Janice's Lists 2015

[Janice, Moderator]

I like to read my audiobooks in order of purchase. But, I'm tired of going to MyBooks and sorting the list each time I'm ready to read a new book.

I've since decided I need to do that with my home library and ebooks just to get the dust off them.

Then there's Toppler planning. So I think I'm just going to use this to make some lists.

New Audiobooks added 2015
New Print Books added 2015
April 2015 Toppler
June 2015 Toppler
August 2015 challenge - This or That
August 2015 toppler - Who are You?
October 2015 challenge - Cryptogram
Oc-Toppler 2015

☛ = currently reading
✔ = read
♦ = abandoned

[Janice, Moderator]

Audiobooks - owned and listed in reading order.


✔ - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
✔ - Twelve Years a Slave
✔ - The Martian
✔ - The Viscount and the Witch
✔ - The Jester
✔ - The Rose and the Thorn
✔ - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
✔ -A Game of Thrones
✔ - A Land More Kind Than Home
✔ - The Reincarnationist
✔ - The Son
✔ - The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
✔ - Wool Omnibus
✔ - Child of Fire
✔ - Shady Palms
✔ - The Reluctant Assassin
✔ - Grave Peril
✔ - Summer Knight
✔ - The Providence Rider
✔ - Dog on It
♦ - All Our Yesterdays
✔ - The Dreams of a Dying God
✔ - Glory in Death
✔ - The Golem and the Jinni
✔ - Neverwhere
✔ - Wayward
✔ - Immortal in Death
♦ - The Crystal Shard
✔ - Outlander
✔ - Pope Joan
✔ - Lover Unbound
✔ - The Book of Life
Moon Called
✔ - The Rithmatist
✔ - The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories
✔ - Jhereg
✔ -Moon Called
✔ - Halfway to the Grave
✔ - The Hundred-Foot Journey
✔ - Brilliance
The Wicked Girls
☛ - The Lost Wife
The Orenda
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings
✔ - Among Others
The Fairy Godmother
Fated
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
✔ - Red Seas Under Red Skies
Mitosis
Nevermore - Novel of Love, Loss, & Edgar Allan Poe
Neverland
Covet
Canticle
Daughter of the Forest
Everything I Never Told You
The Vanishing
Night Film
They Thirst
✔ - The Winter People
The Exorcist
Between Two Fires
Murder as a Fine Art
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Lord John and the Private Matter
✔ - The Waste Lands
Dance of Death
✔ - Tricked
The Black Country
✔ - The River of Souls
Blue Moon Rising
Thief's Magic
Hollow World
Murder on the Orient Elite
A Christmas Carol
An Inquiry Into Love and Death
✔ - Euphoria
The Hollow Ground
✔ - The Hobbit
Cold City

[Janice, Moderator]

Home library: Mix of books & ebooks, in order acquired (and preferred order to read). I can see that the series challenge will mess with the reading order.

♦ - Caribbean
✔ - Crow Lake
♦ - Dreaming the Eagle
✔ - The House at Riverton
♦ - The Mantra
✔ - The Chosen Soul
✔ - Crestmont
✔ - The Thirteenth Tale
✔ - The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story Of Survival During The War In The Far East
Four Past Midnight
Shantaram
The Forever Queen
Again Calls the Owl
♦ - Walk Gently This Good Earth
Honolulu
Patron Saint of Liars
House of Leaves
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Covenant
Half Broke Horses
Space
The Wolf's Hour
A Metis Traveler on the Red Road
Arthur
Great Expectations
Circle of Bones
Fire And Ice
Cemetery Dance
Mystery
The Talisman
The Wheel of Darkness
Drood
Ape House
The Golden Goblet
The Elfstones Of Shannara
The Golden Unicorn
Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand: A Novel of Adam and Eve
Antony and Cleopatra
Cannery Row
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Bone Garden
Rising Sun
Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Ghost Brush aka The Printmaker's Daughter
I Am the Chosen King
Hawk of May
Mutant Message Down Under
The Book of Salt
Home From The Vinyl Cafe: A Year Of Stories
The Amateur Marriage
Rules for Virgins
✔ - The Chaperone
We, the Drowned
✔ - Seed
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Death in August
The Hungering Saga Complete
The Hounding
✔ - City of Women
Blackberry Winter
Goldengrove
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Waterfall
Eyewall
Two Graves
Bone River
✔ - The Redeemer
✔ - Phantom
What the Body Remembers
✔ - The Hangman's Daughter
✔ - The Dark Monk
✔ - The Beggar King
✔ - The Poisoned Pilgrim
Too Many Murders
Tatterdemon
The Emperor's Edge
Devotion
The Forgotten Ones
Flame Moon
Still Life With Murder
Death Is a Lonely Business
The Lost Girl
The Blood Gospel
The Gingerbread Man
Doll of Dawson
The Embroidered Corpse
Letters from the Looney Bin
The Hiding Place
The Chalice and the Blade

