The Overflowing Bookshelf Challenge - January 2019

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Our Overflowing Bookshelf Mini Challenge for January 2019

To-do: Reserve a comment for your tracking list, then fill it with the titles you'd like to read this month from your physical (or digital) TBR. :)

If you'd like a link to the guidelines for this mini challenge, click here.

Go ahead and chatter away - I'll make links to your comments in a few days once everyone has jumped aboard.

Good luck, everyone! :)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Niki's Goals:

1. Bite Club [Read]
2. Doomwyte
3. Eye of the Labyrinth
4. Raised by Wolves
5. Last Breath [CR]

1/5

[Bill]

Bill’s Goals

1. The Changeling - read
2. Artemis - read
3. Daughter of the Empire - read
4. The High Lord - read
5. Stormwarden - read
6. Among Others - read

If all goes to plan I should be done by the 18th. Will be nice to have an easy month. I finished the changeling yesterday and have already started numbers 2 and 3 on my list.

[Anni]

Anni's Goals:

Carried over from last a past Month
1.) The Six-Gun Tarot
2.) Knight's Shadow 📖
3.) Ruin and Rising
4.) The Silent Shield
5.) The Forsaken Throne
6.) Hero at the Fall

Buddy Reads January
7.) Grey Sister

(I will also start Gardens of the Moon, Saint's Blood and Oathbringer, but I don't plan to finish them this month)

Solo Reads
8.) The Woman on the Orient Express
9.) The Paper Magician
10.) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

I again carried over a lot of books from my December Goals, but this time there are only 10 books total (Last month I read 10/16 :)), so I might actually finish my goals this month :)

[Kathrine]

Kathrine's Goals: 8/8

1. Days of Blood & Starlight ✔️
2. The Golden Compass ✔️
3. The Subtle Knife ✔️
4. The Amber Spyglass ✔️
5. 1984 ✔️
6. Fingersmith ✔️
7. Assassin's Apprentice ✔️
8. Glass Sword ✔️

Also read:
1. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
2. Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution
3. The Little Mermaid
4. The Brothers Karamazov

As in December, probably a bit ambitious, but it worked out last month so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Siobhan]

Kathrine wrote: "Kathrine's Goals:

1. Days of Blood & Starlight ✔️
2. The Golden Compass ✔️
3. The Subtle Knife
4. The Amber Spyglass
5. [book:1984|409614..."

Kathrine, are you joining the buddy read for Assassin's Apprentice? :)

[Kathrine]

Siobhan wrote: "Kathrine, are you joining the buddy read for Assassin's Apprentice? :)"

Yes! :D

[Siobhan]

Kathrine wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Kathrine, are you joining the buddy read for Assassin's Apprentice? :)"

Yes! :D"

Yayyy! :D

[Anni]

I so hope you two will like the books as much as I did, the series starts a little slow, but all the feels! ♥

[Siobhan]

Sir Anni wrote: "I so hope you two will like the books as much as I did, the series starts a little slow, but all the feels! ♥"

I hope so to! :D

[Kathrine]

Sir Anni wrote: "I so hope you two will like the books as much as I did, the series starts a little slow, but all the feels! ♥"

Yay :D I've heard so much good about it

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Farseer was a decent read and I enjoyed them. But omg tawny man rocked my world. My advice is enjoy the first trilogy for what it is, but keep reading. :)

[Hailee]

Hailee's Spot

Did very badly in December so hopefully January will be better.

Carry Over from 2018
1. The Order of the Scales

Books that will count towards the team challenge
2. A Cat Called Birmingham
3. In the Arms of Mr. Darcy
4. The Dragon Reborn
5. The Boy Who Wept Blood
6. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
7. The Girl on the Liar's Throne

Finished: 6/7

[Anni]

Hailee wrote: "Hailee's Spot

Did very badly in December so hopefully January will be better.

Carry Over from 2018
The Order of the Scales

Books that will count towards the team challenge
[book:..."

Hey, at least you only carried over one book :D I won't get points for two of my books 😅

[Kathrine]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Farseer was a decent read and I enjoyed them. But omg tawny man rocked my world. My advice is enjoy the first trilogy for what it is, but keep reading. :)"

Noted! I've also heard the last few books of the entire Realm of the Elderlings tug at the heartstrings and I'm intrigued so I guess I'm in for the long haul :D

[Virginie]

Oh yes, prepare your tissues for those last books!
Hobb's strenght is characterization; by the time you reach the last trilogy, you have already read more than 10 books in that universe. You have followed some characters from childhood. To that emotional baggage, add the fact she improved A LOT as an author and you've got books that will probably break your heart. Multiple times.

