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Next Month's Reading Plans - 2020
Finally came up with a sort of plan. I have a bunch of books that I'd like to read and I'm going to choose from them as I go. The only books I really have planned are my YLTO challenge, theme, and toppler. April Options:
✓The Silent Patient (library)
Sparrow (review)
Great and Precious Things (review)
Reviews:
✓Big Lies in a Small Town
✓The Forgotten Home Child
✓Unfollow Me
The Book of Lost Friends
The New Husband
Little Secrets
April challenge: Let's Get Cozy
✓Lethal Bayou Beauty
April theme: Four Word Title
✓The Forgotten Home Child (theme)
Toppler: The Hunger Games
✓Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
postponed:
The Sun Down Motel (library)
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Before and After (library)
The Giver of Stars (library)
I might just beat out Almeta for posting my May books. It's not even April 12th, and I've got most of the slots filled for May. See what self-isolation can do.
Janice wrote: "I might just beat out Almeta for posting my May books. It's not even April 12th, and I've got most of the slots filled for May. See what self-isolation can do."LOL
Janice wrote: "I might just beat out Almeta for posting my May books. It's not even April 12th, and I've got most of the slots filled for May. See what self-isolation can do."You DID beat me!
BUT I too have my plan. Self-isolation does provide a lot more time for exploration...I want to read everything I see. AND to tackle my challenges en masse!
Unfortunately a closed library is not an accommodating ally.
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Library
⚡Got Connections
🦅 In A Land Far Far Away✂ Short Cut
♕Sai King Recommends
🌈 Get a Room
🚪Doorstops
🏆and the Award Goes to...
🐾 Reality Check
🍷Toppler
Twiste☯
✔️Have on hand
MAY 2020
YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️🎧Thérèse Raquin
11 May YLTO! GROUP READ ~ ✔️🎧The Goblin Emperor 11 May
GET A ROOM
✔️🎧Cash Cow 16 May
✔️🎧A Case of Possession 24 May
🌴Still Life with Woodpecker
✔️🎧Jude The Obscure 13 May
✔️🌴Bare Necessities 21 May
✔️🎧Devil in Winter 28 May
SIGH-PHAN
✔️🎧The Cruel Prince 10 May
✔️🎧The Golden Compass 16 May
✔️🎧The Raven Boys 30 May
✔️
The Magpie Lord 30 MayPACKING HEAT
I AM SOMEBODY
✔️🎧Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 29 May
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
🎧If It Bleeds 🎧🎧The Lingering🌴The Corset
✔️🎧Jack of Spades 1 May
✔️🎧Icebound 22 May
✔️
The Bank 25 MayHISSY-FIC
✔️🎧A Conspiracy of Paper 9 May
The Girl at the Lion d'OrBirdsong✔️🎧 The Devil of Nanking 28 May
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
✔️🎧Broken Ground: A Novel 7 May
DYING TO READ
✔️🎧Murder With Peacocks 23 May
✔️🎧One for the Money 9 May
✔️🎧Two for the Dough 10 May
✔️🎧Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake 15 May
✔️🌴 Nobody Runs Forever 27 May
✔️🎧 Dirty Money 26 May
✔️🎧Burning Midnight 17 May
✔️🎧Extreme Prey 18 May
✔️🎧Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener 14 May
✔️🎧Trent’s Own Case 24 May
✔️🌴Little Girl Lost 25 May
🎧The Devotion of Suspect X
✔️🎧Deep Fried Revenge 14 May
🎧Stillhouse Lake🎧The Fifth to Die✔️
Remote Control 12 May✔️🎧Murder with Collard Greens & Hot Sauce 15 May
✔️🎧The Wife 17 May
✔️🎧The Diva Runs Out of Thyme 2 May
✔️🎧Raven Black 29 May
✔️🌴The Other Wife 19 May
✔️🎧Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore 4 May
✔️🎧The Secret, Book & Scone Society 2 May
✔️🎧Electric Mist W/ Confederate Dead 6 May
✔️🎧Strike Me Down 14 May
✔️🎧The Bloody Tower 12 May
✔️🎧The Dream Thieves 31May
✔️🎧Queen of the Dark Things 19 May
✔️🎧If We Were Villains 20 May
✔️🎧Heat Wave 26 May
🎧🎧The Book of Candlelight
✔️🎧Just Deserts 1 May
✔️🎧Bloodlist 15 May
Shadow of a Broken Man🎧†Norwegian by Night
MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
SHORTCUT
✔️
In the Heart-Shaped Ashtray 18 May✔️🎧Hi, Fly Guy! 23 May
✔️🎧Why I Love Superman 23 May
✔️🎧A Good Fuck Spoiled 23 May
EVERYONE HAS READ THIS BUT ME
The Secret Garden
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧Chances Are... 5 May
✔️🎧Tar Baby 3 May
🎧🎧Train Dreams
✔️🎧The Incendiaries 8 May
✔️🎧The Bookshop of Yesterdays 7 May
✔️🌴Black Dirt 27 May
You beat me in that you posted your books. I just posted that I'd planned most of them. I'm afraid I'll jinx myself, or something.I thought there was something juicy under that spoiler. How disappointing.
