Clear the Shelves - 2018

[Ketty]

Updated message 417!

19/20 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

[Chalmation]

Updated message #19

37/50

[Line]

Can't believe I only find this challenge now that the year ist 3/4 done.
Anyway, I made a deal with my boyfriend earliere this year, that if I could finish all the books on my bookshelf here at home before the year is over, he'll buy me 10 new for next year.
That, I ofcause couldn't say no to :D

So here we go;

24/24 - FINISHED

✔ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
✔ Wonder Woman: Warbringer
✔ Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation
✔ The Fault in Our Stars
✔ The Maze Runner
✔ Eat, Pray, Love
✔ The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
✔ Album
✔ The Beautiful and Damned
✔ The Wedding Girl
✔ Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
✔ Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
✔ The Neverending Story
✔ The Children's Book
✔ Swimsuit
✔ The Gift
✔ P.S. I Love You
✔ Breakfast at Darcy's
✔ Safe Haven
✔ Digital Fortress
✔ Forrest Gump
✔ One Step Behind
✔ Seven Years in Tibet
✔ The Color Purple

[Megan]

Just completed another physical book - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. What a great ride! This book embodies the best kind of sci-fi - good geeks against bad guys, totally immersive world, and lots of cultural references to make even a girl born in 1981 feel like she was out of touch. Writing is good, but the characters and the world are the selling point! Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars

26/30

[Chalmation]

Updated message #19

38/50

[Beverly]

Updated message #386: 29 of 40 completed.

[Jenn]

Update to message 193:

I've completed 11/20 physical books, 5/5 ebooks, and 2/2 audio books.

Current total: 18/27

[Rachael]

Updated message 109: 21 physical books plus 15 ebooks = 36/40

14 OCTOBER EDIT: now at 37/40

[Chelsea]

Update: Message 64
13/15
The Hazel Wood

[Jannene]

Updated message 157

34/30

[Jenn]

Updated message 13
3/12

[Amy]

Updated post 464--
Dealing in Murder
17/25

[Ketty]

Edited 417! Completed!! 20/20 books!

[Rachael]

Updated message 109: 23+15 = 38/40

[Rachael]

Message 109 updated. 39/40

[Wiltshire Hermit]

ॐ Let's Clear the Shelves - Goal 25 older books read
(Read 5 books owned before 31/12/17 to read one bought after)

Bought pre-2018 & read: 21/25
Bought in 2018 & read: 8/80
[+1 borrowed, 4 ebooks]

[Tara]

I have completed my 14th (3rd Audiobook) of the challenge. I listened to The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It was narrated by Francois Chau and I was deeply affected by this Pulitzer Prize winning fiction. Great book/Great narrator. Not for the fate of heart!

Physical books: 8/12
Ebooks: 3/6
Audiobooks: 3/6

[Karen]

Update to message 327

Completed: 32/60

completed in Sept/Oct: 6
ebook:

dtb:
Murder on Washington Square by Victoria Thompson Finished 9/2/18 ★★★★
Immortal Rider by Larissa Ione Finished 9/12/ 18 ★★★★
Now I Rise by Kiersten White Finished 9/23/18 ★★★ 3/4
Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews Finished 10/01/18 ★★★★
Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews Finished 10/16/18 ★★★★
Broken by Karin Slaughter Finished 10/21/18 ★★★★

[Leah]

