Elena's 2020 Reading Challenge

[Elena]

Here I want to track all of my challenges, buddy reads, readathons and other activities or goals or whatever... :D

Buddy Reads and Group Reads:
Finished 33


Readathons:
✔ 1. January 04-10 7 books in 7 days (3075 pages)
✔ 2. February 08-14 7 books in 7 days (2923 pages)
✔ 3. March 14-20 7 books in 7 days (2734 pages)
✔ 4. April 04-10 7 books in 7 days (5637 pages)
✔ 5. June 06-12 7 books in 7 days (2650 pages)
✔ 6. July 11-17 7 books in 7 days (2030 pages)

Series to finish:
Finished 7


1. Белорийский цикл о ведьме Вольхе Series [3/4]
2. Discworld Series [1/41]
3. The First Law Series [2/3]
4. Throne of Glass Series [4/7]
5. The Legend of Drizzt Series [4/33]
6. The Six of Crows Duology Series [1/3]
7. Nikolai Duology Series [0/2]
8. Gentleman Bastard Series [1/7]
9. The Aurora Cycle Series [1/3]
10. A Series of Unfortunate Events [9/13]
11. The Riyria Chronicles Series [0/5]
12. The Riyria Revelations Series [2/6]
13. Mistborn Series [1/7]
14. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series [0/5]
15. Innkeeper Chronicles Series [0/5]
16. The Wizards of Once Series [1/3]
17. The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order) Series [0/7]
18. Outlander Series [1/9]
19. Spells & Caramels Series [1/10]
20. The Daevabad Trilogy [1/3]
21. Secret, Book, & Scone Society Series [1/4]
22. Crown of Feathers Series [1/3]
23. Keeper of the Lost Cities Series [1/9]
24. Talon Series [1/5]
25. The Bridge Kingdom Series [1/4]
28. Sorcery and Society Series [1/2]
29. Once Upon a Con Series [1/3]
30. Skyward Series [1/4]
31. Hannah Swensen Series [0/27]
32. Proper Romance Victorian [1/2]
33. Crazy Rich Asians Series [0/3]
34. The Rain Wild Chronicles [0/4]
35. Beechwood Harbor Ghost Mystery [0/5]
36. A Court of Thorns and Roses [0/6]
37. Love & Gelato [1/3]
38. The Folk of the Air [0/3]
39. Shadowvale [0/4]
40. Chaos Seeds [4/8]
41. The Rat Series [2/4]
42. Fandom Hearts Series [1/6]
43. Wizard for Hire Series [1/3]
44. A Cookie House Mystery Series [1/3]
45. The Daoshi Chronicles [0/2]

Graphic novel / manga / manhwa series:
Finished 7


1. 스킵 비트! [10/45]
2. Fruits Basket Series [3/23]
3. Kamisama Hajimemashita Series [2/26]
4. Bleach Series [5/74]
5. Vampire Knight Series [1/19]

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Good luck on all your challenges! 😊

[Elena]

Thank you :)

[Brittany]

Love the challenges, all the best of luck!

I saw on your 7 books in 7 days (impressive btw) that you read The Assassin's Edge! How did you like it? I loved that series. Have you read other series by the author?

[Laura ☾]

Good luck Jess!

[Elena]

Thanks both of you :)

Brittany wrote: "I saw on your 7 books in 7 days (impressive btw) that you read The Assassin's Edge! How did you like it? I loved that series. Have you read other series ..."

I only read The Tales of Einarinn Series by this author and really enjoyed the world there. I love unique, detailed worlds and those books have it.
I also enjoyed the plot. There are plenty of those moments when you think that the situation is impossible to deal with, but the characters manage to go through tough times.
Long time ago when I read the first book (but had no time to read the whole series and only now could finally do it) it helped me to deal with my difficult situation back then. So the series also has a special meaning for me.

[Elena]

Added a new BR February 01 The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

[Brittany]

Thats wonderful! Thanks for sharing. No special meaning for me just a love of that world and how well portrayed everything the characters go through is.

[Sonnie]

Wow, I'm super impressed with the 7 books in 7 days! I'm jelly, it's been so long since I've been able to just sit and read a book in one day lol!

[Elena]

@Sonnie I used to think that I also have no time for reading a book a day, but just tried to read more, fill any free space of my day with reading and it actually helped :D

[Sonnie]

Jess, I've been thinking of going on a social media ban, because there is so many times when I'm just mindlessly scrolling through FB when I could be reading. Might have to schedule a weekend soon dedicated just to reading and see how many I can get through!

[Anna]

I too am inspired by 7 books in 7 days. How fun!
I need to get off social media to read too. So easy to get sucked in and before you know it, an hour or so has passed by!

[Brittany]

Agreed!! Far too much social media.