Janice wrote: "....I thought there was something juicy under that spoiler. How disappointing.."Just for you!
(view spoiler)
I think I have May sorted except for the monthly challenge. Audiobooks:
Fool's Fate - Buddy Read, May 5, TT, Series Read
Kill the Farm Boy - May Group Theme, TT
Egg & Spoon- TT
Abandon - Oldest TBR, TT
If It Bleeds - 2020 Release
Book/eBook:
In the Barren Ground - TT
The Book of Salt - Oldest TBR, TT
The Body Reader - TT
Interpreter of Maladies - TT
Eon - TT
Janice wrote: "I think I have May sorted except for the monthly challenge. ..."Aggressive, Interesting list.
I'm started to read again, but am sticking with a fluid plan since overplanning doesn't seem to work for me right now. These are the books I hope to read (choose from) next month. I'll organize them a bit later. The Book of Lost Friends
The New Husband
Paris Never Leaves You
Great and Precious Things
Sparrow
The Burning Maze
Invisible Women
Pachinko
The Hobbit
The Chestnut Man
Bird Box
My plans for May:Insomnia
Wolf & Parchment, Vol. 1: New Theory Spice & Wolf
Endymion
Foucault's Pendulum
QB VII
The Sandman: Overture
Kristie wrote: "I'm started to read again, but am sticking with a fluid plan since overplanning doesn't seem to work for me right now. These are the books I hope to read (choose from) next month. I'll organize the..." I’ve put The Book of Lost Friends on my TBR. I really liked Before We Were Yours. Thanks !
Edited and organized. If I continue with my current reading habits I won't get to half of these, but I'm going to try to get back into the swing of things in May. May plans:
The Burning Maze - series
✓The Family Upstairs - library
Trouble in Mudbug - TT
Reviews:
The Book of Lost Friends
Little Secrets
Paris Never Leaves You
Little Creeping Things
Great and Precious Things
Sparrow (maybe)
RL book clubs:
✓NN - The Paris Wife
May challenge: Come What May
✓The Picture of Dorian Gray
May theme: Books set in made up land
The Hobbit (theme)
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🎧 Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
⚡Got Connections
🦅 In A Land Far Far Away✂ Short Cut
♕Sai King Recommends
🌈 Get a Room
🚪Doorstops
🏆and the Award Goes to...
