smells Like Dog - yearly challenge
Paper Girls, Vol. 1 - group read in another group
The Witchfinder's Sister? - NetGalley review
✓YLTO monthly challenge
✓YLTO toppler
Hey Kristie, I am planning to read 3 full series (12 books in total) : 
,
and
and may be a couple of more books ... if at all i am able to finish all these :)
Way to go, Monika! I never finish a series in one month. That's really excellent. You have some chunky books there too.I have read A Darker Shade of Magic and plan to finish the Shades of Magic series eventually.
I keep moving my graphic down so that I can find myself!✔
† Dagger Award Nominees
☭ In A Land Far Far Away
ϟ Got Connections
♕Stephen King Recommends
☯Caldecott Award Winning Book
August 2017
GROUP READ
✔Natchez Burning 4 Aug
GROUP CHALLENGE
✔American Gods 15 Aug
NEW AUTHORS TOPPLER
✔How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage? 19 Aug
✔My Man Jeeves 19 Aug
SAI-KING RECOMMENDS
✔Annihilation 29 Aug
CHAIN LINK FENCE Challenge
✔Anatomy of Fear 10 Aug
✔Anatomy of Murder 17 Aug
✔Anatomy of a Murder 23 Aug
Double Feature
CEREAL KILLER Challenge
✔Blindsighted 1 Aug
✔Dissolution 6 Aug
✔The Bone Tree 12 Aug
✔Fractured 30 Aug
The Four Last Things
BOXALL
✔
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (isbn 9781593080112) 24 AugYEARBOOK
✔Grave Visions 28 Aug
GET A ROOM
CALDECOTT AWARD WINNING CONNECTIONS Challenge
✔Finding Nouf 31 Aug
ECHO SHADOW ME
✔My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir 14 Aug
✔The Right Attitude to Rain 23 Aug
✔The Pitcher Shower 26 Aug
BUY A VOWEL
DAGGER
JUST BECAUSE
The Paying Guests
✔From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 20 Aug
My August reading plan:Audiobooks:
Age of Swords - new release (already started, but won't finish it in July
Those Who Wish Me Dead - YLTO themed read
Son of the Shadows - 2017 Survey
Blackout - Series
Blood of Innocents - Series
Book/eBook:
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (currently reading, likely won't finish in July)
The Red Tree - Monthly Challenge
The Wind Through the Keyhole- Survey Says Challenge
Waterfall - Left over Stew & Survey Says
The Woman in White - Buddy Read (Nov 26/16 ongoing for 40 weeks)
And mustn't forget - August Toppler.... tbd
Kristie wrote: "Way to go, Monika! I never finish a series in one month. That's really excellent. You have some chunky books there too.I have read A Darker Shade of Magic and plan to finish the S..."
Totally agree Kristie ... its like i am challenging myself ᕙ(`▿´)ᕗ
Let's see how much i am able to achieve ... hehe!
Both Shades of magic & Twilight series - have biggies :)
I agree that audio, ebooks, and paper books are all valid for reading.Even though I have boxes of unread books at home, I still check out a lot of library books, especially the newer ones. One thing that I do in order to cut down the wait time, is to go to other formats. Frequently the audio or large print books do not have as many people requesting them so I don't have to wait as long.
August 2017 books I hope to read (I have already checked them out from the library!!):
Audio:
Station Eleven
Dark Matter
Books:
Taps: A Novel
The Awakening
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Salt to the Sea
The Alice Network
Bread Alone
A Monster Calls
The Things We Wish Were True
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Where the Light Falls
Little House in the Big Woods
Looks like August is going to be a good reading month for you Jackie. There are some great titles in your list.
I never know what I'm going to read month by month even though I do have plenty in my TBR pile to keep me busy. I'm currently reading the first Harry Potter book, and Paper Towns by John Green so those will be finished in August but other than that maybe a couple of Amelia Atwater Rhode's books and Glass by Ellen Hopkins I really have any books planned to read for the month.
