Laura's 2021 Reading challenge

[Laura ☾]

Books read: 328/275

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October

[Laura ☾]

2022 reading continued

November


December



Currently reading


PIFM reads
January The Selection
February The Young Elites
March Black Sun
April Aru Shah and the End of Time
May Forest of Souls
June Spoiler Alert; Three Mages and a Margarita
July The Wise Man's Fear
August Legend
September Last Chance Books
October The Right Side of Reckless; Iron Widow
November The House in the Cerulean Sea
December Skyward; The Holiday Switch


Yearly challenges:
-A-Z challenge - 26/26
- A-Z character challenge 26/26
-TBR Jar 32/32
-Tackle that TBR 52/52
-Trope Bingo - 25/25
-Genre Bingo - 25/25

Quarterly Challenges:
-Drink Your Tea Jan to March 6/6
-It's All a Game - 6/6

Statistics:

Genre
Fantasy: 107
Mystery/Thriller: 10
Romance: 45
Sci-Fi: 21
Historical: 6
YA Fantasy: 81
YA Other: 8
Non-fiction: 21
Other: 19

Author
Male: 97
Female: 219
unknown/other: 9

Type
Hardcopy: 21
Ebook: 275
Audio: 24


Length
<200 pages: 17
201-500 pages: 253
501-999 pages: 45
1000+ pages: 4


Star rating
5 - 29
4 - 184
3 - 84
2 - 18
1 - 2

[Laura ☾]

Series to finish (books read in the series in brackets):

Outlander (7/9)
Red Rising Saga (3/6)
Rebel of the Sands (2/3)
Falling Kingdoms (2/6)
Dream Team (3/?)
The Beautiful (2/3)

Series to be continued this year once the next instalment is released





Series to be continued when the next instalment comes out (not this year or date not set)
Blood and Ash (3/4)
The Guild Codex: Unveiled (1/2)
The Black Witch Chronicles (3/4)
The Witchlands (4/5)
Shamanborn (2/3)
Married to Magic (2/3)
Mistborn (6/7)
Hidden Legacy (5/6)
Deathless (1/3)
The Last Hours (2/3)
Kingdom of the Wicked (2/3)
Aurelia Ryder (1/?)
Empire of the Vampire (1/3)
The Stormlight Archive (4/10)
Pandava (4/5)
The Bridge Kingdom (2/5)
Reckless (4/5)
Defy the Night (1/?)
The Archived (2/3)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (4/6)
The Other Side of the Sky (1/2)
A Song of Ice and Fire (5/7)
Dreamer Trilogy (2/3)
Crescent City (1/?)
These Hollow Vows (1/2)
The Book of Dust (2/3)
Alex Stern (1/2)
Villains (2/3)
Legacy of Orisha (2/3)
The Indigo Chronicles (2/3)
Gentlemen Bastards (3/7)
The Iron Covenant (1/3)
Mercy Thompson (12/?)
Alpha & Omega (6/?)
The World Between Blinks (1/?)
Between Earth and Sky (1/3)
Six of Crows (2/3)
Legendborn (1/2)
Realm Breaker (1/3)
Six Crimson Cranes (1/2)
Fractured Fables (1/2)
The Guild Codex: Warped (3/4)
The Kingkiller Chronicle (2/3)
Dark Shores (3/4)
Elantris (1/2)
Warbreaker (1/2)
Thursday Murder Club (2/3)
Vespertine (1/?)
The Iron Widow (1/2)
Little Thieves (1/2)
Witches Steeped in Gold (1/2)
Gilded (1/2)
Skyward (3/4)

Series completed this year
The Selection (5/5)
Graceling (4/4)
Cursebreakers (3/3)
Flame in the Mist (2/2)
The Dark Elements (3/3)
The Young Elites (3/3)
The Edge (4/4)
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (6/6)
Cassidy Blake (3/3)
Lifelike (3/3)
The Brown Sisters (3/3)
The Permafrost (2/2)
King of Scars (2/2)
Something Dark and Holy (3/3)
The Kane Chronicles (3/3)
Spellslinger (6/6)
Percy and Kane crossover (3/3)
Don Tillman (3/3)
The Harbinger (3/3)
The Guild Codex: Spellbound (8/8)
The Guild Codex: Demonized (4/4)
Crown of Feathers (3/3)
Serpent & Dove (3/3)
Silber (3/3)
Magnus Chase (3/3)
Winternight (3/3)
Legend (4/4)
Spell Weaver (3/3)
Steel and Stone (6/6)
Red Winter (3/3)
The Gilded Wolves (3/3)
Rebels of the Ton (3/3)
The Bargainer (3/3)
Drachenreiter (3/3)
Aristotle and Dante (2/2)
Well Met (3/3)
Aurora Cycle (3/3)
Sands of Arawiya (2/2)
These Violent Delights (2/2)
Good Girls Guide to Murder (3/3)
Girls of Paper & Fire (3/3)

[Brittany]

I am so impressed by how caught up with series you are Laura! Also best of luck with your goal

[Elena]

Good luck with all of your challenges and goals :)

[Laura ☾]

Thanks guys!

@brittany hahah I've added one more (Mercy) for the moment - but I'm too OCD to keep series unfinished for too long (except Outlander that is slow progress haha)

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

Good luck on your challenges Laura.

[Laura ☾]

Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "Good luck on your challenges Laura."

Thank you!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Good luck on your challenges! I love that you are able to keep up with your series relatively well. Meanwhile I think I still have 75 series to finish or something 🙈😂

[Laura ☾]

Liliana wrote: "Good luck on your challenges! I love that you are able to keep up with your series relatively well. Meanwhile I think I still have 75 series to finish or something 🙈😂"

Thank you!


