End-of-Year Cramathon

[Juli, Moderator]

Hi Y'all,

Join me in this month-long readathon! This is motivated by my (internal) need to check off all these books as read before 2019 ceases to exist! What do you have left to read? What would you like to accomplish by 12/31? I am hoping this readathon will motivate me and hold me accountable for this last month of this century! Gah, that's weird to say.

Cheers,
Juli

[Juli, Moderator]

Here is my list of books I'd like to finish by 12/31.

1) In the Tall Grass finished
2) Otherworld finished
3) Watchmen finished
4) Husband Material (ARC) finished
5) Planet of the Apes finished
6) Red Dragon finished
7) American Gods, Vol 1 finished
8) Dream Country, Sandman Series Vol 3 finished
9) Sense and Sensibility finished
10) Rise of Magicks (ARC that I am super late on group read) finished
11) Daisy Jones & The Six Sharp Objects finished
12) Siddharta (in German) finished
13) House of Leaves read about 100 pages, taking it into 2020
14) Braiding Sweetgrass The Sweetheart's Knitting Club finished

Edit: Decided to make some changes to my list. :)

2nd edit: I also read the first five books in a German urban fantasy series: Aurafeuer, Essenzstab, Wechselbalg, Feuerblut, and Silberregen.

[Shelby]

Yes! I was waiting for this one!

I have four books I want to close out the decade with.

Finish reading:


Read:

And to round it off to an even 70 books done this year, I picked up from the library yesterday.

[Stacie]

I'm in! If I can get 4 physical books from my tbr read, I'll hit my goal for this year's Read Your Shelves challenge. The only problem is nothing in that pile is a quick read...

[Shelby]

Made it to 29% in Nothing Lasts Forever tonight.

[Elyse, Moderator]

The only books I can read for the rest of the year are below.

Series Started in 2019 and Want to Finish:
The Falconer Trilogy (e-book)
Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy (paperback)
Chronicles of The One Trilogy (audio)
The Lord of the Rings Quartet (audio)

Currently reading and almost done listening to .

I also need to read for Q author to complete ABC Author Challenge.

If I read all of the above, I still need 6 more books for Read Your Shelves/Mount TBR Challenge to get to 100. So I'm perusing my graphic novel stack to see what I bought last year. EDIT: I have read all of the graphic novels I had purchased prior to 2019. Ahhh!! I guess I'll have to listen to some of my shorter Audible books to round out my challenge! lol. Choosing these for now:

I'm also at this moment 10 books away from my Goodreads Challenge goal of 300 books. So if I complete all my other challenges, I will be just over 300. 🤞🤞
Oh and I also want to read this week for the Seasons of Reading Christmas Spirit Readathon!

Ok I feel overwhelmed now...lol!

Read
Merry Christmas, Steve
Listened

[Juli, Moderator]

Katie wrote: "Happy to join in!

I need to finish A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan, and read:

The Familiars by Stacey Halls (both of these belong to my sister and need to go back to her),

The Prior..."

Go, Katie!

[Juli, Moderator]

Shelby wrote: "Yes! I was waiting for this one!

I have four books I want to close out the decade with.

Finish reading: [bookcover:Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Pro..."

4 books .... you got this!

[Juli, Moderator]

Stacie wrote: "I'm in! If I can get 4 physical books from my tbr read, I'll hit my goal for this year's Read Your Shelves challenge. The only problem is nothing in that pile is a quick read..."

I love that you are finishing that challenge!

[Juli, Moderator]

Elyse wrote: "The only books I can read for the rest of the year are below.

Series Started in 2019 and Want to Finish:
The Falconer Trilogy [bookcover:The Fallen Kingdo..."

Oh man, Elyse! You rock! You will reach your goal!

[Cobwebs-Iced-Across-SpaceTime]

I'm in! Think I'll just post as I go. I'm hitting the Christmas fiction and Christmas children's books pretty diligently.:)

Dec. 5: Read The Wedding Dress Christmas
Alaskan Christmas Cold Case

Dec. 6: Read Ascending Power-NG ARC, Diverse December
The Corruption of Alston House--NG ARC, Dec. 10 release
Deck the Bloody Halls

Dec. 7: A Christmas Haunting: Clark Mansion
A Christmas Haunting: The Truth Revealed
Christmas Party

Dec. 8: The Twelve Dice of Christmas
The Christmas Eve Haunting
The Christmas Haunting of Robinson Mansion
Girl in the Woods

Dec. 9: The Kill Club --for Blog Tour Dec. 16

Dec. 10: The Time That's Given
Snowball--Super Scary NH Blizzard! Gave me a NEW phobia!

