Sonnie's 2020 Reading Challenge

[Sonnie]

I'm not *technically* new here, but I don't think I've ever posted. I've just been a lurker lol. So, hi everyone!

2020 Reading Goal: 50 Books
Also just want to continue trying to finish series I've started in the past (I have a LONG spreadsheet that I use to keep up with this lol) and I'm putting myself on a book buying ban (minus pre-orders) until I've read 10 books that I already own... we'll see how it goes lol.

January

February

March

April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December


Series To Finish
Finished: 1/ 58
Shadowhunters Shorts:
The Last Hours (Shadowhunters):
The Eldest Curses (Shadowhunters)
The Bronze Horseman
Anita Blake
The Dresden Files:
The Wolves of Mercy Falls:
The Raven Cycle
As The World Dies
Royally
The Bodyguards (Royally Spinoff- Not Out Yet)*
Throne of Glass
The Arcana Chronicles (up to date)*
Outlander
Mercy Thompson
The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)
Half-Moon Hollow
Naked Werewolf
Maybe (C. Hoover)
Simon Snow
The Royals
Fever (newer books)
A Court of Thorns & Roses (last novella)
After
Wicked
Mythos Academy
Fall Away
Wait For You
Finding Fate
Never Never (parts 2 &3)
Shatter Me (newer books)
Sweet
Pushing the Limits
Marked Men
Death Collector
The Ivy Chronicles
The Heroes of Olympus
Goddess War
Rot & Ruin
Under the Never Sky
Poison Study
Partials
Angelfire
Nevermore
Highlander (KMM)
Across the Universe
The Iron Fey
Mara Dyer
The Shaw Confessions (MD Spinoff)
Evernight
Dublin Murder Squad
Anne of Green Gables
Nightshade
Wicked Lovely
The Field Party
Sinners of Saint
All Saints High
Broken Destiny

[Sonnie]

Finished . (view spoiler)[I'm so worried lol. They all had such a happy ending and I know it can't last! Chaol is my favorite and I can't deal if he dies in the next book. (hide spoiler)]

Next up is I don't know if I'm ready lol. I'm so worried!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Hi Sonnie! We're so happy to have you! Good luck on your challenge! 😁

[Sonnie]

Liliana wrote: "Hi Sonnie! We're so happy to have you! Good luck on your challenge! 😁"

Thank you! <3

[Brittany]

Sonnie!! Its about time you stopped lurking! So good to have you here. For KoA go see the throne of glass readalong, you will get a lot of thoughts as youre reading and I want to hear all yours.

Good luck on the read 10 before buying! I would fail at that, Im hoping to manage 3 before buying this year.....

How many series do you have to catch up on? Any of them the same as myself? I always love a buddy read :)

[Laura ☾]

Good luck with your challenges! And ooooh Kingdom of Ash is one of my all-time favs - if you feel like venting at any point I’m here! Hehe

[Sonnie]

I'll check it out, Britt! These are the series that I haven't finished yet, if we have the same let me know and we'll buddy read:
Shadowhunters Shorts:
The Last Hours (Shadowhunters):
The Eldest Curses (Shadowhunters)
The Bronze Horseman
Anita Blake
The Dresden Files:
The Wolves of Mercy Falls:
The Raven Cycle
As The World Dies
Royally
The Bodyguards (Royally Spinoff)
Throne of Glass
The Arcana Chronicles
Outlander
Mercy Thompson
The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)
Half-Moon Hollow
Naked Werewolf
Maybe (C. Hoover)
Simon Snow
The Royals
Fever (newer books)
A Court of Thorns & Roses (last novella)
After
Wicked
Mythos Academy
Fall Away
Wait For You
Finding Fate
Never Never (parts 2 &3)
Shatter Me (newer books)
Sweet
Pushing the Limits
Marked Men
Death Collector
The Ivy Chronicles
The Heroes of Olympus
Goddess War
Rot & Ruin
Under the Never Sky
Poison Study
Partials
Angelfire
Nevermore
Highlander (KMM)
Across the Universe
The Iron Fey
Mara Dyer
The Shaw Confessions (MD Spinoff)
Evernight
Dublin Murder Squad
Anne of Green Gables
Nightshade
Wicked Lovely
The Field Party
Sinners of Saint
All Saints High

Thank you Laura! I'm so nervous! And a bit intimidated by it's size lol.