OMG 75!! hahah that's so many!

I have to say though I don't include series on that list that I have no intention of continuing - so some series where I've read book 1 but won't continue are not listed there!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

I know! 😂 I am really bad at finishing series and I don't know why lol

That makes sense. I think I may have to go through that list and discard the ones I know I will absolutely not read. Maybe then the list wont be as daunting and then I'll feel like I'm making progress 😂

[Brittany]

I'm over 100 series to complete so I feel you Lili!! Im terrible at finishing series too. There's always new ones to start!
I try to go through them periodically and cull ones that I'll realistically never get back to but I do leave lots on there as maybe one days.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Those Maybe One Days are gonna be the death of us 😂

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

I’ve got 60 series to finish. I went through and got rid of the ones I won’t finish and I’m left with 60. That’s why one of my challenges is to finish 21. I have 23 where there’s only one book left to finish so it shouldn’t be too hard. Fingers crossed.

[Laura ☾]

Ok so I'm caught up with Mercy so far - on Shifting Shadows now

I have to say from that prequel novella and the little glimpses from Mercy I LOVE CHARLES

[Brittany]

<3 Charles is wonderful. Awesome that you are all caught up. I hope to finally catch back up on them both this year

[Laura ☾]

Brittany wrote: "<3 Charles is wonderful. Awesome that you are all caught up. I hope to finally catch back up on them both this year"

Until where have you read?

[Brittany]

Fire touched was the last Mercy I read. I was caught up back then! My next read is to jump to A&O and read Dead Heat though. I've kept to the timeline mostly.

[Laura ☾]

Oooh! I’m reading Shifting Shadows now and after thy I’ll get into A&O I can’t wait

[Brittany]

Make sure you dont miss the prequel! And enjoy :)
I own the next two I need to read and Shifting Shadows so maybe this will be the year..

[Laura ☾]

I already read the prequel it’s in shifting shadows!

Ooh yes update me if you do!

[Brittany]

Will do! What was your fave Mercy book?

[Laura ☾]

I think Silence Fallen actually! How about you (so far)?

[Brittany]

I have Bone Crossed and Silver Borne on my favourites list so one of those two! Its been a long while since I read them though so I cannot remember what happens in which book. Im actually debating a reread.....
I have a signed copy of Fair Game and it makes me so happy. Looking forward to how you feel about A&O

[Laura ☾]

Ooh awesome!

For now I’ve finished Blood Heir

And I’ve started Cry Wolf

[Laura ☾]

SO I finshed Hunting Ground and I love Charles so much! hahaha

And I'm still enjoying the series

[Brittany]

Yes!! Loved reading that one

[Laura ☾]

I have to say Anna is growing on me but Charles absolutely steals the show 😂

Just like Mercy did when there was her and adams POV i just much preferred Mercy although I like Adam

[Brittany]

That's fair. I love Mercy and Adam so much. And Anna definitely grows on you as you go.

[Laura ☾]

Honestly I love Mercy but I only liked Adam - like he’s good for her but I don’t love him as much as a character

[Brittany]

And that is fair too! Adam works for me, but I can understand what you mean

[Laura ☾]

May wrote: "Laura ☾ wrote: "Books read: 23/200

January
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Honestly I wasn’t really a fan sadly!

[Laura ☾]

So I finished Burn Bright and I think I liked Alpha & Omega even more than Mercy! I can't wait for the next book

[Brittany]

Woo! That's awesome! I so need more time to continue them

[Laura ☾]

yeessss you should!

Onto Winterkeep now!!

[Brittany]

AHHH!!! So jealous! The library hasn't gotten a copy so I'll probably use an audible credit to read it. I want to know how it is!

[Laura ☾]

Brittany wrote: "AHHH!!! So jealous! The library hasn't gotten a copy so I'll probably use an audible credit to read it. I want to know how it is!"

I’m about 20% in and so far not really feeling it to be honest

[Brittany]

Oh no! That is so not what I want to hear. Why not?

[Laura ☾]

Brittany wrote: "Oh no! That is so not what I want to hear. Why not?"

I've finished it - It wasn't bad but it just didn't really live up to the original trilogy for me if that makes sense?

[Brittany]

That does, too bad. Maybe I will wait after all then. Sadly this often happens when an author goes back to a finished series years later

[Laura ☾]

Brittany wrote: "That does, too bad. Maybe I will wait after all then. Sadly this often happens when an author goes back to a finished series years later"

Yes! I think one of the few where I really enjoyed the later continuations after it was supposed to be done was The Old Kingdom series!

[Laura ☾]

Ok I finished and honestly it was a disappointing finale

[Brittany]

That sucks to hear! If you can say why it was so disappointing without major spoilers I'm curious.

[Laura ☾]

Honestly it just felt like it was lazy writing - like she was trying to veer away from the romance and get more serious but it didn’t really work?

On the other hand I just finished A Flame in the Mist and that was a really entertaining read!

[Brittany]

Ah, that is not appealing. Thanks for the heads up!

Yay that you read an entertaining one!

[Laura ☾]

Brittany wrote: "Ah, that is not appealing. Thanks for the heads up!

Yay that you read an entertaining one!"

Honestly it was a shame because I really loved the first book! And the second one was also good - only the finale was meh

[Laura ☾]

January update

Books read:



Challenges Completed:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Series finished:
The Selection (5/5)
Graceling (4/4)
Cursebreakers (3/3)
Flame in the Mist (2/2)

[Brittany]

Wow awesome job Laura! Favourite book of the month?

[Laura ☾]

Aw thanks!

Blood Heir I think!

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

Laura ☾ wrote: "Ok I finished and honestly it was a disappointing finale"

Oh nooooo.... I love this series. I'm gonna read it in Feb.