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Welcome and have fun making your list :)
Zaz wrote: "Welcome and have fun making your list :)"Thank you Zaz! I am excited to participate in next year's challenge! Thanks for helping get it all together :)
To Kill a Mockingbird and The Book Thief are among my favorites and I really enjoyed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Middlesex. Hope you enjoy them! And Then There Were None, Turtles All the Way Down, and All the Ugly and Wonderful Things are also on my list to read next year. I'm looking forward to see what other people think!
There are so many good books on your list:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, To Kill a Mockingbird. All of them books that I would love to read again for the first time.
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Kite Runner, Middlesex, Henrietta Lacks, The Book Thief, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and 11/22/63 are all high on my list of great books.
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Ohhh how I loved kite runner, and the book their on list of all time favorites..... bossypants is good 11/22/63 is good!! Henrietta Lack!!! 👍🏼I am planning to read all the ugly and wonderful things and stay with me in next years challenge too!!
Emily wrote: "How are you going to wait until 2018 to read Turtles All the Way Down??? I put it on my 2017 list as soon as it was announced!"I don't have a 2017 list, so right now I'm currently working through a bunch of books that I've bought and haven't read yet. That way I can have a fresh start in 2018 and follow my plan (or at least try too!). I do think it will be very hard to wait until next year to read Turtles All the Way Down though...
Charity wrote: "To Kill a Mockingbird and The Book Thief are among my favorites and I really enjoyed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Middlesex. Hope you enjoy them! And Then There ..."
I'm really looking forward to reading To Kill a Mockingbird and The Book Thief. I've heard so much about them and don't know how I haven't found the time to read them yet. I definitely have a lot of classic books that a lot of people have read that I haven't read yet. I'm hoping to find a way to incorporate many of them into my 2018 list so that I can get them read!
Anastasia wrote: "There are so many good books on your list:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, To Kill a Mockingbird. All of them books that I wo..."Oh yay! I am so glad to get positive, happy feedback about a lot of my book choices for 2018!
Welcome and watch out! It's addicting!Some great books on your list! All the Ugly and Wonderful Things was quite a surprise book that I loved this year. It was nowhere on my radar at the beginning of the year. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Book Thief were awesome too!
Joan wrote: "Welcome and watch out! It's addicting!Some great books on your list! All the Ugly and Wonderful Things was quite a surprise book that I loved this year. It was nowhere on my radar..."
I've had The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Book Thief sitting on my bookshelf for a couple years. They fit into the categories so I am definitely going to find the time to read them in 2018!
I decided to create a spreadsheet to showcase all of the books that I'm reading, as well as all of my future reading challenges! Feel free to check it out :)https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
I am getting SO antsy about wanting to start this challenge. I can't wait for the beginning of 2018 to start the reading!
I’m the same! I still have 3 books to finish for this year’s challenge, but listing my options for next year just makes me want to read them now! 🙈
I'm also a newbie, I'm looking forward to planning my list
Five days into January and I have completed my first book of the year! I'm hoping to use the rest of this week to get started into my next book and finish up Why Not Me? that I started at the end of 2017 :)
January UpdateBooks read: 7
I started off 2018 with a bang and flew through 7 books in the 31 days. To say I am pleasantly surprised is an understatement.
From the Prompts:
The Only Life I Could Save ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Small Great Things⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay⭐️⭐️⭐️
Here on Earth⭐️⭐️⭐️
When Breath Becomes Air⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Just-Added Fun Books
Why Not Me?⭐️⭐️⭐️
Truly Madly Guilty⭐️⭐️⭐️
Excellent start to the year! Do you feel like the challenge makes you look forward to reading more? This is my first full year of doing a goodreads challenge, too, and I find that I love having the books planned in advance so I can just pick them up from the library when I'm ready to read. I also love the planning aspect.
Tammy wrote: "Excellent start to the year! Do you feel like the challenge makes you look forward to reading more? This is my first full year of doing a goodreads challenge, too, and I find that I love having the..."It definitely makes me look forward to reading more. It also has helped me prioritize reading in my life instead of just watching netflix/hulu. On my library's page, I made a list of the books that I'll need to check out (in the specific order) to make it easy for me to put them on hold when I see that they are coming up in a week!
I'm a huge planner. I keep lots of spreadsheets. Lots of to-do lists. This has been a huge help in me figuring out how to prioritize new things in my life.
Oh wow. I didn't even know I could make a list on the library's page. I need to look into that. I, too, love my spreadsheet.
February update:Books read -- 7 (!)
A second month in a row where I've read 7 books! It feels so good to accomplish reading such a large number for myself. I'm hoping to continue this pace throughout March. This month I'm going to focus on books that I currently own from this list and have been sitting on my bookshelf for many months (or years). Then April, I'm hoping to shift gears and focus on finishing many of the ARCs that I've received via NetGalley.
From the prompts:
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Lovely Bones⭐️⭐️⭐️
Little Fires Everywhere⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Just Fun- Added Books:
Twist of Faith⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
March Update:This month I read 8 books! Most of the books this month were not a part of the prompts for this challenge, but it feels good to be on track with all of my reading. I also started a blog at the tail end of February that I have been actively using and updating with all of my reading challenges. You can check it out at www.arguablyalexis.wordpress.com
From the Prompts
Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Just for Fun Books
No Place to Die by Jaden Skye
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
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compiling the list of books I plan on reading in 2018.
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15/52 Completed
✔ 1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
✔ 2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
✔ 3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
✔ 4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
✔ 5. A book about or inspired by real events
✔ 6. A book originally written in a language other than English
7. A gothic novel
TBD
✔ 8. An "own voices" book*
✔ 9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
11. A literary fiction
12. A book set in Africa or South America
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
~whichever Mitch Rapp book I am currently on at the moment~
✔ 14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
16. A narrative nonfiction
✔ 17. A book you expect to make you laugh
18. A book with a location in the title
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
21. A book written in first person perspective
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
23. A medical or legal thriller
24. A book with a map
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
26. A book with a text only cover
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
or
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
30. A short book
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
32. An alternate history book
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link)
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)
35. A book featuring a murder
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
✔ 38. A science book or a science fiction book
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
✔ 41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
44. A ghost story
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
✔ 46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists
50. ✔ A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
52. ✔ A book published in 2018