Jennifer wrote: "..... I'm currently reading the first Harry Potter book, and Paper Towns by John Green so those will be finished in August but other than that maybe a couple of Amelia Atwater Rhode's books and Glass by Ellen Hopkins t..."I've had Paper Towns on my TBR since 2012. I'll be interested to know what you think of it. Maybe it is time for me to read it.
I gave Crank five stars, but I don't think I can take any more by continuing the series with Glass. I can't hold my breath for 681 pages!☻
Running a little behind, but this is my plan for August:Book club:
The Buried Giant
Group reads:
√ The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Library:
At the Water's Edge
Finishing off:
√ Doomsday Book
Annual Challenge:
√ Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
I'll probably tag on a couple more ;-)
September's reading plans:Audiobooks
Blood of Innocents (currently reading)
See What I Have Done (themed read/buddy read)
Ready Player One (monthly challenge/buddy read)
Pretty When She Dies
Beautiful Creatures
Book/eBook:
The Black Witch (currently reading)
The Headmaster's Wager (Syndicate book club)
The Wind Through the Keyhole
Waterfall
You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left
I'm really not sure what my reading plans are for September. I think it's going to be mostly based on mood & time. I have a couple that I intend to get to.The Witchfinder's Sister - NetGalley review & YLTO group read
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - YLTO monthly challenge
Bull Mountain - YLTO yearly challenge
Others on my 'maybe, if I feel like it' list:
The Forever Summer
Beartown
Emma in the Night
The Roanoke Girls
Never Let You Go
Silence Fallen
Relic
The Promise
Finished from August:
✓Jaws - YLTO yearly challenge
✓Smells Like Dog - YLTO yearly challenge
I open only planning 1, maybe 2 books for September due to less time for reading. Not decided yet on what it will be.
✔️† Dagger Award Nominees
☭ In A Land Far Far Away
ϟ Got Connections
♕Stephen King Recommends
☯Caldecott Award Winning Book
September 2017
GROUP READ
✔️ The Paris Wife 3 Sep
GROUP CHALLENGE
✔️Bloody Jack 4 Sep
SAI-KING RECOMMENDS
✔️☭♕The Nix 15 Sep
MUST COMPLETE THIS MONTH!
CHAIN LINK FENCE Challenge
✔️The Once and Future King 19 Sep
✔️Double Feature 21 Sep
✔️†The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter 22 Sep
✔️The Play of Death 25 Sep
✔️Switcheroo 26 Sep
✔️Twenty Blue Devils 27 Sep
✔️Island of the Sequined Love Nun 29 Sep
DOORSTOPS
CEREAL KILLER Challenge
The Four Last Things
✔️Dark Fire 13 Sep
GET A ROOM
ECHO SHADOW ME
✔️Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of SINGLE Women 2 Sep
✔️The Coffee Trader 8 Sep
✔️Bandits 7 Sep
✔️Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Diabolical Insects 9 Sep
✔️The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection 9 Sep
✔️One Step Behind 20 Sep
BUY A VOWEL
DAGGER
✔️After the Armistice Ball 11 Sep
YEARBOOK
✔️Life Expectancy 5 Sep
✔️The Book of Speculation 15 Sep
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
BUDDY READS
The Paying Guests
TALK LIKE PIRATE DAY 23 SEP
✔️Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber 23 Sep
BANNED BOOKS WEEK 24-30 SEP
✔️Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread, Chuck Palahniuk 30 Sep
Sarah wrote: "I open only planning 1, maybe 2 books for September due to less time for reading. Not decided yet on what it will be."Yup, I only have 2 planned for September, with a third being something from my monthly challenge list. Otherwise, I just have a list of books that I'd like to read and "should" pick from if I have time, but no actual plan.
Great list, Almeta. I look forward to seeing what you think of The Nix. I hope to read it eventually.
September plan
group read
√ The Paris Wife
Monthly Challenge
√ The Thirteenth Tale
Buddy read
Ready Player One
book club
Before the Fall
√ The Buried Giant
√ At Home: A Short History of Private Life GRI
The Woman in Cabin 10 WR
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Q3
The Great Gatsby
The Secret Garden
Till We Have Faces
annual challenge
The Third Twin
The Dry
√ The Forgotten Garden
Seems doable :-)
There are some great titles listed, Margo.