[Janice, Moderator]

Home Library - second half (ouch!) Combo of books and ebooks. In order acquired (and preferred order to read).


The Little Russian
Moll Flanders
The Casual Vacancy
Death Comes to Pemberley
The Thief
Enchantress
The WishKeeper
✔ - Police
The Child Thief
Cobweb Bride
Angel Walk
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Russian Winter
The Dead Zone
The Summoning
The Cutting Season
✔ - Death Masks
Blood Rites
Dead Beat
A Quest of Heroes
Song of the River
The House Girl
The Danger
Forfeit
The Third Gate
The Tourist
The Coroner's Lunch
My Mother Was Nuts
False Impression
Tooth and Nail
✔ - 'Salem's Lot
Small World
The Emperor's Knife
The Boy in the Suitcase
Stolen Songbird
Carniepunk
Everflame
A Secret Woman: A Novel
✔ - Blackberry Wine
Clan Rathskeller
A Test of Mettle
A Reign of Steel
The Sekhmet Bed
Reincarnation of the Black Rose: The Witch Narratives #1
Ghost Song
Spring Tide
The Red Garden
Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
A Land Of Fire
Pentecost
The Good Knight
Never Buried
The Color of Heaven
✔ - The Garden of Evening Mists
The Gift of Rain
Jane Was Here
The Priest of Blood
✔ - Jackaby
A Rule of Queens
The Ninth Orphan (will likely never read)
Four Novels – Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End
The Bloodletter's Daughter
This Doesn't Happen In The Movies
Night of Knives
The Cure of Souls
The Lamp of the Wicked
✔ - Hollow City
Dissolution
The Forever King
Alone
Far Horizons
Shepherd's Quest
Paskagankee
The Dry Grass of August
Thief of Hope
Those Who Save Us
Sand Omnibus
V is for Vengeance
Isle of Woman
The Ice Princess
The Preacher
The Stonecutter
✔ - The Serpent's Tale
Dark Fire
Sovereign
Revelation
Heartstone
Blood Orchids
The Demonologist
A Morbid Taste for Bones

[Janice, Moderator]

New audiobook purchases since Jan 1, 2015:


Steelheart
✔ - The Last Town
Rapture in Death
Ceremony in Death
Vengeance in Death
Holiday in Death
Conspiracy in Death
Circle of Reign
Hard Magic
✔ - All the Light We Cannot See
The Book of the Dead
Deadly Night
✔ - Wallbanger
The Good House
The Bird Eater
✔ - Wizard and Glass
The Devil's Workshop
✔ - The Republic of Thieves
✔ - Fairest
A Better World
The Wretched of Muirwood
The Blight of Muirwood
The Scourge of Muirwood
✔ - I'll Give You the Sun
✔ - Fuzzy Nation
Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Elantris
The Girl with All the Gifts
A Crucible of Souls
✔ - Wolves of the Calla
Deadline
✔ - Song of Susannah
✔ - The Dark Tower
Pretty When She Dies
✔ - Trapped
✔ - The Secret Place
Beautiful Creatures
Jurassic Park
Dodger
Monster Hunter International
✔ - Hunted
✔ - Finders Keepers
Stone of Tymora: Forgotten Realms
✔ - The Hot Rock
Professional Integrity
My Sister's Grave
Sunshine
♦ - You
✔ - Shattered
Lord of the Flies
Lock In
Lolita
A Man Called Ove
✔ - The Magicians
Blood Work
The Prince of Tides
March
Thornwood House
The Magician's Lie
✔ - The Nightingale
Three
His Majesty's Dragon
Blood Song
Anno Dracula
A Darker Shade of Magic
Red Queen
Dreamer's Pool
Throne of Glass
✔ - Blaze
Born with Teeth
The Girl in 6E
The Secret Keeper
Sandman Slim
✔ - The Bone Clocks
Lover Eternal
The Element of Fire
Locke & Key Slipcase Set
✔ - Tipping the Velvet
Blood Destiny
Trail of Broken Wings
✔ - Winter
Shadow and Bone
Son of the Shadows

