Alia's Adventures in Bookland: A Challenge Thread ( Open to Comments )

[Alia]

I'm making a challenge thread for 2020 and beyond to try and keep myself accountable to my reading goals in the future. I've planned out five challenges so far, three of which will be exclusively for 2020 but if I choose to do more later on in the year I'll add them in.

The first one is obviously going to be my reading challenge for the year to which I will pledge 100 books like I did the year before, however unlike last year 50 of those books will be non-comic books or graphics novels unlike this year's 36.

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1. Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc Finished January 8th 2020, 3 stars
2. Briar's Book Finished January 9th 2020, 4 stars
3. Storm of Locusts Finished January 11th 2020, 4 stars
4. Beautiful Finished January 14th 2020, 5 stars
5. East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North Finished January 16th, 5 stars
6. The Vine Witch Finished January 17th, 4 stars
7. Magic's Price Finished January 26th, 5 stars
8. Peter Pan Finished February 02nd, 5 stars
9. The Harp of Kings Finished February 6th, 2 stars
10. Arrows of the Queen Finished February 7th, 5 stars
11. Child of the Grove Finished February 10th, 4 stars
12. Red, White & Royal Blue Finished February 15th, 5 stars
13. Her Royal Highness Finished February 17th, 4 stars
14. Terrier Finished February 22nd, 2 stars
15. Magic Steps Finished February 23rd, 3 stars
16. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death Finished February 29th, 4 stars
17. Sabriel Finished February 29th, 3 stars
18. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Finished March 1st, 4 stars
19. Street Magic Finished March 1st, 4 stars
20. Wishful Drinking Finished March 1st, 4 stars
21. The Princess Diarist Finished March 1st, 4 stars
22. Shockaholic Finished March 8th, 5 stars
23. Of Ice and Shadows Finished March 12th, 2 stars
24. The Last Wizard Finished March 14th, 2 stars
25. Watch Hollow Finished March 17th, 3 stars
26. Peter Pan in Scarlet Finished March 18th, 3 stars
27. The Devouring Gray Finished March 20th, 3 stars
28. Castle in the Air Finished March 23rd, 4 stars
29. The Binding Finished March 27th, 3 stars
30. White Stag Finished April 2nd, 1 star
31. Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit Finished April 3rd, 3 stars
32. The Winter of the Witch Finished April 5th, 3 stars
33. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Finished April 8th, 4 stars
34. The High King Finished April 11th, 4 stars
35. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail Finished April 11th, 3 stars
36. Tuck Everlasting Finished April 17th, 4 stars
37. Mystic and Rider Finished April 19th, 5 stars
38. Aru Shah and the End of Time Finished April 23rd, 3 stars
39. House of Many Ways Finished April 24th, 4 stars
40. The White Road Finished April 30th, 4 stars
41. The Princess and the Goblin Finished May 2nd, 3 stars
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[Alia]

SciFi and Fantasy Book Challenge: 2020 Read All the Books: Seven Wonders

I will be pledging 10 books

1. Sabriel Finished February 29th, 3 stars
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[Alia]

I will also be doing my own TBR Challenge by trying to read the books that have been in the tbr for the longest amount of time. I only add books to my TBR that I already own so at 119 books I think it's time that I get to reading some of those.

For 2020, I will pledge to read 15 of my oldest listed books:

1. The Eye of the World
2. The Sea Fairies
3. Guardian of Honor
4. Anansi Boys
5. Magic's Price Finished January 26th, 4 stars
6. Mermaid and Other Water Spirit Tales From Around the World
7. Irish Wonders: The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle
8. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
9. The Summer Tree
10. Mystic and Rider Finished April 19th, 5 stars
11. Swordspoint
12. The Once and Future King
13. Unseelie
14. The Warrior's Path
15. The Princess Bride

[Alia]

This will be an on-going personal challenge I'm calling Reading Across Valdemar, where I will be reading all of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books in (mostly) chronological order.

1. The Black Gryphon
2. The White Gryphon
3. The Silver Gryphon
4. Magic's Pawn - Finished April 22, 2019, 4 stars
5. Magic's Promise - Finished June 20, 2019, 3 stars
6. Magic's Price - Finished January 26, 2020, 5 stars
7. Foundation
8. Intrigues
9. Changes
10. Redoubt
11. Bastion
12. Closer to Home
13. Closer to the Heart
14. Closer to the Chest
15. The Hills Have Spies
16. Eye Spy
17. Brightly Burning
18. The Oathbound
19. Oathbreakers
20. Oathblood
21. Exile's Honor
22. Exile's Valor
23. Take a Thief
24. Arrows of the Queen Finished February 07th, 2020, 5 stars
25. Arrow's Flight
26. Arrow's Fall
27. By the Sword
28. Winds of Fate
29. Winds of Change
30. Winds of Fury
31. Storm Warning
32. Storm Rising
33. Storm Breaking
34. Owlflight
35. Owlsight
36. Owlknight

Short Stories:

1. Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar
2. Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar
3. Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar
4. Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar
5. Changing the World
6. Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar
7. Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar
8. No True Way
9. Crucible
10. Tempest
11. Pathways
12. Choices
13. Seasons

Overall Rating for the series:

[Alia]

Even More Mercedes Lackey Series I'd like to read ( turns out I tend to pick up her books in when book shopping, she's got lovely covers what can I say. )

Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters Series:

1. Joust
2. Alta
3. Sanctuary
4. Aerie

Overall Rating for the Series:

Mercedes Lackey's Bardic Voices Series:

1. The Lark and the Wren
2. The Robin & The Kestrel
3. A Cast of Corbies
4. The Eagle & the Nightingales
5. Four & Twenty Blackbirds
6. Fiddler Fair

Overall Rating for the Series:

Mercedes Lackey's and James Mallory's Obsidian Universe Series:

1. The Outstretched Shadow
2. To Light a Candle
3. When Darkness Falls
4. The Phoenix Unchained
5. The Phoenix Endangered
6. The Phoenix Transformed
7. Crown of Vengeance
8. Blade of Empire

Overall Rating for the series:

[Alia]

Another possibly long term reading challenge, I would like to read all of the books in Tamora Pierce's Tortall and Emelan series (mostly) in chronological order, aka Reading Across Tortall and Emelan.

Tortall:

1. Terrier Finished February 22nd 2020, 2 stars
2. Bloodhound
3.Mastiff
4. Alanna: The First Adventure - Read in my teens, 3 stars
5. In the Hand of the Goddess
6. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
7. Lioness Rampant
8. Tempests and Slaughter
9. Wild Magic - Read in my early teens, 5 stars
10. Wolf-Speaker - Finished November 8 2019, 4 stars
11. Emperor Mage - Finished November 10 2019, 4 stars
12. The Realms of the Gods - Finished November 14 2019, 2 stars
13. First Test
14. Page
15. Squire
16. Lady Knight
17. Trickster's Choice
18. Trickster's Queen

Overall Rating:

Emelan:

1. Sandry's Book Finished November 22, 2019, 3 stars
2. Tris's Book Finished November 22, 2019, 3 stars
3. Daja's Book Finished December 13, 2019, 3 stars
4. Briar's Book Finished January 09, 2020, 4 stars
5. Magic Steps Finished February 23rd 2020, 3 stars
6. Street Magic
7. Cold Fire
8. Shatterglass
9. Battle Magic
10. Melting Stones
11. The Will of the Empress

Overall Rating:

[Alia]

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[Alia]

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