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Next Month's Reading Plans - 2020


YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE
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YLTO! GROUP READ
✔️🎧The Map of Salt and Stars 20 Jan
EVERYONE HAS READ THIS BUT ME
✔️🎧The Crystal Cave 12 Jan
B4IDIE
✔️🎧The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection3 1 Jan
MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
GET A ROOM
✔️🎧Rendezvous 28 Jan
✔️🎧Happy People Read and Drink Coffee 25 Jan
Venus Envy
🌴Still Life with Woodpecker
PACKING HEAT
✔️🎧The Confessions of Catherine de Medici 22 Jan
SIGH-PHAN
✔️🎧Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune 18 Jan
✔️🎧Anna Dressed in Blood 15 Jan
✔️🎧Invisibility 27 Jan
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🎧Penric's Demon
🎧Firefight
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
🌴The Corset 392 pages
HISSY FIC
✔️🎧Doc 5 Jan
✔️🎧On Chesil Beach 13 Jan
✔️🎧Salt to the Sea 21 Jan
DYING TO READ
✔️🎧Cari Mora 7 Jan
✔️🎧Unnatural Selection 25 Jan
✔️🎧Heart of Barkness 17 Jan
✔️🎧Unnatural Causes 24 Jan
💋✔️🎧French Kiss 21 Jan
🎧Death Warmed Over
✔️🎧Paws vs. Claws 16 Jan

✔️🎧Breaking Creed 2 Jan
✔️🎧Findings 4 Jan

WESTLAKE
What's So Funny?
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧A Dog Called Jack 14 Jan
✔️🌴Cat Tales: Snippets on Life from Our Favorite Felines 7 Jan
✔️🎧Queenie 9 Jan
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✔️🎧 Socks 23 Jan
CLEAN SWEEP
✔️🎧The Last Quarry (view spoiler) 1 Jan
✔️🎧Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales 23 Jan(view spoiler) ["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

I've already got 3 books lined up for January.

eDingus
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🎧 Hear Ye! Hear Ye!.."
I called it! LOL! It's good think you're here to keep us motivated, Almeta.

eDingus
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🎧 Hear Ye! Hear Ye!.."
I called it! LOL! It's good think you're here to keep us motivated, Almeta."
I laughed when I read that spoiler.

eDingus
🌴treeBook
🎧 Hear Ye! Hear Ye!.."
I called it! LOL! It's good think you're here to keep us motivated, Almeta."
I laughed when I read that spoiler."
**grin**
I don"t know.....I should just read all of the LEFTOVERS!

I only have 1 book lined up so far for January - Circling the Sun for my local library book club, but I feel come this weekend there will be many more!

Audiobooks:
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Buddy read (Jan 4), TT
Fool's Errand- buddy read (Jan 18) , TT
Unspeakable Things - 2020 release, TT
The Lake House- TBR, TT
Book/eBook:
The Map of Salt and Stars - Group Read, (Avail library CL), TT
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules - Syndicate, TT
The Rook - Monthly Challenge
Cannery Row - TBR
Swamp Team 3 - just for fun, fits TT! Yeah!
I'm starting something new this year. I want to cross off the oldest books off my TBR to read and TBR to listen shelves. My TBR shelves are books that I own. Some have been hanging around for way too long.


Most likely The Crystal Cave. Start big!

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That's one of my favourite books from my younger days. It was the one that started me on my fascination with the Arthurian legend.

Audiobooks:
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Buddy read (Jan 4), TT
Fool's Errand- buddy read (Jan 18) , TT
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I'm planning on reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January as well. But I didn't make reading list for 2020 cause I usually only read half from the list 😅

Are you going to join us for the buddy read? Everyone is welcome.


Are you going to join ..."
Definitely! So excited to have buddies to read

Chit Chat About Books > Next Month's Reading Plans - 2020
January 1, 2020 to January 31, 2020
I am really attempting to read more books from my home in order to give them away in 2020. I also have a bunch of doorstoppers scheduled to read-at least one a month. Here is my current list for January.
Paper books:
The Luminaries
Rendezvous in Quebec
Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan
Olive Kitteridge
The Hate U Give
Wicked Appetite
Ebooks:
A is for Alibi
Daily Dose of Determination
Audiobooks:
Saving Fish from Drowning
Library books:
The Glovemaker
Tuck Everlasting

