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Mac - 35 in 2015
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Jan 02, 2015 07:03PM
Hi I'm Mac. Brand new to the group. I'd like to read 35 books this year. Happy New Year everyone. Hope it is a great one!
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1 - All the Light we Cannot See. All the Light We Cannot See. I started this last month but finished on New Year's Day.2 - Crazy Rich Asians. Crazy Rich Asians. Another one I started last year but finished this year. Added January 8, 2015.
OK. Newbie mistake. I guess I comment instead of edit. 1. All the Light We Cannot See.
2. Crazy Rich Asians. Crazy Rich Asians
1. All the Light2. Crazy Rich Asians
3. Ungifted
4. The Signature of All ThingsThe Signature of All Things
Ungifted was short; Signature was super long so it took me quite a while to finish.
Hi Mac,Welcome to the group. You are off to a really good start to the year. I have a few big books coming up, so I am mixing them up with shorter ones too. It is nice to have some shorter ones.
Thanks Jodi!! Are you super excited for any of your "big" books? If so, I may add them to my ever growing wish list!!
1. All the Light2. Crazy Rich Asians
3. Ungifted
4. The Signature of All
5. The Other Story The Other Story: A Novel
You're off to a great start, Mac! Is there anything that you're particularly looking forward to reading this year?
1. All the Light2. Crazy Rich Asians
3. Ungifted
4. The Signature of All
5. The Other Story
6. What Comes After Crazy (not good).
I'm really looking forward to The Bone Clocks too. I read Cloud Atlas last year and it was one of my favorites.
Great. I'll have to check out Cloud Atlas too.
1. All the Light2. Crazy Rich Asians
3. Ungifted
4. The Signature of All
5. The Other Story
6. What Comes After Crazy (not good).
7. The Orphan Master"s Son The Orphan Master's Son
CMac wrote: "Thanks Jodi!! Are you super excited for any of your "big" books? If so, I may add them to my ever growing wish list!!"Hi Mac,
I just started Fall of Giants, which is a fairly large book. I like Ken Follett, so I am looking forward to this one.
A Dance with Dragons is another big one I am reading this year. If you haven't read the Game of Thrones series, I highly recommend it.
House of Leaves is a mid sized book but I am super excited to read it this year.
Thank you. Pillars of the Earth is one of my all time favorites - when it is good, I am glad it is really long and hate for it to end!! I'll look forward to your review on this one and the others! I've started Game of Thrones - with a library loan so it went back before I finished. I think I'll invest and purchase. I've seen Season 1 so I know many of the initial spoilers but the book version is so much better from what I can tell. (May be a while before I look at your review of this one!)
Enjoy!!
I'm probably not going to do the 50 challenge but will try to cross some off as I think it is an intriguing challenge. Plus all 7 of my books fall into a category!! *1. A book with more than 500 Pages A Signature of All Things
*9. A book by a female author What Comes After Crazy
*11. A book with a one word title Ungifted
*13. A book set in a different country All the Light We Cannot See
*18. A Pulitzer Prize winning book The Orphan Master's Son
*29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit Crazy Rich Asians (mainly Singapore)
*?31. A book with bad reviews The Other Story (didn't know their were bad reviews until after I finished - hope that counts; I may try one that I know has bad reviews)
1. All the Light We Cannot See2. Crazy Rich Asians
3. Ungifted
4. The Signature of All
5. The Other Story
6. What Comes After Crazy (not good).
7. The Orphan Master"s Son
8. The Burgess BoysThe Burgess Boys
One more check on the IncREADible challenge - *1. A book with more than 500 Pages A Signature of All Things
*9. A book by a female author What Comes After Crazy
*11. A book with a one word title Ungifted
*13. A book set in a different country All the Light We Cannot See
*18. A Pulitzer Prize winning book The Orphan Master's Son
*29. A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit Crazy Rich Asians (mainly Singapore)
*?31. A book with bad reviews The Other Story (didn't know their were bad reviews until after I finished - hope that counts; I may try one that I know has bad reviews)
