Claire is Still Curled Up on the Couch

[Claire]

I'm starting out by joining the 2019 TBR Jar Challenge (18) for 12 books:


1. May We Waken One by One
2. The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir 7/19
3. Ohio Triangle
4. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus* Hoopla audiobook
5. Waiting for Unicorns 1/23
6. *Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
7. The Forgotten: Aten's Last Queen
8. Alone in Antarctica: The First Woman To Ski Solo Across The Southern Ice*Hoopla ebook
9. The Secret of Raven Point 2/19
10. The Secret Life of Violet Grant 1/18
11. The Able Seaman's Mate
12. The Dreaming Fire

2/12

[Claire]

My reading goal for 2018 was 60, and that was comfortable, so I think I'll push for 75 this year.

[Claire]

I am going to do the TBR Twins every month:

1. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives Read with Leslie, great discussion!
2. The Secret of Raven Point
3. All That Is Solid Melts into Air
4. More Than This
5. Memory Wall
6. Becoming
7. Vox
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[Claire]

I'm doing the Let's Turn Pages Challenge (34) for 20,000 pages

1 Only Time Will Tell 386
2. The Deal of a Lifetime 65
3. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives 392
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 291
5. The Secret Life of Violet Grant 436
6. Snap 352
7. Waiting for Unicorns 240
8. Everything Under 264
9. The Bear and the Nightingale 323
10. The Secret of Raven Point 304
11. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry 372
12. Traitor Born 309
13. The Mars Room 338
14. Inheriting Edith 299
15. All That Is Solid Melts into Air 464
16. Warlight 304
17. Us Against You 448
18. More Than This 480
19. From a Low and Quiet Sea 192
20. The Abolitionist's Daughter 326
21. Memory Wall 243
22. Becoming 426
23. Things My Son Needs to Know about the World 208
24. Rebel Born 336
25. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism 384
26. Vox 326
27. The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir 367
28. Waiting for the Barbarians 162
29. Linear Shift, Part 1 84
30. Exploded Identity: A Saga of the Halifax Explosion 220

8,951/20,000

[Claire]

Starting the year with the 1st Quarter "Looking Back at the Best" Challenge for 5 books from the Mann Booker Long List for 2018:

1. Warlight 3/31
2. Everything Under 1/31
3. The Mars Room
4. Snap 1/25
5. From a Low and Quiet Sea

Did not finish on time.

[Claire]

Let's get off to a good start with the January Marathon Challenge (133) for 2,500 pages.

1 Only Time Will Tell 386
2. The Deal of a Lifetime 65
3. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives 392
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 291
5. The Secret Life of Violet Grant 436
6. Snap 352
7. Waiting for Unicorns 240
8. Everything Under

2,426/2,500

[Claire]

January Buddy Read for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with several others.

I'm looking forward to this, because I have never done a buddy read before.

[Claire]

I've decided to do the Author's Works yearly challenge (msg 45). I'll be doing 6 books by Fredrik Backman:

1. Us Against You 4/25
2. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry 2/27
3.Britt-Marie Was Here
4. The Deal of a Lifetime 1/3
5. Sebastian and the Troll
6. Things My Son Needs to Know about the World 6/29

[Claire]

I thought I would give the genre bingo (103) a try this year for 10:



Short stories or novella: The Deal of a Lifetime
Young adult: I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Historical fiction: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Magical RealismThe Bear and the Nightingale
Coming of Age Waiting for Unicorns
Literary Fiction The Secret Life of Violet Grant
Dystopian More Than This
Memoir Becoming
Humor and Comedy Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

[Claire]

I forgot to put the Color Challenge (80) here! This is always a fun challenge, and everybody's comments look so pretty! I'll go for 12 again this year!

1. White:
2. Pink
3. Red: ✔
4. Orange:
5. Yellow
6. Green
7. Light Blue: ✔
8. Dark Blue: ✔
9. Purple: ✔
10. Brown:
11. Black: ✔
12. Metallic

13. Read a book with at least 5 colors on the cover.

14. Read a book with a geometric pattern on the cover (rainbows, stripes, polka dots, floral pattern, mosiac, etc...).

[Claire]

Trying to get back on track with my reading, so I'm going to do the HERSTORY/HISTORY July challenge for three books:


3. The Pursuit of Happiness: The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
6 and 7. Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
6. Nonfiction: The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
7. Fiction: Exploded Identity: A Saga of the Halifax Explosion