LOST 2021

[Tien]

Lyn!! It's good to see you dropping by :)

Happy New Year & hope all's well with you & family xo

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Tien wrote: "Lyn!! It's good to see you dropping by :)

Happy New Year & hope all's well with you & family xo"

Thanks. 2020 was a REALLY bad year for me. I'll fill you guys in on it later, but I think I'm finally back! Looking forward to getting back into things.

[Bea]

Welcome back, Lyn. You are linked.

[Lena]

Here is the list for my LOST 2021 challenge. As 2020 doesn't really work out that fine I hope that I'll crush it this year. So here it is:

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. The Picture of Dorian Grey
3. 1984
4. Beneath a Scarlet Sky
5. Depression & Other Magic Tricks
6. The Princess Saves Herself in This One
7. Rebel of the Sands
8. Tipping the Velvet
9. Giovanni's Room
10. New York

I'm looking so much forward to this now. I haven't realized that there are such awesome hidden gems here.
However, I still want to finish my LOST 2020 so there are still 5 and a half books left (the half book is half read). Fingers crossed.

[Bea]

Lena, you are linked. I have been known to use unread books from old games in new games...thus, making headway on new games and finishing up old ones!

[Blarneygod]

I read 6 from my Lost list last year. Let's see how this year goes. I liked having a longer list last year, having the freedom of a bit more to chose from, then taking DNF liberally off the list as I go. I am starting to realize that many books that have been on my to read list for soooo long are because I really don't want to read them. It feels freeing to finally erase books off my list, even if it is not through actually reading them. My goal this year is to read or erase through 2015 (last year's goal was 2009, but I didn't quite make it. I had 5 left.)

Started from last year's Lost list, but haven't finished yet:
Middlesex (2009) DNF
A Little Princess (2009) - read
2007:
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood read
2009:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter I took off my list without reading. I decided it looked too depressing. Sometimes books are on our lists for a long time because we really don't want to read them. This is one of those books.
Good in Bed I took this off my list for now because I am going to start with a different book from this author first. I will probably put the book back on my list if I like the author.
2010:
The Guardian read
The Rescue
Olive Kitteridge
P.S. I Love You
The Glass Castle read
The Stand
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
People of the Book
2011:
Dark of Night
The Friday Night Knitting Club-currently reading
2012:
Ella Enchanted - read
Stardust read
2014:
Leaving Time read

[Bea]

Blarneygod, you are linked. Good luck on this list. I have read several of them and hope you enjoy your reading.

[Jacm]

This looks like a good chance to cross some books off my TBR. Looks like I was going through a Tudor history kick!

Here is my list:

1 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 4★
2 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 4★
3 The Princess Bride by William Goldman5★
4 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
5 Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey
6 The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
7 The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
8 In the Land of Blue Burqas by Kate McCord
9 The Virgin Queen's Daughter by Ella March Chase
10 The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle

[Megan]

My 2021 LOST list!

1. The Angel's Game
2. Poison Study
3. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
5. The Prestige
6. People of the Book
7. Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
8. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
9. The Bronze Horseman
10. Pale Phoenix

[Blarneygod]

Bea wrote: "Blarneygod, you are linked. Good luck on this list. I have read several of them and hope you enjoy your reading."

Hey Bea, Which books did you like from my list? It is always nice to have a little direction of where to start:) A few of the books I read recently have been a struggle to get through. It would be nice to get pulled into a really good book. I miss that feeling. I am just glad that I finally just took most of the classics off my list. The first few years of my participating with this challenge, my classics were just continually rolling over.

[Blarneygod]

Jacm wrote: "This looks like a good chance to cross some books off my TBR. Looks like I was going through a Tudor history kick!

Here is my list:

1 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by [author:Victor Hu..."

I loved the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society!

[Blarneygod]

Megan wrote: "My 2021 LOST list!

1. The Angel's Game
2. Poison Study
3. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
5. [book..."

Megan, I have People of the Book on my Lost list this year also:)

[Megan]

Blarneygod wrote: "Megan wrote: "My 2021 LOST list!

1. The Angel's Game
2. Poison Study...

Looks like you have a great list. Ella Enchanted was one of my absolute favorites growing up!