🐾 Reality Check
🍷Toppler
Twiste☯
✔️Have on hand
JUNE 2020
YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️🎧The Prey
2 Jun
GET A ROOM
✔️🎧Far from the Madding Crowd 15 Jun
The Night Garden🌴Venus Envy
🌴Still Life with Woodpecker
🎧🎧Shopgirl
✔️🍷🎧Freckles 22 Jun
✔️🎧How to Be a Grown-up 1 Jun
✔️🎧Something Fresh 4 Jun
SIGH-PHAN
MEL🎧Age of Myth
✔️🎧The King of Crows 30 Jun
✔️🍷🎧The Scorpio Races 26 Jun
✔️🎧Providence 17 Jun
✔️🎧Esteemed Vampire Cat 5 Jun
✔️🍷🎧The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl 23 Jun
✔️🍷🎧A Hundred Words for Hate 24 Jun
✔️🍷🎧The Starless Sea 24 Jun
✔️🎧The Mirror & the Light 18 Jun
PACKING HEAT
✔️🎧The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet 12 Jun
✔️🎧Small Fry: A Memoir 3 Jun
✔️🎧Running with Scissors 10 Jun
✔️🎧The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human 10 Jun
✔️🎧Letter from Birmingham Jail 1 Jun
✔️🎧Irish Wit and Humor 11 Jun
✔️🍷🎧After Zero 22 Jun
✔️
That's What It's All about: Life Lessons from the Hokey Pokey 13 Jun✔️🎧The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump 19 Jun
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️The Night Gardener 16 Jun
✔️
🎧If It Bleeds 4 Jun 🎧🎧The Lingering🌴The Corset
✔️🍷🎧Brother Odd 25 Jun
✔️🍷🎧The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 22 Jun
✔️🎧The Chrysalis 17 Jun
GEEZR LIT
✔️🍷
🎧The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot 25 Jun🎧The Second Biggest NothingHISSY-FIC
The Girl at the Lion d'OrBirdsong✔️🎧The Doll Factory 29 Jun
✔️🎧A Gathering of Old Men 27 Jun
✔️🎧Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West: 6 Jun
✔️🎧Boston Jacky: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Taking Care of Business 5 Jun
✔️🎧The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek 15 Jun
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
🎧🎧The Henna Artist
✔️🎧The Storyteller of Marrakesh 28 Jun
DYING TO READ
✔️🎧Switchblade 1 Jun
✔️🎧The Last Detective 3 Jun
✔️🎧Spider's Web 13 Jun
✔️🎧Devil May Care 29 Jun
✔️🎧The Snack Thief 26 Jun
✔️🎧Open and Shut 19 Jun
✔️🎧The Department of Sensitive Crimes 26 Jun
🎧Gator Bait✔️🍷🎧The Vintage Caper 20 Jun
✔️🎧Flesh and Blood 12 Jun
✔️🎧Lucky Supreme 11 Jun
✔️🎧Who Moved My Goat Cheese? 18 Jun
✔️🎧Just Add Trouble 16 Jun
✔️🍷🎧Just The Pits 25 Jun
✔️🍷🎧Alone 23 Jun
✔️🍷🎧Three to Get Deadly 23 Jun
✔️🎧Christine Falls 9 Jun
✔️🎧Blue Moon 7 Jun
✔️🍷🎧A Danger to Herself and Others 24 Jun
✔️🍷🎧The Family Upstairs 21 Jun
✔️🎧The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories 1 Jun
🎧🎧The Hangman's Secret
🎧Stillhouse Lake🎧The Fifth to Die 🎧The Sixth Wicked Child✔️🎧The Whispered Word 9 Jun
✔️🎧The Book of Candlelight 8 Jun
Shadow of a Broken Man🎧†Norwegian by Night
MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
🌴A Judgement in Stone
EVERYONE HAS READ THIS BUT ME
🎧The Secret Garden
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧Shakespeare Tales of Humour and Wit 1 Jun
✔️🎧The Last True Poets of the Sea 2 Jun
✔️🍷🎧🎧Hot Milk 21 Jun
✔️🎧Jesus' Son 7 Jun
✔️🎧Train Dreams 7 Jun
✔️🎧Get a Life, Chloe Brown 8 Jun
Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death✔️🎧The Shipping News 14 Jun
✔️🎧The Kite Rider 15 Jun
✔️🎧Solo 26 Jun
🎧🎧Song of Solomon
SEEMS ALL I DO NOW IS READ!
June plans:Audiobooks:
The Girl and the Stars - new release, TT
Age of Myth - Series, TT
Wizard's First Rule - Oldest TBR audiobook, TT
Krampus: The Yule Lord - TT
The Library of Legends - TT
Book/eBook:
The President's Lady - TT
The Night Watch - Group Themed, TT
Out of the Silence: After the Crash - Monthly Challenge
The Amateur Marriage - oldest TBR print, TT
Chocoholics Bundle - TT
Toppler: ?? tba
June plans:The Rise of Endymion
Oryx and Crake
Alaska
Wolf & Parchment, Vol. 2: New Theory Spice & Wolf
The Invisibles by Grant Morrison.
Dawn
June Plans:Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Homegoing TT Card 3
The House at the Edge of Night Monthly Read
Brother & Sister Monthly Challenge possibly
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe TT Card 30
Grainne wrote: "June Plans:Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Homegoing TT Card 3
The House at the Edge of Night Monthly Read
[book:Brother & Sis..."