Update to Message 82: 50/50

1)Joy of Nature
2)How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, a Guide to Uncovering Anything about Everyone and Everything
3)Writing for Agriculture: A New Approach Using Tested Ideas
4)Journalism Today
5)Environmental Science
6)Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships
7)GLENWOOD SPRINGS SPA IN THE MOUNTAINS
8)The Adventures of the Librarian: Quest For The Spear
9)More Really-So Stories
10)The Story of South Africa
11)Thief With No Shadow
12)Foundation
13)Atlas of Colorado Ghost Towns
14)King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
15)Short Line to Cripple Creek, Colorado Rail Annual No. 16
16)Gemstones of the World
17)A Tale of Two Cities
18)A Catalog of Travelers Rest Arabian Horses: Together with a Partial Account of Arabian Horses in the United States and Their Origin
19)How To Achieve Competence In English: A Quick Reference Handbook
20)The Story of Petroleum
21)National Parks - Explore America
22)Rescuing Wildlife: A Guide to Helping Injured and Orphaned Animals
23)Born to Trot
24)Grasslands And Tundra
25)Basic English Revisited: A Student Handbook
26)Understanding Horse Behavior
27)Sister to the Sioux: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891
28)A Quick History of Lake City Colorado
29)Silent Spring
30)Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague
31)The Magna Charta
32)20000 Leagues Under the Sea
33)General Zoology
34)Mendocino past and present
35)The "World Famous" Lipizzaner Stallions
36)Canada Goose
37)Great Blue Heron
38)American Robin
39)Black-Capped Chickadee
40)Evening Grosbeak
41)American Goldfinch
42)Woodcock in the Southeast: Natural History and Management for Landowners
43)Introduction to Chiropractic: A Natural Method of Health Care
44)This is Beautiful British Columbia
45)The Whole Earth Atlas
46)100 Golden Tours from the Trans-Canada Highway
47)Sequoia & Kings Canyon
48)Nerves and Muscles
49)War and Peace
50)The Mammals

[Chalmation]

Updated message #19

39/50

[Rachael]

Updated message 109.
25 physical books and 15 ebooks finished = 40/40.
Going to keep my goal at forty but I might be able to clear one or two more off my shelves by the end of the year; I'll see

[Geree]

I’ve read 3 e-books and listened to 1 audiobook since I last posted.

e-books

1. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane +
2. Water for Elephants +
3. The Short Drop +
4. Beneath a Scarlet Sky +

audiobooks

5. The Shadow of Your Smile
6. Deja Dead
7. Matterhorn +
8. The Power of One +
9. The Areas of My Expertise +
10. Postmortem
11. The Cat Who Went Bananas +
12. Oath of Office
13. The Hunger Games +
14. Here Comes Trouble +
15. Just Take My Heart
16. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
17. The Pillars of the Earth



Total: 10/17
Audiobooks: 6/13
E-books: 4/4

[Jenn]

Update to message 193:

I've completed 12/20 physical books, 5/5 ebooks, and 2/2 audio books.

Current total: 19/27

[Ranmali]

Completed 10/15

1. The Poisonwood Bible
2. Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. When Breath Becomes Air
5. The Thorn Birds
6. Angela's Ashes
7. The Red Queen
8. The Kingmaker's Daughter
9. Dreams of Joy
10. Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

[Chalmation]

Updated message #19

40/50

[Tara]

I have completed my 15th book (4th Ebook) of the challenge. I very much enjoyed reading The Man of Legends by Kenneth Johnson.

Physical books: 8/12
Ebooks: 4/6
Audio: 3/6

[Amy]

Updated post 464!

[Megan]

Just completed another ebook - Night Road by Kristin Hannah. Overall, a good read. In signature Hannah fashion, the characters were complex and sympathetic and tugged at the heart strings. My biggest issue was the beginning was a bit slow and the ending was rushed. It was too perfect. Worth reading. 4 stars

27/30

[Charity]

Updated message 9.

61/50

[Beverly]

Updated message #386: 32 out of 40

[Christa]

Updated comment 147 - completed my 72 books from last year!

Details:
48/48 eBooks
24/24 physical books
72/72 TOTAL

✓ 1. Conduct Unbecoming
✓ 2. The Beast That Never Was
✓ 3. Devoted: A Suspense Novel
✓ 4. Howl At The Mistletoe
✓ 5. Sleeping Beauty, Indeed & Other Lesbian Fairytales
✓ 6. Critical Hit
✓ 7. A Court of Wings and Ruin
✓ 8. The Bone Witch
✓ 9. Once Upon A Kiss: 17 Romantic Faerie Tales
✓ 10. Playing to Win
✓ 11. Off Campus
✓ 12. An Unseen Attraction
✓ 13. Iron & Velvet
✓ 14. Shadows & Dreams
✓ 15. Gena/Finn
✓ 16. Rise of the Dragons
✓ 17. In the Wreckage
✓ 18. COPS
✓ 19. Ever Shade
✓ 20. Where He Ends and I Begin
✓ 21. Married for the Millions
✓ 22. Patience
✓ 23. Liberator
✓ 24. Found At the Library
✓ 25. Leo Loves Aries
✓ 26. Ravenwood
✓ 27. Taming Teddy
✓ 28. Counterpoint
✓ 29. Crescendo
✓ 30. All I Want
✓ 31. Faking It
✓ 32. The Best Man
✓ 33. Transformed: San Francisco
✓ 34. City Boy
✓ 35. Cutie and the Beast
✓ 36. The Druid Next Door
✓ 37. Bad Boy's Bard
✓ 38. Wanted, A Gentleman
✓ 39. No Quarter
✓ 40. The Detective's Pleasure
✓ 41. The Rules of Love
✓ 42. Blood & Thunder
✓ 43. Fire and Water
✓ 44. From Out in the Cold
✓ 45. It's All Geek to Me
✓ 46. A Family for Christmas
✓ 47. Don't Feed the Trolls
✓ 48. Freckles