Dec. 11: reading The Blaze
Avery Meets Chevy-read
Flynn's Christmas: A Sherlock and Lucy Short Story-read
The Haunting of Camp Lakewood-read
Reading Fire Sign

Dec. 12: Read The Blaze
Read The Christmas Walk Caper: A Mac and Millie Mystery-read
Fire Sign

Dec. 13: ReadSmoke and Dagger: A SPECTRA Files Prequel
The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas--to p. 33
I Remember You--to p. 63

Dec. 14: Read Breach of Faith by Daniel Gibbs. ARC. SF.
Reading I Remember You and
Haunted Christmas

Dec. 15: Finished I Remember You

Dec. 16: Finished Last Rituals

Dec. 17: Read Ain't No Messiah
Finished Haunted Christmas

Dec. 17-18: Read and finished Malice

Dec. 18-19: Read and finished Good Girls Lie

Dec. 20:

Dec. 21:
Read

Mr. Hoopeyloops Saves ChristmaMy Soul to Takes.
George and Linda Take a Spin by Stephany Brandt. Novella
But Mom Said No!: Early Reader -- Learning Boundaries with Humor Kids BooThe Housekeeperk.
The Visiting Fairy.
Oliver’s Loose Tooth: 10 Ways For Tooth Raze.. All above for ShortaThon.
Finished My Soul to Take.
Reading:
Christmas in the Multiverse: A Multiverse Investigations Unit Story
The Housekeeper
The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad

Dec. 22:
Finished
The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas
The Housekeeper
The Diary of Mr. Poynter: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Cat Noel
Morning has Broken: A Short Read. Shortathon.
The Astronaut: A Short Read. Shortathon.

Dec. 23: My Soul to Take

Dec. 24:
Assunta
A Good Pair of Eyes (Kindle Single): A Horror Short
Terrier Transgressions
Double Blind The Icelandic Manuscript Murders

Dec. 25: 3 Children's + 2 for Shortathon:
My First Christmas Carols. Edge of Nowhere
The Night Before Christmas.
Semore Seal's Christmas Present.Where the Shadows Lie
A Stranger for Christmas
For He Can Creep
The Polar Bear Killing

Dec. 26: Finished First Cut
Edge of Nowhere

Dec. 28:
Scheherazade
Whitetooth Falls
Don't lose hope Mr. Soap: "Clean and Happy": funny rhyming story to encourage healthy habits (Toddler books
Whitetooth Falls
Reading:
Where the Shadows Lie

Dec. 29: Isadorn the Unicorn and the Sloppy Dragon
Where the Shadows Lie

Dec. 30: New Caviar
Wake of the Sadico
KULT
Reading:
Girls with Sharp Sticks
The Drowning

Dec. 31: The Drowning .
MA. Exceptional Mystery! Highly recommended!!

[Juli, Moderator]

Finished In the Tall Grass as well as Throttle, which I spontaneously picked up from my library. Enjoyed the first but not so much the second. The second just wasn't my cup of tea.

[Juli, Moderator]

Nyarlathotep Twelfth Month wrote: "I'm in! Think I'll just post as I go. I'm hitting the Christmas fiction and Christmas children's books pretty diligently.:)"

I love seasonal reads and Christmas ones are just always so festive and cozy to me.

[Stacie]

Having a hard time settling in to a book :/ I read 35 pages of yesterday, and 15 pages of , 20 pages of (which is a library book whose hold came up unexpectedly early and is throwing off my plan to focus on my Read Your Shelves challenge) and listened to an hour of today.

[Sarah]

I have 2 books to read for my ABC challenge plus a bunch of other library books.. and I should be getting my next book club book in the mail too so I have to read that as well this month. It hasn't arrived yet. I'm not sure what it will be. Another mystery maybe.. I also picked up a lot of New books today at the library so I need to read those too. You know, from the shelf of New books. At the moment I need to finish reading Bunny by Mona Awad.

[Sarah]

Oh I finished Safari by Parnell Hall today.

[Carol]

I'm in!

Here are the books I hope to finish:

~Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4) by Wm. Kent Krueger

~Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

~Ice by Anna Kavan

~Paws of Courage: True Tales of Heroic Dogs that Protect and Serve by Nancy Furstinger

~The Maltese Goddess (Lara McClintoch Archeological Mystery, #2)
Hamilton, Lyn

~Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen

~Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher, #18) by Kerry Greenwood

~The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas
Bennett, William J.

~In the manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent
Lucado, Max *

~The Christmas Train
Baldacci, David

~Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher, #19)
Greenwood, Kerry

~Miss Marley: The Untold Story of Jacob Marley’s Sister
Lafaye, Vanessa

~Bucking the Sun (Two Medicine Country, #4) by Ivan Doig

[Elyse, Moderator]

I will finish listening to today, only about 45 minutes left. I'll probably start listening to tomorrow.
I started reading this morning.
About halfway through reading .