[Janice, Moderator]

New print books added since January 1, 2015


The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
People of the Thunder
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Children's Hour
Malice
✔ - A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
A March of Kings
✔ - Inamorata
Written in Red
SongHealer: from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XI
People of the Masks
Red Country
The Monk
The Last Quarrel: Episode 1
Rise of the Dragons
Henna House
Club Shadowlands
Blood Oath: Janna Chronicles 1
The Moonstone
✔ - Three Men in a Boat
✔ - Broken Harbour
Let Me Whisper In Your Ear
A Death In Vienna
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Dangerous Beauty - Life and Death in Africa: True Stories From a Safari Guide
A Fate of Dragons
Nightmare House
A Cry of Honor
✔ - Second Grave on the Left
✔ - Third Grave Dead Ahead
✔ - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
✔ - Fifth Grave Past the Light
✔ - Sixth Grave on the Edge
✔ - One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
✔ - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
♦ - A God in Ruins
The Black Prism
A Vow of Glory
The Island of Eternal Love
✔ - Bird Box
The Legacy of the Key
The Black Isle
Days of Blood & Starlight
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
✔ - Drake of Tanith
✔ - Queen of Abaddon
Once Burned
Twice Tempted
Bound by Flames
A Rite of Swords
The Taker
✔ - Rebel Queen
Bone Gap
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
✔ - For I Have Sinned
✔ - Seventh Grave and No Body
✔ - Eighth Grave After Dark
Homeland
Darkfever
Unwanted
Ghouls Rush In
One for the Money
Marked
Claimed
The Sorcerer's House
✔ - The Girl on the Train
Wicked as They Come
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Spider and the Stone
The Cove
✔ - Library of Souls
The Queen of the Tearling
The Invasion of the Tearling
✔ - A Head Full of Ghosts
Morrigan's Cross
Carmilla
Brighter Than the Sun
Thirty-Three Teeth
Tails of Wonder and Imagination
Tooth and Claw
Carrion Comfort

[Janice, Moderator]

February Toppler lists:


Where does your date live?
✔ - Canada - Crow Lake 324 pgs

What are your date's Hobbies?
✔ - Collecting Comic Books - Wayward 8:43 hours

Date's Occupation?
✔ - Don't want my date to have - The Last Town

Couples:
✔ - Gene Roddenbary & Marjel (SciFi) - The Martian 10:53
✔ - Shaggy and Scooby Doo (murder mystery) The Reincarnationist
✔ - Johnny Depp & Debra (sexy) - Fever

[Anne (Booklady)]

Janice, I loved The Lost Wife!

I should fill in books on my list, but I know I'll change them, LOL.

[Janice, Moderator]

Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Janice, I loved The Lost Wife!

I should fill in books on my list, but I know I'll change them, LOL."

I just looked at the book page, and I see I have you indicated as the person who recommended it to me. :)

[Sandra, Moderator]

wow, that's a list. Do you do most of your reading in audio books, Janice?

[Janice, Moderator]

About 50/50. Still have to add my books & ebooks lists - there's about 180 of them. Groan!

[Tasha]

Wow! nice looong lists! ;)

[Peggy]

Wow Janice, that is quite a list!

I think I also have about 180 books, some hardcopy, most on my ereader. On the one hand it's exciting that I still have so many books to read that I'm looking forward to, on the other hand I feel a bit overwhelmed in that I can only read about 70 books a year, and that my owned books will continue to grow with the hundreds of books on my tbr ;-)

[Janice, Moderator]

It is overwhelming. I was shocked once I had all the audiobooks, books & ebooks listed and wondered why I keep buying more. It's an addiction!

[Janice, Moderator]

Oh dear! Amazon.ca had the first 8 books in the In Death series. I already have the first 3, so picked up 4-8 which cost me $10.45. Then I popped over to audible.com and got the whispersync deals of $.99 each ($4.95).

I can't decide if I should keep updating my lists for new acquisitions, or pretend the lists aren't growing. They're supposed to be shrinking.

I'll think about it and come back.

[Pragya]

Hahaha. That must have taken long, Janice. I think adding to the lists will be more organized and might put you off buying for a while.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Well, if you list them here, someone who sees them might add them to their lists, and then yours won't be the only ones going in the opposite direction...