✓ 1. Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter: The Official Guide
✓ 2. Dates: Volume 2
✓ 3. The Chronicles of Exandria: The Tale of Vox Machina Volume 1 Art Book
✓ 4. What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs
✓ 5. The Upside of Unrequited
✓ 6. Goldenhand
✓ 7. Shades of A
✓ 8. Shades After
✓ 9. Critical Role: Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting
✓ 10. Christabel
✓ 11. Queens of Geek
✓ 12. A Little Book of Big Christmas Tales
✓ 13. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
✓ 14. Ginny Moon
✓ 15. Always and Forever, Lara Jean
✓ 16. The Dark Prophecy
✓ 17. Ramona Blue
✓ 18. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
✓ 19. Our Dark Duet
✓ 20. Fan Art
✓ 21. Nevernight
✓ 22. If I Was Your Girl
✓ 23. Peter Darling
✓ 24. The 12 Dares of Christa

Completed 10/25/18

[Jennifer]

update to message 31

physical books:8/10
1. Don't Breathe a Word***
2. The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste the Same***
3. One Good Dog****
4. For My Daughters****
5. Unraveled: The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother***
6.The Weight of Silence****
7. Barefoot***
8. Perfect Match****

Ebooks: 0/5

[Chalmation]

Updated message #19

41/50

[Amy]

Updated message 464

[Wiltshire Hermit]

ॐ Let's Clear the Shelves - Goal 25 older books read
(Read 5 books owned before 31/12/17 to read one bought after)

Bought pre-2018 & read: 23/25
Bought in 2018 & read: 8/81
[+1 borrowed, 8 ebooks]

[Christina]

Updated #128

4/10
1/5

[Tara]

I have completed my 16th (9th Physical) book of the challenge. I read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

Physical books: 9/12
Ebooks: 4/6
Audio: 3/6

[Megan]

Just finished another ebook - The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle. Good, quick read! The author's writing was good, quickly conveyed her message, and without unnecessary repetition. I liked her characters. However, the main character was a bit too perfect, and the ending was rushed. I received this book as a free giveaway in exchange for my honest review. Worth reading! 3.5 stars

28/30

[Beverly]

Updated message #386: 35 out of 40

[Amy]

Updated post 464

[Megan]

Just completed another ebook - The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol. I really enjoyed this nordic noir! Maybe having two female authors gave this a slightly different voice from the other nordic noir writers, and I really liked it. I appreciated the references to immigration problems, graft, and exploitation of women and children. Having those issues highlighted can make a difference in the international conversation. Definitely worth reading! 4 stars

29/30

[Amy]

Updated post 464-- Dolly Is Dead

[Wiltshire Hermit]

ॐ Let's Clear the Shelves - Goal 25 older books read
(Read 5 books owned before 31/12/17 to read one bought after)

Bought pre-2018 & read: 23/25

[Chalmation]

Updated message #19

42/50

[Wiltshire Hermit]

ॐ Let's Clear the Shelves - Goal 25 older books read
(Read 5 books owned before 31/12/17 to read one bought after)

Bought pre-2018 & read: 24/25

[Louise]

Challenge complete! Message #105

15/15 books

[Amy]

Updated post 464-- Death of a Stranger.

I like this challenge--the last 2 books I read I didn't even recognize and couldn't remember shelving. I may have a book addiction!

[Beverly]

Updated message #386: 38 out of 40

[Beverly]

Updated message #387: 39/40

[Amy]

Updated post 464-- Roses are Red 23/25