Good to read your plans. You have some pretty weighty reading there!
I'll be shocked if I get through half of these, but the books I'd like to read this month are: ✓What You Wish For
All the Broken People
Before and After
✓Woof
✓The New Husband
✓Little Secrets
The Whisper Man
✓The Sun Down Motel
✓The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
✓Trouble in Mudbug
Eat Move Sleep
✓Death on a Summer Night
✓Little Creeping Things
Sparrow
✓Swamp Sniper (added)
And I still don't have one with day or night in the title for our group's themed read... hmmm...
Edit: Ok, I'm going to try to read Death on a Summer Night for the monthly theme. I also forgot to add Little Creeping Things, which I'm already reading. I am going to keep Sparrow here too even though I most likely won't get to it this month. I just don't want to forget that I need to read it because I started it a while ago and put it aside for other reads. I've added them to the above options.
June plans:✓finish: Where the Crawdads Sing for TT challenge Card 21 and #18 for badge 2 - Done 6 June
✓started: The House at the Edge of Night audiobook for Group read and eye task on TT challenge Card 8 Done 15 June
✓The Eagle of the Ninth - ebook for monthly "bird" challenge Done 8 June
✓The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America - audiobook for buddy read and fox task on TT challenge Card 30 Done 9 June
✓A Murderous Procession - ebook for buddy read and series kill Done 8 June
✓started: One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy for moon task on TT challenge Card 19 Done 14 June
@Almeta there is some heavy reading there. I am going to balance it out with a rom-com and a comedy. @Cherie well done on doing your reading for Badge 2. I hope it helps to reduce your tbr pile! I enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing. It was fascinating!
Cherie wrote: "June plans:finish: Where the Crawdads Sing for TT challenge Card 21 and #18 for badge 2
started: The House at the Edge of Night audiobook for Group read
[book:The..."
Looks like you are going accomplish some purposeful reads.
I aslo enjoyed "Crawdads". Gave it five stars.
MJ wrote: "This month I'm hoping to catch up on a bit of reading, as I've been to tried from work to read much over the last two months. These are a few books I'm hoping to get to;..."Enjoy your books.
I added The Music Shop from your list. Sounds unusual.
Grainne wrote: "@Cherie well done on doing your reading for Badge 2. I hope it helps to reduce your tbr pile! ..."LOL. My TBR # has gone down by 5 books since I looked at the number last month. I cannot say it is from my TT challenge though. I seem to add more books looking at what others post than I work off. I have been trying to do a little clean and eliminate some books that I know I will never read. It is hard to do though, because they all still sound good.
I keep adding to my tbr pile too haha I know exactly what you mean 😉 I think I am going to add The Music Shop too. That looks good.
Grainne wrote: "I keep adding to my tbr pile too haha I know exactly what you mean 😉 I think I am going to add The Music Shop too. That looks good."Oooh! Do I hear a buddy read come on?
Almeta wrote: "Grainne wrote: "I keep adding to my tbr pile too haha I know exactly what you mean 😉 I think I am going to add The Music Shop too. That looks good."Oooh! Do I hear a buddy read come on?"
I thought it, and started to write it, but chickened out.
Both the audiobook and the ebook are currently available from my library. :o)
That does sound like a good group read :) I would love to read it too.
Cherie wrote: "I have The Music Shop on my TBR list too."I've always enjoyed her work. In fact I think it was you who recommended The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry to me Cherie.
A bit late but here is my planned reading for the month. I'm already started on The Night Watch which I'm loving and Britt-Marie Was Here, which I'm not.JUNE PLAN
GROUP READ
The Night Watch
MONTHLY CHALLEGE
The Valley of Amazement card 19
BBC
Britt-Marie Was Here
ANNUAL CHALLENGE
The Sewing Machine card 2
The Oversight card 5
The Silent Companions card 14
The Valley of Amazement card 19
The Love Knot card 26
Lincoln in the Bardo card 3
Saving April card 1
The Confessions of Frannie Langton card 4
PURCHASED THIS MONTH ONE YEAR AGO
A Court of Mist and Fury card 29
Yes, I liked Harold and his story, Margo. I think I read the 2nd book about the lady he was going to see too.