Thanks guys. I've just added another one - I forgot about the Ready Player One buddy read! There's no way I will get through all of these but I won't be wondering what to read next lol
October 2017GROUP READ
✔️The Vagrant 30 Oct
GROUP CHALLENGE Grocery Wars: Bread vs Butter
✔️The God of Small Things 7 Oct
TOPPLER
✔️The Tin Roof Blowdown 7 Oct
✔️Artifacts 9 Oct
✔️The Dante Club 10 Oct
✔️Red Harvest 8 Oct
✔️Under Jolly Roger Being Account of Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber 11 Oct
✔️The Great Gatsby 13 Oct
✔️I, Robot] 10 Oct
✔️The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax 13 Oct
✔️The Crack in the Lens 8 Oct
✔️The Thief 12 Oct
✔️One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 10 Oct
SAI-KING RECOMMENDS
Gilded Needles
DOORSTOPS
✔️Doomsday Book 5 Oct
CEREAL KILLER Challenge
Mississippi Blood
✔️Altered Carbon 27 Oct
GET A ROOM
✔️Wicked Gentlemen 9 Oct
BUY A VOWEL (Challenge completed!)
✔️Uglies 14 Oct
ECHO SHADOW ME
✔️A Night in the Lonesome October 12 Oct
✔️Interpreter of Maladies 14 Oct
YEARBOOK
✔️The Broken Teaglass 8 Oct
✔️The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing 21 Oct
✔️The Late Show 9 Oct
✔️Tornado Weather 2 Oct
✔️ The Rat Catchers' Olympics 17 Oct
✔️A Wee Murder in My Shop 25 Oct
✔️News of the World 31 Oct
The Death of Bees
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
DAGGER (These would complete a challenge, I wil not likely do them all this month)
✔️The Lock Artist 23 Oct
✔️Echoes from the Dead 19 Oct
Clubbed to Death
A Cold Touch of Ice
You'd Better Believe It, Bill James
The Crown, Nancy Bilyeau
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
JUST BECAUSE
That list looks almost doable, Almeta!
Janice wrote: "That list looks almost doable, Almeta!"lol! Time to get real, maybe.☻
Yeah, I'm just working on my October plans and I already have 6 on the list. That's not including the Toppler.
Janice wrote: "Yeah, I'm just working on my October plans and I already have 6 on the list. That's not including the Toppler."Sure am hoping that the Toppler includes these!☺
I'm curious about what the toppler is going to be. :)
It took me a while, but I finally plugged in the holes. October 2017 plan...Audiobooks:
Sunshine (currently reading)
Sleeping Beauties (2017 release)
Station Eleven (survey challenge)
The Android's Dream (survey challenge)
Book/eBook:
The Vagrant (group themed read)
Gray Wolf Island (monthly challenge)
A Death in Vienna (leftover stew)
Fire And Ice
Cemetery Dance
That doesn't account for the toppler.
Janice wrote: "It took me a while, but I finally plugged in the holes. October 2017 plan...Audiobooks:
Sunshine (currently reading)
Sleeping Beauties (2017 release)
[book:Station Ele..."
Good list. Let's make many on our list fit the Toppler!☺
I certainly hope to read some of these books for the toppler. It's a win=win situation.
I thought the Group read was The Painted Man?
Jake wrote: "I thought the Group read was The Painted Man?"Both titles = same book.☺
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The Breakdown - NetGalley review and fits the monthly theme
✓Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - continuing my reread of the series
✓First Grave on the Right - yearly challenge
✓The Butterfly Garden - YLTO group read
Toppler hopefuls:
✓The Gunslinger - group read in another group
✓Black-Eyed Susans - yearly challenge
✓The Orphan's Tale - NetGalley review
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty - YLTO monthly challenge (currently reading)
Maybe:
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - group read in another group
Silence Fallen - yearly challenge
Beartown - NetGalley review & fits the toppler