[Carol]

Elyse wrote: "I will finish listening to today, only about 45 minutes left. I'll probably start listening to tomorrow.
I started readin..."

Elyse, I love your Tolkien books. They are some of my favorites. Also enjoyed Blood and Bone.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Carol wrote: "Elyse, I love your Tolkien books. They are some of my favorites. Also enjoyed Blood and Bone..."

I've enjoyed the audiobooks! Minus the singing. lol. Rob Inglis does a great Gollum/Smeagol!

[Juli, Moderator]

Carol wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I will finish listening to today, only about 45 minutes left. I'll probably start listening to tomorrow.
I ..."

I enjoyed Blood and Bone so much more than Year One! Elyse, maybe we can start the third book together?

[Juli, Moderator]

Carol wrote: "I'm in!

Here are the books I hope to finish:

~Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4) by Wm. Kent Krueger

~Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

~Ice by Anna Kavan

~Paws of Courage: True Tales of Heroi..."

I love that you read these expansive series compilations!!!!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Juli wrote: "I enjoyed Blood and Bone so much more than Year One! Elyse, maybe we can start the third book together?..."

Yes, that would be great! I have it on audio and I have to listen to Return of the King before Rise of Magicks so I could probably start it next Wednesday. I have 4 days left on my library copy of Of Blood and Bone and I will surely finish it by then.

[Stacie]

I finished up Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World (I had a lot of down-time today.

[Stacie]

Elyse wrote: "I've enjoyed the audiobooks! Minus the singing. lol. Rob Inglis does a great Gollum/S..."


YAAASSSSSS! He's excellent at everything but the singing. Oh Lordy, the singing....

Hahahahaha

[Shelby]

Finished yesterday, which means I can finally focus on Good Omens again. I had to get NLF done asap and my library copy of Good Omens is only good for another 10ish days so I was a little worried because holds list for that one is a mile long.

I've got a ton of writing work this month so I'm only planning to do the remaining three on my tbr so I'm not overdoing it.

[Sarah]

I just finished reading:

You by Caroline Kepnes.

This was a fat book and I read the entire thing today. I did not sleep very good last night though...

[Stacie]

I finished , and got a tiny bit of read.

[Carol]

Elyse wrote: "Carol wrote: "Elyse, I love your Tolkien books. They are some of my favorites. Also enjoyed Blood and Bone..."

I've enjoyed the audiobooks! Minus the singing. lol. Rob Inglis does a great Gollum/S..."

Ack! After I listened to the series a couple of times, I just started fast forwarding through the singing.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "I just finished reading:

You by Caroline Kepnes.

This was a fat book and I read the entire thing today. I did not sleep very good last night though..."

Oh man, You was a messed up book!!! I listened to the audiobook and the narrator NAILED creepy stalker!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Carol wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Carol wrote: "Elyse, I love your Tolkien books. They are some of my favorites. Also enjoyed Blood and Bone..."

I've enjoyed the audiobooks! Minus the singing. lol. Rob Inglis does a ..."

Me too! I just hit the 30-second FF as soon as it starts. lol

[Elyse, Moderator]

I didn't get too much reading done yesterday. A couple hours of and I should be able to get a few more hours in today because I'm doing some work from home and I like to listen to audiobooks while working. Listening right now! I also plan on watching all 6 Lord of the Rings movies before Christmas. I own some of them but just bought all 6 on Blu-Ray in one pack from Amazon (from AmazonSmiles! They donate a book to the We Need Diverse Books campaign for every purchase!). They're coming tomorrow.
I also read about 10% of .
None of .
I need to read today which will probably wait till tonight. lol.

[Sarah]

I just finished:

Bunny by Mona Awad. A few lines were funny but mostly it was twisted and sad..about loneliness. There's magic involved too.

And yes, You was really twisted. The main character, Joe, reminded me of Dexter (the tv show about the serial killer).

[Dawn Michelle]

Carol wrote: "I'm in!

Here are the books I hope to finish:

~Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4) by Wm. Kent Krueger

~Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

~Ice by Anna Kavan

~Paws of Courage: True Tales of Heroi..."

I LOVE The Christmas Train!!! SUCH a fun book!!! I wonder if I have time to reread it??? ;-)

[Dawn Michelle]

Okay, I am in. Maybe this will help me keep on track [though I am not hopeful! LOL]

We are reading A Redbird Christmas for book club [I started it on Friday] and so that will take me through the month. Unless I cave and just listen to the rest of it [as I am not a huge fan] and get it over with. We will see.