January plans: ✓
✓Orphan X review prep
✓The Nowhere Man review prep
Reviews:
Big Lies in a Small Town (pub Jan 14th)
RL book clubs:
✓The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (NN)
✘Caleb's Crossing (CWL)
✘The City (BLL)
January challenge: Year of the Rat
Red cover: Hellbent
January theme: Stars and Wars
✓Dread Nation stars on flag on cover
(also buddy read & TT challenge)
Maybe:
Sparrow Bookish review
The Burning Maze series read, library hold
Everything is Figureoutables library hold, TT challenge
I might skip one (or some) of my real life book club books so that I can catch up with reviews and keep up with group reads and library holds. I've started Caleb's Crossing three times now and fallen asleep all three times. I don't think it's necessarily the books fault, but I don't seem to be in the mood for it right now.
I think I'll prioritize Dread Nation instead since it works for so many areas (buddy read, TT challenge, group themed read) and just read Caleb's Crossing if I have "extra time."

The Three Musketeers (currently reading)
The Complete Poetry and Prose (currently reading, year-long read)
Hopscotch
The Dark Forest
Rama Revealed
Superman: Secret Identity
Spice & Wolf, Vol. 18: Spring Log
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️🎧Black Coffee

YLTO! GROUP READ ~ ✔️🎧

TOPPLER
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✔️❤️The Bonesetter's Daughter GaoLing & LuLing cousins/sisters (12:00) 18 Feb
doctor
✔️❤️Something More MPG* romance (11:30) 18 Feb
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movie
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✔️❤️The Notebook MPG* romance (1:00 o'clock) 20 Feb
Frank Sinatra
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✔️❤️Strange the Dreamer MPG* romance 21 Feb
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GET A ROOM
🌴Still Life with Woodpecker
✔️🎧The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock 8 Feb
✔️🎧The Painted Veil 28 Feb
PACKING HEAT
🎧Healthy Habits Suck: How to Get Off the Couch and Live a Healthy Life… Even If You Don’t Want To 184 pages
✔️🎧Brown Girl Dreaming 9 Feb
✔️🎧Out of My Mind 26 Feb
I AM SOMEBODY
✔️🌴Hope Rides Again 29 Feb
SIGH-PHAN
✔️🎧The Girl in Red 1 Feb
✔️🎧The Memory Police 7 Feb
✔️🎧Penric's Demon 24 Feb
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️🎧The Institute 23 Feb
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✔️🎧How to Navigate Zombie Cave and Defeat Pirate Pete (Slug Pie Story) 11 Feb
HISSY FIC
✔️🎧Greasy Grass: A Story of the Little Bighorn 4 Feb
HICK LIT
DYING TO READ
✔️🎧The Legacy 6 Feb
✔️🎧Just Add Water 27 Feb
🎧Wake Up Dead
✔️🎧The Hot Kid 14 Feb
🎧Knife
✔️🎧Retirement Homes Are Murder 3 Feb

†Norwegian by Night

MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
🎧The House of Silk 294 pages 2011
WESTLAKE
✔️🎧Good Behavior 5 Feb
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🌴The Ninth Configuration 25 Feb
✔️🎧Money for Nothing 10 Feb
CLEAN SWEEP
✔️🌴An Aberrant Mind (view spoiler) 7 Feb["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>


Good luck with your plan, Sarah. I know sometimes I can get all caught up in the challenges and start feeling stressed and that just takes away from the joy of reading. One book at a time : )

February plans:
Out of the Dark (Orphan X #4) (series)
The Tyrant's Tomb (The Trials of Apollo #4) (series)
Reviews:
The Forgotten Home Child
Darling Rose Gold
Into the Fire (Orphan X #5)
Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake #4)
RL book clubs:
✓ (NN)
✓ (CWL)
✘ Beside a Burning Sea?? (BLL)
February challenge: I Scream for Ice Cream
Coffee: Red at the Bone (library)
September 6th is National Coffee Ice-cream Day. Red at the Bone was published in September.
February theme: Murder/kill/death in title
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too! ??
or Death on the Nile ??
February toppler: ??
Maybe:
Sparrow (review)
Thirteen (review)


Lol! I edited it almost right after you posted it too. I was thinking that it looked funny me having it there already when you just posted it, but we just happened to be on at the same time.