[Janice, Moderator]

Pragya, that strategy didn't work today. I bought 5 books this morning in spite of my slapping my wrists after I finished my lists.

Sandra, so true! This group has definitely enabled my addiction.

I should probably keep the lists up to date. Decision made.

[Pragya]

Uh oh. Well, maybe someday. :p

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm feeling pretty good about my progress.

I've abandoned one and it Dreaming the Eagle doesn't pick up tonight, I may drop it too. I've been reading it for 3 nights now and keep falling asleep. I don't think I've hit the 50 page mark yet. Maybe it's just slow getting started.

[Peggy]

It looks very structured, with everything in order of acquisition and reading. I'm impressed!

[Janice, Moderator]

Thanks Peggy. I've got to start going back and reading the books in order of acquisition, or some of the books will never get read.

[Peggy]

Lol, that must be confronting. At least I can pretend I'm not buying so many books ;-)

[Sarah]

I'm pleased that you are progressing well. It's nice to tick things off your list.

[Almeta]

I admire your discipline of setting a reading order.

You appear to be making great progress. ☺

[Tasha]

You're really moving on those audio books!

[Janice, Moderator]

I just added another audiobook - The Bird Eater. I picked it up on a whispersync deal - 2.49 + 1.99.

I do tend to read more audiobooks that print books lately.

[Almeta]

Janice wrote: "I just added another audiobook - The Bird Eater. I picked it up on a whispersync deal - 2.49 + 1.99.

I do tend to read more audiobooks that print books lately."

If I could, I'd have all my books be audio.

[Janice, Moderator]

It's getting that way for me, too. Some books don't lend themselves well to audiobook. Either the narrator is a wash, or the style of the book doesn't work for me. For example, I think I would have been really confused listening to Life After Life.

I disliked Roy Dotrice's rendition of A Game of Thrones so much, that I will be reading the trade paperbacks for the rest of the series. As a reviewer said, he made everyone sound like an old man. For me, it was also the slurps, and slobbers that kind of turned me off. Yet... some of his voices were perfect. Like for King Robert. Oh, and I loved his voice for Tyrion. But Arya and Sansa? Not so much.

[Cherie]

After starting to read Life after Life, I am sure it would have been very confusing to listen to it on audio book. I had it book marked on my Overdrive account but I was still three patrons away from being able to borrow it, so I got the ebook, which was available. I thought I had a print copy, but I searched my whole house the other day and could not find it. Amy said it was on our Nook account, but it would not download to my tablet for some reason. Maybe Becky has it, but it was too late to call her and by then, I didn't care. Story of my life.

I am still here at work, catching up on work and reading the posts on GR. My granddaughter has a friend spending the night and I didn't feel like going home and listening to them talk and giggle. I guess I will go and have dinner and read my Nook before I go home.

[Cherie]

Oh, and I was going to comment on your lists. WOW!

[Janice, Moderator]

Sometimes it's fun to listen to the talk and giggles. Other times, a quiet dinner with the Nook is more appealing.

My lists overwhelm me too. I just decided I'm going to give myself permission to be more willing to abandon, or I'll never get through them all.

[Almeta]

Janice wrote: "...My lists overwhelm me too. I just decided I'm going to give myself permission to be more willing to abandon, or I'll never get through them all. ..."

I have a difficult time with abandoning books as well. I just keep thinking something has to improve. YLTO! members are beginning to convince me. There is just not enough time even to read all of the "good" books.

[Janice, Moderator]

I was right in the middle of typing a response to you Almeta when "boom! boom! Out go the lights!" The power is back on, but do I remember? LOL!

I know the feeling. I was determined to read Dreaming the Eagle. I keep thinking that once I get into, I'll really like it. But, I've wasted 4 evenings trying to read this book when I could have been reading something else. When do I pull the plug?

I could have pulled the plug on The Son, but I love Nesbo and the reviews say this book is as good as the Harry Hole series. So I've pushed myself and I'm starting to get into it, and I'll go the distance with this one. (Just realized that the son was a boxer. Hehehe.)

So, I'm bailing on one, and persevering with the other. And yet, if only.... LOL! Overthinking it!

[Janice, Moderator]

April 2015 Toppler

Gophering possibilities -
YA

✔ - Revenge of the Witch: 5 hrs, 14 minutes, audiobook downloaded!
✔- Thirteen Reasons Why: 6.5 hrs, audiobook downloaded!