Finishing The Vanishing Man today [by audiobook]. I love this series so much and the narrator is just fantastic so it makes it a delight to listen to. FINISHED

Starting a NG book tomorrow as a buddy read There's A Murder Afoot - I have to "read-read" this one so it will take a couple days I am sure [as this dry weather has been playing havoc with my eyes].

I am also starting Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War today. I am really looking forward to this one as it has been on my TBR list for a long time.

On 12/16 I will be starting My Name Is Red, also as a buddy read and for RAtW.

The rest of the list will depend on time [we will be having the girlies TWICE over the holidays and they totally take up all of my time {gloriously} and I find I am way too tired after they go to bed to read - I am in awe of parent's that are MY age that have littles. God love them. WOW]. Here is what is on the list:

1. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary [Waiting on audiobook]

2. Westering Women - a NG book for January

3. Comic Sans Murder - because I just WANT to be done with this series [that has not be a favorite]

4. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

5. Nameless Queen - Another NG book for January [I had made a rule to not have anymore than 6 NG per month as I am reading BIG books next year. I broke my rule with January, in which I have NINE. Sigh.]

***6. Adding The Christmas Train because I LOVE that book!!! ;-)

[Stacie]

Dawn Michelle wrote: "I had made a rule to not have anymore than 6 NG per month as I am reading BIG books next year. I broke my rule with January, in which I have NINE. Sigh..."


Hahahahaha! I can so relate to that...

[Dawn Michelle]

Stacie wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "I had made a rule to not have anymore than 6 NG per month as I am reading BIG books next year. I broke my rule with January, in which I have NINE. Sigh..."


Hahahahaha! I can..."

I was shocked when I started my spreadsheet for next year to see how many I had for January. SO. MANY. BOOKS. LOL

[Stacie]

I just finished the only 'fluff' left on my physical TBR shelves, , so I'm not sure how many more things I'll finish... but if I can just finish one more physical book, I'll have succeeded at my RYS challenge. And, yes, I'm excited about that prospect!

Now I'm off to go celebrate the sister's birthday and then decorate for Christmas :) :)

[Dawn Michelle]

Stacie wrote: "I just finished the only 'fluff' left on my physical TBR shelves, , so I'm not sure how many more things I'll finish... but if I can just finish one more ph..."

You can do it Stacie!!!
Enjoy your fun evening!!

[Sarah]

I just finished another book:

Caper by Parnell Hall.

I read this one from late afternoon until just now. This is the third Stanley Hastings novel I read so far.

[Juli, Moderator]

I finished Husband Material over the weekend. Now I just need to write that review. :)

[Shelby]

Made it to 19% in Good Omens today. Not much reading time, unfortunately.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Dawn Michelle wrote: "1. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary [Waiting on audiobook]..."

What's the difference between that and The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary?

I have 12 NG books publishing in January... Eep! And I have The Nameless Queen too!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Juli wrote: "Carol wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I will finish listening to today, only about 45 minutes left. I'll probably start listening to [bookcover:The Return of the King|727810..."

Juli, I made a thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Sarah]

Elyse, what is an NG book?? Is that the Net Gallery I sometimes hear about on here? Good luck getting those books read!

[Juli, Moderator]

Elyse wrote: "Juli wrote: "Carol wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I will finish listening to today, only about 45 minutes left. I'll probably start listening to [bookcover:The Return of th..."

Awesome! Thanks!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "Elyse, what is an NG book?? Is that the Net Gallery I sometimes hear about on here? Good luck getting those books read!"

Yes, NetGalley. They give Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) of books electronically and you have to review them. The more you review, the higher your percentage is, the more approvals you get! :)

[Sarah]

Thanks for answering my question. 😁 I hope you can read all of the books you will have to read! 📚

I have found ARCs but paper ones in the one free library near my apartment. I guess someone read them and gave them away..

I'm reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern right now. I'm about maybe 1/5 through the book and I'm hoping I can finish it today.

And I'm enjoying those mystery books about Stanley by Parnell Hall so i picked up 4 more if them from the library this morning when I was running errands. I find him a bit funny. He also reminds me a bit of myself.

[Juli, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "Thanks for answering my question. 😁 I hope you can read all of the books you will have to read! 📚

I have found ARCs but paper ones in the one free library near my apartment. I guess someone read t..."

I loved The Night Circus!

[Sarah]

So far I'm loving it too..and I should be able to finish it tonight. I admit I have no idea how it will end. I'm almost 4/5 of the way through the book.

I looked around and I found one or two books that would be suitable for Christmas reads. 🌲 😁