GROUP READ
One Word Kill
BBC
The Lost Letters of William Woolf
MONTHLY CHALLEGE
Son of the Shadows
BUDDY READ
The Starless Sea mid to late
ANNUAL CHALLENGE
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor library
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock library
The Blueku
Indexingku
PURCHASED THIS MONTH ONE (OR MORE) YEAR AGO
A Long Long Way The Little Friend Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe The Last Wish

good luck with the plan Sarah but don't beat yourself up about goals and challenges. As you say, life can get in the way. Some of us have more time on our hands than we'd like LOL

............Some of us have more time on our hands than we'd like LOL
Like retirement and no television!☻

The Complete Poetry and Prose (continued)
The Fountainhead
Oryx and Crake
The Phantom of the Opera
Spice & Wolf, Vol. 19: Spring Log II
Preacher, Book 4
Preacher, Book 5
Preacher, Book 6
The Sun Also Rises

Audiobooks:
Children of Virtue and Vengeance - Buddy Read Feb 1st, TT
Daisy Jones & The Six - Buddy Read Feb 8, TT
The Good Hawk - 2020 Release, TT
The Bear and the Serpent - Series, TT
The Kind Worth Killing - Oldest TBR, TT
Book/eBook:
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident - Group Read, TT
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Oldest TBR, TT
Geisha, a Life - Monthly Challenge (library)
Swamp Team 3 - just for fun, TT
And I haven't left room for the toppler! ACK!

... And I haven't left room for the toppler! ACK! "
I just finished working on my February plans and now I realized that I didn't leave room for the toppler either. 😑 I need to free up a week's time somewhere.

... And I haven't left room for the toppler! ACK! "
I just finished working on my February plans and now I realized that I didn't leave room ..."
I might have to slot some of my reads into the toppler, depending on what tasks you've got for us.

I hope one of mine fits too! I haven't looked at it for a while so I don't recall the tasks, though I do remember the theme. :) I have it tucked away in my toppler folder along with April's toppler. I'm just waiting for a June idea to strike me now.

I hope one of mine fits too! I haven't looked at it for a while so I don't recall..."
Kristie, do we know what week the toppler will be yet?

Audiobooks:
The Kind Worth Killing, oldest tbr audio, TT
A Monster Calls, reread, Sindicate, TT
The Mercies, new release, TT
Golden Fool, buddy read, TT
Clockwork Angel, reread to refresh, TT
Book/eBook:
Tess of The D'ubervilles, oldest tbr print, TT
The Murmur of Bees, group themed, TT
Fly by Night, buddy read
The Tell-Tail Heart, TT


🌴treeBook
🎧 Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Library
🦅 In A Land Far Far Away⚡Got Connections
♕Sai King Recommends
🌈 Get a Room
🚪Doorstops
🏆and the Award Goes to...
✂ Short Cut
✔️Have on hand🐾 Reality Check
March 2020
YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️🌴Camille Claudel and Rodin: Fateful Encounter 24 Mar
YLTO! GROUP READ ~ ✔️

YLTO! TWISTED CHALLENGE ~

✔️🎧My Heart Is a Golden Buddha: Buddhist Stories from Korea 11 Mar
✔️🎧The Big Four 3 Mar
✔️🎧The 39 Steps 1 Mar
GET A ROOM
🌴Still Life with Woodpecker
PACKING HEAT
✔️🌴Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature 8 Mar
✔️🎧Healthy Habits Suck: How to Get Off the Couch and Live a Healthy Life… Even If You Don’t Want To 3 Mar
✔️🎧Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington 12 Mar
✔️🌴Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana 10 Mar
SIGH-PHAN
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✔️🎧Kill the Farm Boy 17 Mar
✔️🌴Bog 16 Mar
✔️🎧Firefight 19 Mar
✔️🎧Wildwood Dancing 18 Mar
✔️🎧The Amulet of Samarkand 29 Mar
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️🎧His Hideous Heart 13 Mar
HISSY FIC
✔️🎧Inside Out & Back Again 10 Mar
✔️🎧Trapeze 12 Mar
HICK LIT
✔️🎧⚡Death Without Company 20 Mar
DYING TO READ
✔️🎧The Leopard 6 Mar
✔️🎧Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions 9 Mar
✔️🎧Murder On A Girls' Night Out: A Southern Sisters Mystery 1 Mar
✔️🎧Knife 2 Mar
✔️🎧Alone 4 Mar
✔️🎧Wake Up Dead 5 Mar
✔️🎧August Heat 15 Mar
✔️🎧Double Deuce 22 Mar
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✔️🎧⚡ A Taste for Death 25 Mar
✔️🎧⚡Death In Holy Orders 26 Mar
✔️🎧⚡Death Warmed Over 29 Mar
✔️🎧The Swap 31 Mar
✔️🎧Elephants can Remember 14 Mar

MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
🎧The House of Silk 294 pages 2011
WESTLAKE
✔️🌴⚡Forever and a Death 30 Mar
CLEAN SWEEP
✔️🎧In the Vanishers’ Palace 11 Mar
✔️🎧How the Light Gets In 7 Mar
✔️🎧Pacific Vortex! 15 Mar
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧The Madonnas of Leningrad 14 Mar
✔️🎧Velva Jean Learns to Drive 21 Mar
✔️🎧Galore 22 Mar

I think half my plan for March is going to be to read the review books I didn’t get to read in February. 🤷🏼♀️

Bwahahaha!