[Bea]

Blarneygod wrote: "Hey Bea, Which books did you like from my list? "

Blarneygod, I have read 4-5 of the books you have listed. Some were just 3* for me, meaning I liked them but could put them down and walk off. One was a 4* read. This means I enjoyed the book, that I got into the story and characters. That book was Ella Enchanted. However, one was a 5* read for me. That indicates a book that I not only enjoyed but had some reaction to that impacted my life. That book was People of the Book.

I hope one of these works as well for you as it did for me.

[Bea]

Blarneygod wrote to Jacm: "I loved the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society!"

So did I...4* read for me.

[Bea]

Jacm and Megan - you are both linked.

[Blarneygod]

Megan wrote: "Blarneygod wrote: "Megan wrote: "My 2021 LOST list!

1. The Angel's Game
2. Poison Study...

Looks like you have a great list. Ella Enchanted was one of my ..."

My daughter enjoyed Ella Enchanted also, so I am really looking forward to reading that one. I love reading Juvenile Fiction because those books give me instant gratification since they tend to be shorter and therefore finished more quickly:) The amount of books I read in a year have definitely gone up since I started reading more books like that. I don't like reading really long books that take me months to read (like Fountainhead) because I don't feel like I have accomplished as much with only one book read after months of reading (which is silly because reading is reading).

[Blarneygod]

Bea wrote: "Blarneygod wrote: "Hey Bea, Which books did you like from my list? "

Blarneygod, I have read 4-5 of the books you have listed. Some were just 3* for me, meaning I liked them but could put them dow..."

Bea, Thanks for the tips! I already had Ella Enchanted high up on my list to read soon, but now I know to put People of the Book up there as well. I loved that author's Year of Wonders (one of my favorite books), but I didn't like Caleb's Crossing (I can't even remember what it was about). Did you ever read her book, March? I had it on my to read list because I love Little Women, but took it off after reading the reviews and after reading Caleb's Crossing.

[Bea]

Blarneygod wrote: "Did you ever read her book, March?"

No, I haven't read March or Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women but both are on my TBR Wishlist.

However, unlike you, I loved and gave 5* to Caleb's Crossing, partly because, I am sure, of the Native American and Puritan back stories of each of the main characters. I am drawn to stories of people who surpass the stereotypes they are born within.

Year of Wonders got 4* from me, so overall I seem to really like Geraldine Brooks books.

[Blarneygod]

Bea wrote: "Blarneygod wrote: "Did you ever read her book, March?"

No, I haven't read March or Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women but both are on my TBR Wishlis..."

Bea: LOL you make Caleb's Crossing sound so interesting when you describe it that you ALMOST make me want to try to read it again.

[Bea]

Blarneygod wrote: "Bea: LOL you make Caleb's Crossing sound so interesting when you describe it that you ALMOST makes me want to try to read it again. "

LOL

[Melissa]

my list goes all the way back to 2013.


1.Circles of Stone DNF
2.DragonSpell
3. She Who Remembers
4.Birth of the Firebringer
5.Dragon's Milk
6. Joheved
7. The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
8. The Dovekeepers 5/16/2021
9.The Martian
10.The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars #1) date read 2/16/2021



Books completed 3/10
Sequels of list read
1.Mr. Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars #2) date read 2/23/2021

[Bea]

Melissa, you are linked. And, another dragon book on your list, too.

Personally, I think the dragons are coming out of their caves at the honor of having us read a shelf about them! They are everywhere!

[Rosalynn]

Rosalynn's Lost List 2021
Progress 0/10

1.) #Girlboss
2.) One Plus Onee
3.) The Shoemaker's Wife
4.) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
5.) Little Bee
6.)The Fault in Our Stars
7.) Defending Jacob
8.) Odd Thomas
9.) The Maze Runner
10.) The Silent Girl

[Luann]

Bea wrote: "@Luanne: Your're #4 looks like it would work for January's shelf of the month read!"

Thanks for mentioning that, Bea. It will be an incentive to start with that one, and it will help me get started on my list right now in January!

[Bea]

Rosalynn, you are now linked.

[Tien]

Woot! 3 LOST books read in Jan :O

I doubt that I'd be able to keep this up though lol

[Kristina Simon]

Tien wrote: "Woot! 3 LOST books read in Jan :O

I doubt that I'd be able to keep this up though lol"

Great start, though! ;-)

[Bea]

Wow, impressive, Tien!

[Lisette]

Great start Tien!

[Blarneygod]

I am impressed Tien! I have not even read one yet.