[Elena]

I've been away from my laptops for several days, couldn't write to you guys :) hope you'll manage to do it, not really tough when you actually try )
And I think I'll be having 6 weeks a-book-a-day from today )) I've broken my shoulder 5 days ago (

[Laura ☾]

Oh I hope it recovers quickly Jess!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

That sounds like it's no fun at all 😬 I hope you get better soon!

[Brittany]

YOUCH!!! I feel for you. What happened? I havent broken mine but I've dislocated it and that wasn't pleasant.

[Elena]

Fell off the stairs :( thank you for your support! Hope I get well soon and back to writing more reviews and messages :)

[Elena]

I'm going to participate in the new readathon :) February 08-14 7 books in 7 days

[Elena]

And a new challenge Blind Date With A Book February - March

[Elena]

I've just finished my 2nd readathon this year :) February 08-14 7 books in 7 days

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Nice! That's pretty incredible!

[Elena]

Liliana wrote: "Nice! That's pretty incredible!"

Thank you :) I had not much to do because of my shoulder fracture, so just kept on reading :DD

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

That's one positive thing in this situations. Lol. How is your shoulder doing?

[Elena]

Liliana wrote: "That's one positive thing in this situations. Lol. How is your shoulder doing?"

Still healing, thanks for asking. I'll definitely write a msg here when it's healed :D

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Well, I am sending you all the well wishes! I can't imagine it's any fun 😖

[Elena]

Liliana wrote: "Well, I am sending you all the well wishes! I can't imagine it's any fun 😖"

Thank you :)

[Brittany]

Yay for all that reading!
Hope it heals up well!

[Elena]

Thank you :) now it's pretty inconvenient to write messages :D later I'm going to comment your personal challenges too, quite interesting to read

[Elena]

Added new series to finish: 12. Arc of a Scythe Series [2/3]

[HeatherH]

So looking forward to starting the Scythe series this year! I love every Shusterman book that I read.

[Elena]

I think you're going to love it, at least for me the first 2 books were page-turners.

[Brittany]

I loved the first one, thought the second was just okay. Looking forward to reading book 3 sometime this year though

[Sonnie]

Oh no! I hope you recover quickly!
I've heard so much good stuff about Scythe! My hairdresser was really going on about how great it was the last time she trimmed my hair (she's pretty awesome lol).

[Elena]

@Brittany the ending of the 2nd book was a bit strange, but when I've learned that there will be the 3rd one, it made some sense :)

@Sonnie thank you :) hope you'll love it!

[Elena]

Oh! What a tough month it was! I've spent all month in this fixation bandage and finally my arm is free! Still long way to go. Rehabilitation process is pretty long :( But I'm happy I finally can do some simple things with both hands :)

[HeatherH]

So glad your arm is free!!!!

[Brittany]

Yay that it is healing!! Rehab is hard but you will get through it

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

That's great news Jess! You may have a way to go from here, but this is progress!

[Elena]

Thanks for your support, guys! :)
Added a new readathon, starts March 14
3. March 14-20 7 books in 7 days

[Elena]

UPDATE: added 2 more series to read.
13. The Mortal Instruments Series [2/6]
14. Gentleman Bastard Series [0/7]

[Elena]

UPD: finished one more book in the series

7. Throne of Glass Series [3/7] Heir of Fire

It was 3 stars for me and took pretty long to read.

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

Heir of Fire is such a long book but it's actually my favourite of the series. It was such a game changed. Saying that though I loved it more on my re-read rather than the first go.

[Brittany]

Jess wrote: "Thanks for your support, guys! :)
Added a new readathon, starts March 14
3. March 14-20 7 books in 7 days"

Hmmm... I may try and join you on this one, I'm on nights for that time period and tend to get more read. Although half of it might be comics.
Either way best of luck!

[Elena]

@Kay it's nice you love it. I also enjoyed reading it, not as much as I wanted though. For me it was long not because of pages count, but because it was a bit boring.

@Brittany thank you! I'm happy you want to try it too. The more, the merrier! :)

[Elena]

Yesterday I finished one more BR: ✔ 5. March 07-09 Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
It was pretty good yet not enough. And I found a combo of genres I'd like to read more. Somewhat unexpected: fantasy + western.

[Elena]

I've just finished BR of The Hate U Give. I totally get the hype about the book, but actually the story wasn't interesting. Nice read though.

[HeatherH]

Something similar to the hate you give but that I personally thought was way better was All American Boys. If you’re interested in trying something else along those lines anyways!

[Elena]

@Heather I'm not sure if I'm interested in reading something similar, but anyways thanks for your recommendation.

[Elena]

One more BR finished. Enjoyed this one so much! Aurora Rising was a solid 4-star for me. Another page-turner for this year. I'm also going to read the next book in the series.