MARCH PLAN
GROUP READ
The Murmur of Bees
With Our Blessing card 12
BOOK CLUB
Unraveling Oliver reread card 14
MONTHLY CHALLEGE
TBD
BUDDY READ
The Golden Fool late march card 13
ANNUAL CHALLENGE
Dead Girls card 19
The Glass Woman card 13
PURCHASED THIS MONTH ONE (OR MORE) YEAR AGO
JUST BECAUSE....
The Final Empire The Rapture Our Little Lies
IRISH READATHON
With Our Blessing card 12
The Gathering card 13
Grown Ups card 24
A Ladder to the Sky


🌴treeBook
🎧 Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
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
APRIL 2020
YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️ Swamp Team 3 16 Apr
YLTO! GROUP READ ~

GET A ROOM
🌴Still Life with Woodpecker
PACKING HEAT
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SIGH-PHAN
✔️🎧How to Rid Your Swimming Pool of a Bloodthirsty Mermaid 4 Apr
✔️🎧Strange Practice 14 Apr
✔️⚡🎧Maximillian Fly 25 Apr
✔️⚡🎧Fly by Night 24 Apr
✔️⚡🎧Weave a web to catch a fly: Tangled are the webs we weave 25 Apr
✔️🎧His Majesty's Dragon 9 Apr
✔️🎧The Golem's Eye 18 Apr
✔️🎧The Sisters Grimm 11 Apr
ABOUT BOOKS
✔️🎧Parnassus on Wheels 26 Apr
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
🌴The Corset
🎧🎧Jack of Spades
✔️🎧Odd Thomas 20 Apr
✔️🎧Forever Odd 27 Apr
HISSY FIC
✔️🎧⚡Velva Jean Learns to Fly 4 Apr
✔️🎧The Secrets We Kept 17 Apr
DYING TO READ
✔️🎧Void Moon 3 Apr

✔️🎧Wicked Charms 3 Apr
✔️🍷🎧The House of Silk District 8: Textiles 5 Apr
✔️🍷🎧Just Add Salt District 4: Fishing 4 Apr
✔️🎧Last Words 7 Apr
✔️🎧Cop Town 8 Apr
✔️🎧⚡Death of an Expert Witness 1 Apr
✔️🎧Disappearing Earth 6 Apr
✔️🎧A Nearly Normal Family 2 Apr
✔️🎧 Death at the Chateau Bremont 2 Apr
✔️🎧The Amber Room 12 Apr
✔️🎧Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders 22 Apr
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✔️🎧☯Better Late Than Never 28 Apr
✔️🎧Trent’s Last Case 23 Apr
✔️🎧The Mysterious Affair at Styles 23 Apr
✔️🎧One-Hit Wonder 19 Apr
✔️🎧Cat Striking Back 5 Apr
✔️🎧A Person of Interest 16 Apr
✔️🎧The Housekeeper 26 Apr
✔️🎧A Novel Murder 28 Apr
✔️🎧The Alienist 30 Apr

🌴The Other Wife
🎧†Norwegian by Night
✔️🎧The Mars Room 21 Apr
MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️🎧A Window Opens 13 Apr
✔️🌴Visions of Poe 27 Apr
✔️🎧The Silent Treatment 10 Apr
✔️🎧Germinal 29 Apr
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Audiobooks:
Clockwork Prince - TT, Series
The Companions - TT, Toppler, New Release
Origin - TT, Buddy Read
What the Wind Knows - TT, Themed Read
Son of the Black Sword - TT, oldest TBR
Book/eBook:
The Ice Princess - TT, Buddy Read
Gator Bait - Monthly Challenge
The Confession - TT, Buddy Read
Heartless - TT
Mutant Message Down Under - TT, Oldest TBR

Audiobooks:
Clockwork Prince - TT, Series
The Companions - TT, Toppler, New Release
Origin - TT, Buddy Read
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Knocking out TT is a good thing this early in the year!
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