*41. A book by an author you've never read before The Burgess Boys
1. All the Light We Cannot See2. Crazy Rich Asians
3. Ungifted
4. The Signature of All
5. The Other Story
6. What Comes After Crazy (not good).
7. The Orphan Master"s Son
8. The Burgess BoysThe Burgess Boys
9. Just Too Good to Be True (not good)
10. The Bone Clocks
The Bone Clocks
the IncREADible challenge - *1. A book with more than 500 Pages A Signature of All Things
*9. A book by a female author What Comes After Crazy
*11. A book with a one word title Ungifted
*13. A book set in a different country All the Light We Cannot See
*18. A Pulitzer Prize winning book The Orphan Master's Son
*29. A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit Crazy Rich Asians (mainly Singapore)
*?31. A book with bad reviews The Other Story (didn't know their were bad reviews until after I finished - hope that counts; I may try one that I know has bad reviews)
*35. A book set in the future The Bone Clocks (about half is future)
*41. A book by an author you've never read before The Burgess Boys
*43. A book that takes place in your hometown - just too Good To Be True (split between Atlanta and fictitious college town)
1. All the Light We Cannot See2. Crazy Rich Asians
3. Ungifted
4. The Signature of All
5. The Other Story
6. What Comes After Crazy
7. The Orphan Master"s Son
8. The Burgess BoysThe Burgess Boys
9. Just Too Good to Be True
10. The Bone Clocks
11. A Christmas Grace (terrible)
the IncREADible challenge - *1. A book with more than 500 Pages A Signature of All Things
*9. A book by a female author What Comes After Crazy
*11. A book with a one word title Ungifted
*13. A book set in a different country All the Light We Cannot See
*18. A Pulitzer Prize winning book The Orphan Master's Son
*29. A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit Crazy Rich Asians (mainly Singapore)
*?31. A book with bad reviews The Other Story (didn't know their were bad reviews until after I finished - hope that counts; I may try one that I know has bad reviews)
*35. A book set in the future The Bone Clocks (about half is future)
*41. A book by an author you've never read before The Burgess Boys
*43. A book that takes place in your hometown - just too Good To Be True (split between Atlanta and fictitious college town)
*45. A book set during Christmas A Christmas Grace
CMac wrote: "the IncREADible challenge - *1. A book with more than
May have to redo #45 Christmas since I really disliked my choice!
IncREADible*3. A book that became a movie,,,Moneyball
35 in 2015 challenge: 13. Everything I Never Told You
IncREADible challenge:
*41. A book by an author you've never read before Everything I Never Told You Everything I Never Told You
Possible good category in the future is "A debut novel"
IncREADible *5. A book with a number in the title The Ten Year Nap
CMac wrote: "IncREADible challenge*46. A book written by an author with your same initials Death On Demand"
Sort of my initials. I guess there weren't any in my library available choices with exactly mine. Wish it would've been a different choice-didn't enjoy this book.
CMac wrote: "35 in 201515. Death on Demand Death On Demand"
Not good. I'm not having a stellar year like last year. Ready for some good books!
16. Wolf HallWolf Hall Massive undertaking. But worth it. Surprised it hasn't been a month since I last posted but I did read a good part of this earlier before the library loan expired and I was offered chance to download a second time.
IncREADible 49. Wolf Hall. Learned it had been made into hit mini series during the reading. I can understand why the public was amazed.
IncREADible*34. A book with a love triangle. The Godwulf Manuscript. Is it a triangle if only the one in the middle knows about the other two? Close enough!
33 TO GO in IncREADible
If I get another love triangle, I'll make Godwulf my "mystery".
CMac wrote: "Great. I'll have to check out Cloud Atlas too."I've just started Landline - it is one that I've been looking forward to reading.
CMac wrote: "CMac wrote: "Great. I'll have to check out Cloud Atlas too."I've just started Landline - it is one that I've been looking forward to reading."
hmmm. Finished Landline. Okay but not knock your socks off. It does have a very creative twist in my view.
*2. A classic romance - Landline. (So, yes, this might be a stretch to call this a classic romance and I might be close to the end of my IncREADible streak but it is a story about "THE ONE".)
CMac wrote: "IncREADible*34. A book with a love triangle. The Godwulf Manuscript. Is it a triangle if only the one in the middle knows about the other two? Close enough!"
Euphoria could qualify.
IncREADible*4. A book published this year. Euphoria (I am stretching a bit - the book was published in June 2014 so within the past year.)
CMac wrote: "IncREADible*4. A book published this year (2015). Euphoria (I am stretching a bit - 2014 publication.)"
Also, there was some magic (or purported magic)!
20. A Grown Up Kind of PrettyA Grown-Up Kind of Pretty*16. A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet A Grown Up Kind of Pretty (although I didn't know I loved this author until I read this second book of hers. I'll now read at least one more.)
*Giving up on IncREADible challenge.
Decided to make Euphoria my love triangle book and hope for a 2015 book. Even though I'm giving up on the IncREADible challenge unless I coincidentally luck into a check mark (still haven't checked the made me cry box or nonfiction box, for example!)
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