[Siobhan]

Virginie wrote: "Oh yes, prepare your tissues for those last books!
Hobb's strenght is characterization; by the time you reach the last trilogy, you have already read more than 10 books in that universe. You have f..."

Oooh that's exciting! I can see me buying a lot more books in the near future... :)

[Anni]

Virginie wrote: "Oh yes, prepare your tissues for those last books!
Hobb's strenght is characterization; by the time you reach the last trilogy, you have already read more than 10 books in that universe. You have f..."

I haven't read the last 2 books, but I still agree! :)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I still have all the feels for everything I’ve read... even YEARS later.

[Bill]

Farseer was a bit too gloomy for me even though it was great. I absolutely loved Liveship Traders and am planning on starting Tawny Man this month.

[Hailee]

Sir Anni wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Hailee's Spot

Did very badly in December so hopefully January will be better.

Carry Over from 2018
The Order of the Scales

Books that will count towards the team c..."

Haha I have cheated slightly on that score. I was only about 100 pages into The Dragon Reborn but hadn't touched it in about 6 weeks since epic complicated fantasy was not wgat I wanted to read at the moment and I was starting to forget so I put it back on my bookshelf and I'll restart it from scratch in the next few months, that way I can get points for the whole 650 page book 😉

[Bill]

Hit my target of 5 books for the month. I’ll have at least one more because of a BR. Have a few books out from library and Hoopla to finish for rest of the month.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Nice! With plenty of time to spare. :)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I’m having a book prioritizing conflict, but I at least brought back my 5 for 1 challenge to encourage me to read more from my owned stuff. Nothing motivates like the threat of no new books lol.

[Anni]

Bill wrote: "Hit my target of 5 books for the month. I’ll have at least one more because of a BR. Have a few books out from library and Hoopla to finish for rest of the month."

Congrats Bill, that sounds really good!

[Saar The Book owl]

Saar's goals:

1. Gardens of the Moon - read
2. Ginny Moon - read
3. The Underground Railroad
4. The Road - read
5. How to Stop Time
6. If Cats Disappeared from the World - read

[Hailee]

OK here is the progress I made this month on my list:

Carry Over from 2018
1. The Order of the Scales

Books that will count towards the team challenge
2. A Cat Called Birmingham 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
3. In the Arms of Mr. Darcy 🌟🌟🌟
4. The Dragon Reborn 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
5. The Boy Who Wept Blood 🌟🌟🌟🌟
6. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
7. The Girl on the Liar's Throne

Finished: 6/7

I'm pretty pleased with that since I wasn't really expecting to get to Girl on the Liar's Throne this month. I just added it on the off chance. I did also read Take Me Again 🌟🌟🌟 though so I did read 7 books this month.

[Anni]

Well done Hailee! :)


I finished 8/10 of my planned books, plus The Glass Magician and The Master Magician :) I'm happy with my reading this month!

[Kathrine]

Well done, Hailee and Anni :D

I finished all my planned books, plus read a few more unplanned. January's been my best ever reading month, just this month I've read 25% of my entire 2018 # of pages read. I doubt I'll be able to keep up that pace in the upcoming months D:

[Hailee]

You both did amazing!!

Katherine, I had months like that as well last year and for me I found that the next month was probably just going to be average for me but I just took the good months where they came and enjoyed them 😁

[Anni]

Kathrine wrote: "I finished all my planned books, plus read a few more unplanned. January's been my best ever reading month, just this month I've read 25% of my entire 2018 # of pages..."

Wow, well done! You shouldn't feel like you need to keep up the pace, in the end it will only stress you out...

[Kathrine]

Sir Anni wrote: "Wow, well done! You shouldn't feel like you need to keep up the pace, in the end it will only stress you out... "

Thank you. I know, I can already feel the pressure D: I've decided I won't push myself to read if I don't feel like it, because it'll just suck the enjoyment out of reading...

[Kathrine]

Hailee wrote: "You both did amazing!!

Katherine, I had months like that as well last year and for me I found that the next month was probably just going to be average for me but I just took the good months where..."

Thank you :D Yeah, I already feel like February will be a pretty slow month haha

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I read 3/5 with two more in the currently reading status. I am extremely pleased with myself haha.

I finally finished a massive project at work and got caught up with smaller things, so I’ll have time next week to get a new thread for this up and do some maintenance. Great job on your challenge this month, peeps! :)

[Anni]

Good job, Niki! :)

Till then I can ignore how scary my February TBR will be 😅

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Thank you! And haha that bad?

[Hailee]

Well done Niki!! And since you have two already started it'll boost your February numbers 😁

Anni I know how you feel. Each day I keep thinking of new books to put on my TBR for February 😬