Cherie wrote: "Yes, I liked Harold and his story, Margo. I think I read the 2nd book about the lady he was going to see too."I think I preferred the second book, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
So, this was like "if you write them down, you will finish them".Too funny, but hmm. I finished all of the books in my message 73 June plan along with one other, Riviera Gold. I downloaded a slew of audiobooks from my library, but I am not sure if I will listen to them all. They were available, that is all. I am currently reading a book for my TT challenge and may start another. I seem to be all over the place.
It is my granddaughter's birthday today and we are going to watch Merlin on Netflix. That is what she wants to do, since I do not have a car (it is in the shop) and we cannot go anywhere anyway.
Cherie wrote: "So, this was like "if you write them down, you will finish them".Too funny, but hmm. I finished all of the books in my message 73 June plan along with one other, Riviera Gold. I do..."
"I love it when a plan comes together!"
Enjoy your time with your granddaughter.
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⚡Got Connections
🦅 In A Land Far Far Away✂ Short Cut
♕Sai King Recommends
🌈 Get a Room
🚪Doorstops
🏆and the Award Goes to...
🐾 Reality Check
🍷Toppler
Twiste☯
✔️Have on hand
JULY 2020
YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️🎧They Came to Baghdad (Iraq) 10 Jul
GET A ROOM
🎧🎧Shopgirl
✔️🎧Being Ethel: 14 Jul
✔️🎧Life Class 1 Jul
✔️🎧Breathers: A Zombie's Lament 12 Jul
✔️🎧They Both Die at the End 21 Jul
✔️🎧Summer of '69 24 Jul
SIGH-PHAN
✔️🎧Dandelion Wine 10 Jul
🎧The Night Market
✔️
Burn 14 Jul✔️🎧Matched 11 Jul
✔️🎧Shiver 8 Jul
✔️🎧Linger 9 Jul
✔️🎧The Glass Sentence 3 Jul
✔️🎧Chapel of Ease 20 Jul
✔️🎧This Savage Song 23 Jul
PACKING HEAT
✔️🎧Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism 7 Jul
✔️
Courage 8 Jul✔️🎧Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything 12 Jul
✔️🎧Reveille in Washington, 1860-65 19 Jul
✔️🎧I'm Not Myself These Days 17 Jul
✔️
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works 25 Jul✔️🎧Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays 31 Jul
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
🎧🎧The LingeringGEEZR LIT
🎧The Second Biggest NothingHISSY-FIC
✔️🎧Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy 2 Jul
✔️🎧The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Adventures of Jacky Faber, on her Way to Botany Bay 7 Jul
HICK LIT
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
🎧🎧The Henna Artist
DYING TO READ
🎧Gator Bait✔️🎧The Sittaford Mystery 31 Jul
✔️🎧A Bad Day for Sunshine 22 Jul
✔️🎧Murder Lo Mein 30 Jul
✔️🎧Murder under Cover 21 Jul
✔️🎧Books of a Feather 25 Jul
✔️🎧A Neighbor’s Lie 20 Jul
✔️🎧Felonious Jazz: A Novel 17 Jul
✔️🎧Nêmesis 18 Jul
✔️🎧Death of a Dustman 1 Jul
✔️🎧Caught 3 Jul
✔️🎧Next Door 6 Jul
✔️🎧Impossible Views of the World 8 Jul
✔️🎧No. 17 11 Jul
✔️🎧The Warsaw Protocol 15 Jul
🎧🎧Ben Sees It Through
✔️🎧The Last Striptease 9 Jul
✔️🎧The Bad Kitty Lounge 16 Jul
✔️🎧The Midnight Dog of the Repo Man 9 Jul
✔️🎧The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man 16 Jul
✔️🎧Comfort to the Enemy 15 Jul
✔️
🎧Stillhouse Lake 26 Jul✔️
🎧Killman Creek 27 Jul✔️
🎧Wolfhunter River 28 JulIn The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story✔️🎧Deadbomb Bingo Ray 4 Jul
✔️🎧Due or Die 3 Jul
✔️🎧Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure 18 Jul
🎧The Devotion of Suspect X
🎧The Fifth to Die 29 JulMYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
EVERYONE HAS READ THIS BUT ME
✔️🎧The Underground Railroad 13 Jul
SHORTCUT
✔️🎧Medusa On The Beach 2 Jul
✔️🎧Chato's Kitchen 11 Jul
✔️🎧Chato and the Party Animals 12 Jul
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧The Music Shop 6 Jul
✔️🎧My Name Is Lucy Barton 13 Jul
(view spoiler)
Still June: I have finished two toppler books and reported one to my trivia challenge. I am starting two more toppler books and have one waiting.