[Brittany]

Where are you in Mercy Thompson? I need to catch back up
I also need to read the newer Fever books
Finding Fate book 2 and 3
Marked Men
Poison Study the last 3

Need to start Outlander.... and Mythos Academy and The Heroes of Olympus

[Laura ☾]

Brittany wrote: "Where are you in Mercy Thompson? I need to catch back up
I also need to read the newer Fever books
Finding Fate book 2 and 3
Marked Men
Poison Study the last 3

Need to start Outlander.... and Myth..."

@Brittany I also need to read the last 3 of Poison Study!

And need to finish Outlander (3 books in) and The Heroes of Olympus (1 book in! )

[Brittany]

I'll need a bit before I can start poison study, I own book 5 but not book 4 and this is a series I want to own all of. But maybe later in the year we could all buddy read it?

[Laura ☾]

@Brittany could do!

[Sonnie]

I'm down for buddy reading Poison Study! I need to read the last 3 books in it too. Ya'll just let me know when because I will definitely need to refresh my memory on them.
I've only finished book one of Mercy Thompson lol.
And need to read 2 & 3 as well in Finding Fate.
Also only 1 book into Heroes of Olympus.

Britt if you start the new Fever books let me know. I just bought the first 3 of them for Christmas.

I'm in the process of moving houses right now so all my reading is being put on hold until we get everything settled and it's KILLING me lol.

[HeatherH]

Where are you in the Dresden Files and Rot&Ruin series?

[Sonnie]

Dresden I'm on #10 and I only finished book 1 of Rot & Ruin.

[Anna]

Sonnie wrote: "I'll check it out, Britt! These are the series that I haven't finished yet, if we have the same let me know and we'll buddy read:
Shadowhunters Shorts:
The Last Hours (Shadowhunters):
The Eldest Cu..."


Hi Sonnie :)
I can’t wait until you get to The Bronze Horseman, Outlander, and Mythos Academy. I gotta hear your thoughts. I really need to catch up on Mercy/Alpha Omega, Fever, Poison, and Anne of Green Gables too!
Hmm Maybe I need to start a challenge over here? Lol.

[HeatherH]

Sonnie wrote: "Dresden I'm on #10 and I only finished book 1 of Rot & Ruin."

I plan to reread rot and ruin series next month, if you don't finish before then once I get caught up we can buddy read if you want!

I've only done the first Dresden file so don't foresee catching up on that haha!

[Brittany]

Sonnie wrote: "I'm down for buddy reading Poison Study! I need to read the last 3 books in it too. Ya'll just let me know when because I will definitely need to refresh my memory on them.
I've only finished book ..."

I've read Iced and Burned and I own Feverborn and could read it basically whenever


You'll get through the move and then there will be more time for books :)

[Sonnie]

FINALLY moved in! Sorry I've been MIA, it's been an ordeal over here lol.

Anna you should totally make a challenge page here! I promise, I'm going to be more active too lol!

Heather, IDK but at the rate JB is going on writing the next book in the series we could both probably catch up if we wanted to lol!

Britt, I hope so! I just now finished my first book of the year. We bought a fixer upper so it's taken time, but it's coming along!

Still reading I'm enjoying it, but I'm dragging in it.
But I finished today! I basically died and came back to life it was so good lol. Also thinking i'm going to binge the rest of her books and maybe put Kindom of Ash on hold for a minute, although I hate doing that.

[Brittany]

KoA is such a long book. Although most of it was amazing it was a lot to read so I get it if you need to take a break.

Also glad to hear you are getting all settled in at the new place!

[Sonnie]

Exactly Britt!

Forgot to post that I've also started reading chapter books with River in preparation for Harry Potter lol. Right now we're on . I'm counting these as part of my reading goal too because they're taking away from my reading time lol! Still love hearing "Just one more chapter, Mom! Please!" though!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Yes! Count the chapter books too! You are technically reading them sooo 🤷‍♀️😂

[Sonnie]

Well, we finished the first Junie B. Jones book last night! And I'm definitely counting them lol!

Also decided to juggle a few books so I can still have a break from Kingdom of Ash without completely setting it aside. So now I am reading:
Kindle:
Audible:
Hardback:
River's Book:

[Anna]

I would definitely count those JBJ books, Sonnie! Lol. They add up too. Emmy used to love them.
How are you liking that other Jeaniene Frost series?

[Sonnie]

I am enjoying it! It's about the third time I've tried to read it (the other times I just wasn't in the mood for PNR/UF). It's not quit as good as Night Huntress, but it's still good! And I've heard the next books are even better.

[Brittany]

Makes sense. And absolutely count them. Love that River is already all about that one more chapter

[Sonnie]

Finished listening to . Starting next!