[Tien]

Thanks, all, I did purposely pick all the short ones lol

But still counts :p

[Blarneygod]

Yes it does!! :)

[Katherine]

LOST 2021
What do these book's have in common - they are either a horror, fantasy or humor books or all three.... huh what does that say about me?! lolz

Added in 2013:
1. The Phantom Of The Opera
2. Dodger
3. The Thin Executioner
4. Les Misérables
5. Thud!
6. The Truth
7. Raising Steam

Added in 2014:
8. Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

Added in 2017:
9. Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far
10. Critical Failures V




Back up list:

1. The Zimmah Chronicles: The Complete Series
2. Dead Scary: The Ghost who refused to leave
3. 20 Eternal Masterpieces of Children Stories
4. School for Scumbags
5. Castle Waiting

[Dree]

I'm doing great this year - 6 down already!! 🤣

6/10

1) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
2) Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen ★★
3) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
4) The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -DNF
5) The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver - DNF
6) Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - DNF
7) Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill - DNF
8) Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
9) The Grasshopper Trap - Patrick McManus
10) The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood - DNF

[Lisette]

Dree wrote: "I'm doing great this year - 6 down already!! 🤣"

Great start. Even though you didn't finish most of them, you did try them and could remove them of your list

[Tien]

Wow, good job, Dree!

[Dree]

Its pretty easy to get through when you only ready 50 pages of each book! 🤣🤣

Are we doing a FOUND this year? At this rate I might even get to it! 😉

I have decided to be a bit ruthless this year. All of the DNF's I didn't think were bad books - they just aren't something that really grabbed me. So this year I'm culling them straight away. So many books, so little time!

[Bea]

Dree, there will be both a Found and a Lost & Found this year...but not soon.

I loved The Poisonwood Bible, but I think that was more due to my background. It was the first book that I read by Barbara Kingsolver.

I agree with you on The Picture of Dorian Gray. It just was not my book...and I read it all.

You are so strong. I find it hard to DNF a book...even if I do not like it.

[Dree]

Bea wrote: "Dree, there will be both a Found and a Lost & Found this year...but not soon.

I loved The Poisonwood Bible, but I think that was more due to my background. It was the first book that I read by Bar..."

Oh me too Bea, I have had to train myself. Its probably been easier lately as I have been in a huuuuge reading slump - these are not the only ones I haven't finished - there's probably another 5 just in the last few weeks! I just keep not feeling it & moving on.

The Vonnegut & Attwood are second attempts at the authors' - & I just decided I don't particularly like their style, so thats easy enough. I have to say though, that The Poisonwood Bible is one I might actually pick up again - I was enjoying it. I just felt like it was going to be too long for my current attention span!

[Marina]

I've just finished my first book for LOST 2021! And it was a rather good one, too :) Aaaand, I've started one for LOST 2020 - I still had 4 to go, and I'm determined to read them (sooner or later)!

[Bea]

Marina (Sonnenbarke) wrote: "I've just finished my first book for LOST 2021! And it was a rather good one, too :) Aaaand, I've started one for LOST 2020 - I still had 4 to go, and I'm determined to read them (sooner or later)!"

Congrats on breaking into LOST 2021, Marina!

[Meg]

I've finally read my first - Death Comes to Pemberley
I didn't like it very much, so that's a bad sign for my challenge this year!

[Tien]

Meg wrote: "I've finally read my first - Death Comes to Pemberley
I didn't like it very much, so that's a bad sign for my challenge this year!"

I'm not a fan of that book either...
That's the only book I've read from your LOST list though so can't recommend any of the others, sorry! Hopefully next one is better :)

[LynnB]

I just finished my 8th (of 10) books!!
I started doing the LOST challenge in 2012 and this is the first year I have read them this fast. Usually I am struggling to get them all finished by the end of the year -- I majored in procrastination ;)
(feeling happy!)
I hope everyone else is doing well in getting them read too!

[Lisette]

Doing great, LynnB! I have read 4 I think

[Bea]

Wow! That is great, LynnB!

I have read 3 and have another on my desk to pick up.

[Tien]

Woohoo, LynnB! Such a good feeling hey :)

I've got 3 to go.

[Blarneygod]

Wow great job everyone!!! I am a bit behind this year.... I have not read any from my lost list yet....

[Lisette]

Still plenty of time Blarneygod :D