Destiny and I have the final two episodes of Merlin left to watch tonight.
I hope you and Destiny enjoyed Merlin as much as I did Cherie!JULY PLAN
GROUP READ
The Architect's Apprentice
The Chocolate Maker's Wife
MONTHLY CHALLEGE
TBD
BUDDY READ
The Dragon Keeper
ANNUAL CHALLENGE
The Oversight card 5
The Silent Companions card 14
The Love Knot card 26
PURCHASED THIS MONTH ONE (OR MORE) YEAR AGO
JUST BECAUSE....
A Court of Mist and Fury
Children of Blood and Bone
JUST BECAUSE........
The Switch
I'm going to have to review my July reads once the toppler is finished.
I finally figured out my July reading plan. I was 2 weeks early for my June plan, and almost last with July.Audiobooks:
Krampus: The Yule Lord (Currently Reading), TT
The Dragon Keeper, Buddy Read, Series
The Beekeeper's Apprentice - TT, Themed Read
Sharks in the Time of Saviors, TT, New Release
The Only Good Indians
The Emperor's Blades, oldest TBR
Book/eBook:
The Girls with No Names, (currently reading), Syndicate
The President's Lady - TT
Chocoholics Bundle - TT
We, the Drowned - Oldest TBR
The Red Garden - TT
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - TT
I did exceptionally well with my goals in June. I'm hoping to have a similar reading month in July.July Plans:
The Burning Maze
The Whisper Man
The Girls with No Names
Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes (finish)
Reviews:
Name Tags and Other Sixth-Grade Disasters
The Book of Lost Names
The Orphan Collector
Paris Never Leaves You
Sparrow
July challenge: What's in a Name?
Book - ??
Connection - ??
July theme: Occupation in the title
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
eDingus🌴treeBook
🎧 Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
⚡Got Connections
🦅 In A Land Far Far Away✂ Short Cut
♕Sai King Recommends
🌈 Get a Room
🚪Doorstops
🏆and the Award Goes to...
🐾 Reality Check
🍷Toppler
Twiste☯
✔️Have on hand
AUGUST 2020
YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️🎧Moo 1 Aug
YLTO! GROUP READ ~ ✔️🎧Old Bones 1 Aug
TOPPLER
Alice - Read a book with a main character or author named Alice.
✔️🍷🎧Still Alice Lisa Genova 15 Aug 292 pages 7:47/4:00
The Mock Turtle - Read a book with a cow or turtle on the cover.
✔️🍷🎧🎧The Turtle of Oman 15 Aug 299 pages 4:12/2:00
The Cheshire Cat - Read a book with a cat on the cover.
✔️🍷🎧The Cheshire Cat's Eye 224 pages 15 Aug 5:35/2:45
The Duck, the Lory, and the Eaglet - Read a book with a bird on the cover.
