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First time Participant: Stephanie’s plans for 2018
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Welcome to our challenge! Wishing you lots of luck and happy reading!
Good luck to you and have fun! I haven't decided whether or not to read in order. I didn't this year, but might try to next year (at least for the first week or two)!
Tammy wrote: "Good luck to you and have fun! I haven't decided whether or not to read in order. I didn't this year, but might try to next year (at least for the first week or two)!"Thank you! I am looking forward to it. :)
I'm obsessed with your list. Mainly because I've read a good amount of them, and love them ALL! We have very similar tastes. You're in for a great year!
Megan wrote: "I'm obsessed with your list. Mainly because I've read a good amount of them, and love them ALL! We have very similar tastes. You're in for a great year!"Thank you! I am looking forward to my list, though I admit I want to pick up quite a few of my titles on my list NOW. =)
Stephanie wrote: "I am looking forward to participating and cheering everyone on next year. Here are my plans thus far, but I reserved the right to substitute titles in at any point. =) Also, I am not certain if I w..."You've got a lot of really good books in here!! How will you ever decide?! lol
Good luck on the Challenge!
Great list. You will have a good year ahead. Safe Haven was a great book. Enjoy.
MJ wrote: "Welcome and good luck!"Thank you!
Ashley wrote: "Great list. You will have a good year ahead. Safe Haven was a great book. Enjoy."Thank you!
Looks like we have a few books in common! Devoted is a great book. I read it last year for a prompt requiring a book about religion, which I was dreading, but I ended up loving the book! I can also highly recommend Big Little Lies
January's Progress Report:Books Read in January: 6
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Let's Chat January!I am pretty happy with accomplishing six books this month--the new year has gotten off to a hectic start. Audiobooks are the best thing ever for crunch on time, or needing to get to bed early to get up early each day. :)
I have started my 7 and 8 books for the year: Turtles All the Way Down (audiobook--great so far, highly recommend it as an audiobook) and I am going to be picking up The Hate U Give.
How has your first month gone?! What books did you love so I can add them to my never ending TBR?
Stephanie, I can check off Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI for our group challenge?
Yes! I finished it up :) Almost done with Turtles All the Way Down
February's Progress ReportBooks Read in February: 6
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Let's Chat February!How can the second month already be over? Life is starting to get super busy now that it is March so my reading time will be decreasing.
This month I finished 6 books--not too shabby. I have two more I started in February, but I did not get a chance to finish them up until after March began.
How did your month go? What are you looking forward to in March? It is hard to believe after this next one, one quarter of the year will be finished!
March's Progress ReportBooks finished: 3
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Also, I am not certain if I will proceed in order, or hop around--it will probably depend on what's happening each week in my work/personal life.And I am obviously jumping around to what is clicking at the given moment.14/52 Completed
1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title(finished 2-10-18)2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link)
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)(Finished 2-20-18)5. A book about or inspired by real eventsFinished 3/2/186. A book originally written in a language other than English
7. A gothic novel
8. An "own voices" book*Finished 3/5/189. 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)(Finished 1-14-18)14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire(Finished 2/20/18)15. A book with an unique format/writing structure(finished 1-1-18)16. A narrative nonfictionFinished 1-25-1817. 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
. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)Finished 3/13/1828. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water(Finished 2/25/18)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)--I decided to do books based on your Hogwarts House--I go between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw
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(Finished 1/29/17)37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2)
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(Finished 2/24/18)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)Finished 1-20-1851. An award-winning short story or short story collection
52. A book published in 2018Finished 1-17-18
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Happy Reading!
Stephanie