[Janice, Moderator]

The May challenge needs some planning.

Possibilities:

Mudbound ►►► The Dry Grass of August
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ►►► Honolulu
The Mists of Avalon ►►► Hawk of May
The Shining ►►► The Exorcist
The Shining ►►► Deadline
The Green Mile ►►► The Wolf's Hour
***The Shadow of the Wind ►►► The Thirteenth Tale
In the Woods ►►► The Ice Princess
Speaks the Nightbird ►►► Between Two Fires
NOS4A2 ►►► Neverland
Theft of Swords ►►► Malice
Theft of Swords ►►► The Emperor's Knife
The Wine of Angels ►►► Ghost Song
Rebecca ►►► The Moonstone

[Janice, Moderator]

Hmmmm, I'm not doing so well. The idea was to read from the top of the lists. I seem to be reading all over the lists. Lately, it's been from the bottom. The next two books I start will be bottom feeders. Today, I will start One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, and as soon as I finish my current audiobook, I will start The Secret Place.

[Almeta]

Janice wrote: "Hmmmm, I'm not doing so well. The idea was to read from the top of the lists. I seem to be reading all over the lists. ..."

I'm jumping around a bit also! I think that I've decided to pick a couple from each category, just to keep the variety. Which means, I probably won't complete a single one!☻

The Secret Place is a great book with which to kill a series!☺

[Janice, Moderator]

Almeta wrote: "The Secret Place is a great book with which to kill a series!☺ "

I'm glad to hear it. I thought Broken Harbour was a bit convoluted. It didn't seem like much of a motive. But then, today life was imitating art. I'm tired and cranky, (view spoiler)[ and my neighbor upstairs was doing something. I could hear a faint rapid thumping sound that would last a few seconds. Then it would stop, then start back up. This went on for an hour. I was ready to run up there with a club and wreck some havoc myself. (hide spoiler)]

[jaxnsmom]

I listened to One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd and it was a 5 star book for me. I cried during parts of it, I got so emotionally attached.

[Janice, Moderator]

I started it last night but didn't get much further than the intro and prologue. I was really struck by how the white man called the Indians "savages". They had such a well defined system of manners and thought the white man didn't know how to behave, which they didn't. It makes me wonder who the savages were. I'm looking forward to the story.

[Peggy]

Janice wrote: "Hmmmm, I'm not doing so well. The idea was to read from the top of the lists. I seem to be reading all over the lists. Lately, it's been from the bottom. The next two books I start will be bott..."

Funny, I was looking at your posts with listed books and my thought was: 'Wow, Janice is really sticking to her plan of reading old books first!' I'm very impressed by the continuous checkmarks in your audiobooks and home library.

[Tasha]

I haven't even started my list yet so I'm impressed with your progress!

[Almeta]

Janice wrote: " and my neighbor upstairs was doing something. ..."

I don't know what is worse; not recognizing the sounds your neighbors make or actually knowing what they doing because of the sounds that you hear!☺

[Janice, Moderator]

Almeta wrote: "Janice wrote: " and my neighbor upstairs was doing something. ..."

I don't know what is worse; not recognizing the sounds your neighbors make or actually knowing what they doing because of the sou..."

Well, I wondered but then decided he'd have to have a lot of stamina to sustain it so long. Hehehehe!

[Janice, Moderator]

Peggy wrote: "Funny, I was looking at your posts with listed books and my thought was: 'Wow, Janice is really sticking to her plan of reading old books first!' I'm very impressed by the continuous checkmarks in your audiobooks and home library. "

Thanks Peggy. I'm doing better with the audiobooks than print. Oh well, as long as I'm reading, what does it matter? LOL

[Almeta]

Janice wrote: "Well, I wondered but then decided he'd have to have a lot of stamina to sustain it so long. Hehehehe! ..."

Hmmm, maybe a personal introduction is in order!☻

[jaxnsmom]

Janice wrote: "Well, I wondered but then decided he'd have to have a lot of stamina to sustain it so long. Hehehehe!"

Maybe he's got a bottle of little blue pills :)

[Janice, Moderator]

Almeta! Don't give me ideas. :)

[Sarah]

It's getting a bit steamy over here! ;-)

I have two lists I'm working from (not including my series) and I'm finding I'm getting through one quicker than the other . I guess as long as you are working through at least one of them then that's a good thing.