Also, just realized after I finished Angry God that I completed another series... but I just started the above series so that really didn't help any lol.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Nice, Sonnie! Yeah I totally get that about finishing one series only to immediately start another... ooops 🤷‍♀️😂

[Brittany]

Lol the never ending cycle!

[Sonnie]

Finished . Loved that it was set in Ireland! I kept picturing the love interest as young Jeffrey Dean Morgan in P.S. I Love You 😂😍
River and I also finished up another one of her chapter books, so that caught me up on my Reading Goal!

[Brittany]

Yay for loving a book and for reading goal catch up! Im gonna fall behind on mine right away.

[Sonnie]

It won't take you long to get caught back up Britt! You've always been a fast reader!

Started listening to and I am LOVING it! I've always been Pride and Prejudice fan, but I think I'm going to love Emma even more. I keep flashing back to the movie Clueless when reading it 😍

[Laura ☾]

Sonnie wrote: "It won't take you long to get caught back up Britt! You've always been a fast reader!

Started listening to and I am LOVING it! I've always been Pride and Prejudice fan, b..."

I honestly don't think Pride and Prejudice is Austen's best book by far - and it's sad that her other books don't get much attention! Emma is brilliant, and so is Persuasion IMO.

[Brittany]

Emma is on my to read list at some point! Glad you are loving it Sonnie!!


Yeah once I get back to it I will catch up quick likely. Just have to get the time and motivation back! I'm also listening to a 20 hour book again so that takes a lot of time.

[Sonnie]

Laura, I've only read Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and now Emma. But I plan on reading Persuasion or Sense and Sensibility later.

Britt, if you do, listen to it on audible! The narrator is really good! I think they also have a dramatized version as well if you like those!

[Anna]

I haven’t read ANY Jane Austen yet. I had planned to read P&P this year. Should I read Emma instead?

[Brittany]

I quite enjoyed P&P when I read it 2 years ago finally.

I might listen to it Sonnie, I dont like using a credit for something I already own a copy of. I could check if the library has it though.

[Sonnie]

Anna just up to you! Both are good, but I just seem to enjoy Emma more.

I bet they would Britt! It's probably super cheap just to buy on Audible too. I can't remember.

[Sonnie]

Finished and I really loved it! Also hubs took me to see the new movie. It started off a bit slow, but I ended up really enjoying it! I loved their version of Mr. Knightly. Super swoon-worthy.

Next up I think is

[Sonnie]

I actually ended up rereading and then read . I needed a feel good reread because I just could not focus on anything with all the stuff going on in the world. But the weather has been perfect this past week so I've been going outside in our yard and reading. Making progress with and am really loving it so far.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

That's awesome Sonnie. And I totally get you. I think that's what I need to do cause it's been WEEKS since I touched a book.

[Brittany]

Feel good rereads are helpful for those book slumps!
Glad you are loving the Amy Harmon book. One day I am going to read more of her stuff. Making Faces is still one of my absolute fave books.

[Anna]

I’m so glad you loved What the Wind Knows, Sonnie! I hope I’ll like it to when the time comes to read it.

[Sonnie]

Finished . It was AMAZING. It took me a minute to get into it, but once I did I loved it. I need the next book now! It definitely got me out of my book slump.

Now I'm reading and so far I'm loving it.

[Brittany]

Awesome Sonnie.
Glad to hear you are enjoying Serpent and Dove as well. I keep putting it off for some reason.

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

I am so, so glad you loved From Blood and Ash. I love it so much I think it may possibly be my fave JLA book of all time.

[Sonnie]

Finished both and . They were both AMAZING and I need the next books now. Chain of Gold was a bit slow, but I have a feeling the next book is going to be a solid 5 stars.

Currently reading which has mixed reviews, but I'm giving it a chance. And listening to and for my nonfiction book.

[Brittany]

Glad you enjoyed Serpent and Dove, I keep hearing mixed thoughts on it but do want to try it eventually.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

So glad to hear you enjoyed Chain of Gold! I've only read one chapter so far but I'm gonna get back to it as soon as I finish Lord of Shadows!

[Laura ☾]

Sonnie wrote: "Finished both and . They were both AMAZING and I need the next books now. Chain of Gold was a bit slow, but I have a feeling th..."

Brittany wrote: "Glad you enjoyed Serpent and Dove, I keep hearing mixed thoughts on it but do want to try it eventually."

I loved Serpent and Dove and really enjoyed Chain of Gold as well!

[Teodora]

Serpent and Dove gave me LIFE
I loved it and I can't wait for the sequel!