✔️🍷🎧🎧Murder With Puffins 16 Aug 310 pages 16 Aug
GET A ROOM
🎧🎧Shopgirl
✔️🎧The Pursuit of Lucy Banning 14 Aug
✔️🎧The Bourbon Thief 3 Aug
SIGH-PHAN
✔️🎧Starswarm Jupiter 31 Aug
✔️🎧Echo, Mine 2 Aug
✔️🎧Lover Eternal 19 Aug
✔️🎧The Ten Thousand Doors of January 4 Aug
✔️🎧La Belle Sauvage 7 Aug
✔️🎧No Country for Old Gnomes 14 Aug
✔️🎧The Orphan Army 17 Aug
✔️🎧The Power of Six 24 Aug
✔️🎧Death's Excellent Vacation 29 Aug
🎧The Night Market
🎧🎧A Path Begins
PACKING HEAT
✔️🎧Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling 9 Aug
✔️🎧Nature Inspired Contraptions 1 Aug
✔️🎧Tea Rose 30 Aug
✔️🎧For All the Tea in China 24 Aug
✔️🎧The Third Plate 25 Aug
🎧100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines
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🎧Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 11 AugBUMP IN THE NIGHT
🎧🎧The Lingering✔️🎧By the Pricking of My Thumbs 21 Aug
✔️🎧The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 27 Aug
GEEZR LIT
🎧The Second Biggest Nothing✔️🎧A Man Called Ove 3 Aug
HISSY-FIC
✔️🎧The Library of Legends 22 Aug
✔️🎧The Prisoner of Zenda 19 Aug
✔️🎧American Blonde 7 Aug
✔️🎧The Red Badge of Courage 10 Aug
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AUDIBLE 🎧The Power of One 28 Aug ✔️🎧Atonement 29 Aug
HICK LIT
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
✔️🎧Salvation of a Saint 6 Aug
✔️🎧The Emperor of Shoes 13 Aug
DYING TO READ
✔️🎧The Sacrament 31 Aug
✔️🎧Hid from Our Eyes 30 Aug
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The Golden Gizmo 22 Aug✔️🎧Swimming With Sharks 12 Aug
✔️🎧Three Act Tragedy 13 Aug
✔️🎧Moon Over Soho 17 Aug
✔️🎧The Chestnut Man 18 Aug
✔️🎧Murder on Marble Row 27 Aug
✔️🎧A Pocket Full of Rye 26 Aug
✔️🎧The Accidental Detective 25 Aug
🎧🎧Tearoom for Two
✔️🎧A Trick of the Light 23 Aug
✔️🎧1st to Die 23 Aug
✔️🎧The Games 10 Aug
✔️🎧One Book in the Grave 20 Aug
✔️🎧Eight Perfect Murders 16 Aug
✔️🎧A Duty to the Dead 26 Aug
✔️🎧Dim Sum of All Fears 9 Aug
✔️🎧Turkey Trot Murder 8 Aug
✔️🎧A Wreath for Rivera 8 Aug
✔️🎧Written in Dead Wax 5 Aug
✔️🎧Ben Sees It Through 20 Aug
✔️🎧Elegy 4 April 11 Aug
✔️🎧The Vanishing Season 5 Aug
✔️🎧American Blonde 7 Aug
In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story🎧🎧The Hangman's Secret
✔️🎧The Devotion of Suspect X 4 Aug
🎧The Sixth Wicked Child🎧†Norwegian by Night
🎧Gator BaitMYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
✔️🎧The Black Dahlia 21 Aug
✔️🎧Presumed Innocent 2 Aug
EVERYONE HAS READ THIS BUT ME
✔️🎧The Secret Garden 12 Aug
2020 READING CHALLENGE GROUP
✔️🎧On the Come Up 28 Aug
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧Song of Solomon 6 Aug
Nice list Almeta! I'm feeling a bit sad as I actually had to add a few library books to my december list yesterday. Where has the year gone? I thought I had loads of time to read more books for the challenge 🤔
Margo wrote: "Nice list Almeta! I'm feeling a bit sad as I actually had to add a few library books to my december list yesterday. Where has the year gone? I thought I had loads of time to read more books for the..."Yes the year is rapidly slipping by us. I find I am reading a lot of unplanned material., which has given me some surprisingly very good reads, that I would likely not have chosen. BUT they are not meeting the challenge requirements.
My local library has not re-opened yet, so I have lots of challenge books on the "back burner"!
Fortunately, I can still go through their digital library for some, so I don't lack for reading material.
I need to find digital alternatives to replace the challenge books that I had planned.
August reading plan:Audiobooks:
Cake (monthly challenge)
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (new Release, TT)
Age of Death (Series)
The Emperor's Blades (TBR)
Book/eBook:
Old Bones (Group Themed Read)
The President's Lady (TT)
They Went Left (TT)
The Legacy of the Key (TT)
We, the Drowned (TBR)
Toppler: TBA
That's annoying Almeta. I've had to find alternatives of a couple of planned challenge books that I started that just didn't pull me in but, as I only do audio downloads, the library closure didn't much impact me. What did impact me is that the library got in extra some great titles and I was lured away from my reading plan 😁
Janice wrote: "August reading plan:".What do you think of Sullivan's Legends of First Empire series?.
Added Cake to my TBR. How could I resist? (EVEN IF IT IS A ROMANCE!)
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My reading has slowed down, but I am finally reading again. I had to change my mind set that I have controlled everything I can and now it's out of my hands. It's taking several weeks to get there, but it has helped me calm down and focus a bit.