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Do you have Catcher in the Rye in the wrong spot? I don't remember any water in there, but then again it has been a long time. Have you read any of the other books from George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series? If not, be sure to start with the first, A Game of Thrones. They are wonderful...but very long!
I did have it in the wrong spot - oops! It slipped down a row... I meant to have it in the category of authors with the same initials as me. Wait... now that I'm thinking about it... Is it meant to be same first and last initials as ME, or is it meant to be same first and last initials as in they are the same? I think number two makes a lot more sense. I might be completely off track here hahaI'm actually currently reading the third one, and I'm loving it. But I don't think I'll manage to get to number four before January, so I put it on this list :) They are long indeed!
It's intended to be that the author's first and last name start with the same letter, like James Joyce or Bill Bryson.
Also, I love that you've picked the most lovely cover option to show for each book.
Katie wrote: "It's intended to be that the author's first and last name start with the same letter, like James Joyce or Bill Bryson."Haha ok, I am changing that then - for some reason I added an "as me" to the category when I first read it. Thanks!
Katie wrote: "Also, I love that you've picked the most lovely cover option to show for each book."Haha, I was totally the same while looking at the plan! "Oooh, this one is a pretty cover" :D
Zaz wrote: "Katie wrote: "Also, I love that you've picked the most lovely cover option to show for each book."Haha, I was totally the same while looking at the plan! "Oooh, this one is a pretty cover" :D"
Yeah, I have a problem :D I need my covers to match and be pretty!
I like several of the books you have listed. I can highly recommend A Pale View of Hills and The Raven Boys.
I'm looking forward to those - Especially with Ishiguro I felt like it was time for another one of his novel after his Nobel Prize. I've read The Remains of the Day and Never Let me Go and I enjoyed both of those!
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Here we go again!
I'll try to read more or less in order this year, but I will definitely still change around some of the choices for the categories. I've also realized that I need to give myself a choice for most weeks if I wanna stick to the order... I will likely narrow it down the closer I get to the respective week.
Additional Goals:
✇ 600+ Pages
✼ less than 250 Pages
Completed 41/52
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
As in Middle-Earth ;-)
5. A book about or inspired by real events ✓
6. A book originally written in a language other than English ✓
7. A gothic novel ✓
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 ✓
A very short passage is set in Africa and South America...
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) ✓
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire ✓
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure ✓
16. A narrative nonfiction ✓
It's a nonfiction at least...
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
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 ✓
I'm waaaaay stretching this category
24. A book with a map ✓
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view ✓
It's all a matter of the POV
26. A book with a text only cover ✓
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) ✓
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 ✓
brain freeze
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call ✓
- A graphic novel
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 ✓
flying dandelion seeds on the cover
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 ✓
It's not a short story... but it's short!
52. A book published in 2018 ✓