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TBR Jar - 2020
Update: Message 160Added: 8
Read Total thus far: 13 / 32
☑️ Read a book with an animal or plant on the cover. Crown of Feathers
☑️ Read a book the contains the initials of your name (in any order) in the title or author name. Riches to Rags
☑️ Read a book that you own. House of Earth and Blood
☑️ Read a book that you feel you "should" read. Skyward
☑️ Read a book you previously DNFed and still want to finish.Passion on Park Avenue
☑️ Read a book that is from a genre or format you rarely read.Obsidio
☑️ Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.Malice
☑️ Read a book with a title that contains punctuation. The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After
Update to message 49: I've completed 8/40 with The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains and Ask Again, Yes.
Janine wrote: "Update: 22/20 tasksI've decided to keep going beyond my goal on the tasks I didn't originally choose."
Congratulations on reaching your goal!
Kathleen wrote: "I’m going to start this as of May 1st. I'm going to choose my books based on the task list.
Goal: 10
Progress: 3/10
✔ 20. Read a book that you own The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line --..."
Welcome to the challenge! :)
Simbarashe wrote: "hello @ChallengeLeader. I want to join the challenge"Welcome! For how many books can I put you down?
Hi! I'd like to join this challenge. I'm gonna add a random number of books on my Want to Read shelf to a jar and pick one out whenever I need a new book to read. I'm gonna go for 10 books.Tracking books here in my member's corner
finished my last book: Proof40/40 must-read-in-2020 books
36/36 tasks (on 10 April)
Challenge completed!
Update to msg #656/25
6. Prompt: "Middleearthbingo: Valinor"
... is far away in the West, so is Jamaica, where Marlon James was born.
Schwarzer Leopard, roter Wolf
Late to the challenge this year but I still want to participate! Please sign me up for 8 books. They are all stand-alone novels I own :)1/8
1. Play Dead by Harlan Coben
2. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskill
3. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
4. The Last Summer by Ann Brashares
5. Longbourn by Jo Baker
6. April Fools by Richie Tankersley Cusick
7. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
✓ 8. Mirror, Mirror by D.E. Athkins 7/2
message 318 updated.If it's not too much of a hassle, I'd like to switch to all 32 of the tasks (I finished the letting Goodreads pick five randomly from my shelves). If it's allowed then:
TBR Jar Prompts:
19/32
1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
6. Read a book the 20th book on any page of your TBR.
8. Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
12. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.
14. Look at the number of pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder. Read the book that is that same number. (e.g., if you have 20 pages of books in your Want-To-Read folder, read book number 20 from your list). - All the Light We Cannot See
18. Read the first book from your list that "sparks joy" as soon as you think about reading it.
24. Read a book in your favorite genre or format.
26. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
27. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the middle page.
29. Read a book with a title that contains punctuation.
30. Read a book related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme.
31. Read a book that is featured as a group or buddy read and was already on your TBR.
Update to msg #65Progress 8/25
7. Prompt: "Middleearthbingo: Galadriel"
... Claire Lombardo => Caladriel Ombro
Der größte Spaß, den wir je hatten8. Prompt: "Immigrant Song"
...'We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow', so Iceland it is:
Die Teufelsinsel
Update to msg #65Progress 10/25
9. Prompt: "Maggie Stiefvater: Wie Eulen in der Nacht"
Wie Eulen in der Nacht10. Prompt: "Nigel Hinton: Im Herzen des Tals"
Im Herzen des Tals: Roman
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