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End Strong/Start Strong Year-End Readathon
Just read for review, Ergonia, Land of the Giant Ants, review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just started The Plague, and WOW! What a vivid reminder of what the beginning of the pandemic was like here. It is crazy that this was written in 1947 and absolutely mimics what has happened in these past months. Which, unfortunately, is not encouraging. Sigh.
I've almost finished
and I'm not sure what I'll start after that.(Aww... it makes me feel good that something I said is having a positive impact on people!)
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This year I was all over the place with a 50 state read, a Debbie Macomber challenge, ICan..."
I'm still working on the Great American Reads list myself! Kind of forgot about it but I have them all on a GR shelf to go back to.
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Kind of terrifying!
Oh I missed that this was happening! I'm currently rushing to get through my 2020 goals, so I might as well join in. And with winter break being so early this year (because of Christmas being on a Friday), I only have the first 3 days of January off! So I won't have much of a chance to get a strong start on 2021, but I'll do what I can.So far I've finished:
1)
Time Management: Proven Strategies to Maximize Your Productivity and End Procrastination by Charles Harvey (it sucked lol) (started before the read-a-thon)2)
Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids by Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp (started before the read-a-thon)3)
Lassie and the Shabby Sheik by George S. Elrick (read entirely today)I have also made progress on these three ongoing reads:
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This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North et al-
Dreams in Her Head (Sparkstone Saga #2) by Clare C. Marshall-
Silent Night (Fear Street Super Chillers #2) by R.L. StineMy minimum goal by the end of the year is to finish those three books, plus read another two TBR books. Ideally I would also read another 3 books on top of that to meet my Goodreads goal. We'll see lol!
In the new year, I will probably start with some library books as I have a bit of a stack at the moment.
What I loved ?... Stacie wrote: " There really isn't any need to read things you don't want to just
"for the numbers". ."
Agreed.. Thanks Stacie!
Loved
Fini.. great follow to
I wanted to read something short before the end of the year, so I picked up
.
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and 68% through
. I started listening to
yesterday and am 50% through. Still intending to finish Clockwork Prince TONIGHT. 160 pages left! I can do it! I ended up doing a bit of meal planning last night so didn't read as much as I wanted to.
After reading/reviewing Ergonia, Land of the Giant Ants yesterday, I then read 170 pp. Of Network Effect! SO TOTALLY GOOD! Beginning in September with Space Opera September, I've been buying Science Fiction, especially when a Kindle Daily Deal, as was Network Effect yesterday. Today I bought Consider Phlebas, so I now own 4 of his 7 in the Culture Series. So I think in January, after I read Persephone Station (SF) followed by The Priory of the Orange Tree (Fantasy), I intend to commence the Culture Series. I also have avoided Fantasy, but I just purchased two today, for January reads:
The Black Prism
And The Raven Tower.
I also would like to get to my ever-growing Witch collection. :)
Stacie wrote: "I've almost finished and I'm not sure what I'll start after that.(Aww... it makes me feel good that something I said is having a positive impact on people!)"
Ohhhhh, this sounds good!! I read an awesome book this year on Prohibition and have a book about Whiskey and Absinthe somewhere, so this would be a good addition! ;-)
Question - HOW do you count audiobooks with no print book in your page count? Do you just keep separate track of those? I have several that I have not listened to for this very reason; I am not sure how to count it. THIS ish is what happens when you are OCD about your lists. Sigh.
Elyse wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "Just started The Plague, and WOW! What a vivid reminder of what the beginning of the pandemic was like here. It is crazy that this was written in 1947 and absolut..."Absolutely terrifying. Add in the book I just finished for NG [that is about fighting wars in the "name of God"] and its been...daunting.
writer... wrote: "What I loved ?... Stacie wrote: " There really isn't any need to read things you don't want to just
"for the numbers". ."
Agreed.. Thanks Stacie!"
This mindset has helped me walk away from books that I absolutely did not love. Or didn't even like. And it has been so freeing.
Patricia wrote: "Yesterday I read: Exit West
The Life We Bury"
Oh!!! Both of these are huge favorites of mine. I had the privilege of hearing Mohsin Hamid speak at an author event right after reading the book and he was just amazing. He also cleared up some things for me that I was struggling with within the book [it was like he explained something and the whole book just opened up for me and WOW - and seriously, I wish he would narrate meditation tapes; his voice is so soothing].
I got The Life We Bury for Jolabokaflod last year and that book was just so good for me. One of those books that was read at the perfect time. I love when that happens.
Reading Reindeer Emigrates To Pluto wrote: "After reading/reviewing Ergonia, Land of the Giant Ants yesterday, I then read 170 pp. Of Network Effect! SO TOTALLY GOOD! Beginning in September with Space Opera Se..."I am not a science fiction person at all, but this year I read the Binti series and O M GOSH. I loved those. I was so pleasantly surprised.
Just finished The Ardent Swarm: A Novel. SO timely and the last 1/2 hour of the book are not for the faint at heart.
Early this morning I finished Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks. Made progress on Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi. Plan to start and finish Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Nobel Maillard tonight. Started Snakes in the Kitchen by Carolyn Branch early this morning.
Up to page 169 of
. I haven't done much reading the last couple days, but I'm ready to hit the ground running on Friday!
Dawn Michelle wrote: "Question - HOW do you count audiobooks with no print book in your page count? Do you just keep separate track of those? I have several that I have not listened to for this very reason; I am not sure how to count it. THIS ish is what happens when you are OCD about your lists. Sigh."Well I'm not Stacie, but I'll weigh in here. You could use some sample data from audiobooks you DO have page counts for, and come up with an average conversion rate. It's not a perfect solution, but neither is passing up books you want to read! (I get it, I have plenty of my own quirks when it comes to tracking.)
Personally I track minutes for audiobooks and pages for print/ebooks, but I've thought about assigning page values (for more of an apples-to-apples comparison) and this is what I'd do if I had any on my list I couldn't get numbers for.
Reached 69% in
today. It’s a novella, so I should be able to finish this year no problem.
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and I'm not sure what I'll start after that.(Aww... it makes me feel good that something I said is having a positive im..."
Ugh yes, all of the Audible Originals. So annoying.
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yesterday! And with just 1 of those complete, I finished my Goodreads Challenge! Now I need to update my thread. lol.And started 3 more books today. I had
on my list already and it's short, 2 hrs 40 minutes (1 hr 38 min at 1.5x speed-love that Audible shows this now!). So then I put my Audible collection in length order and will listen to a couple more between today's commute and tomorrow's commute and errand-running. And I may put some on during work as well as it's fairly quiet this week. Here are my shortest Audible Originals:
(46 min)
(62 min)
(73 min)
(75 min)I also started
which is less than 200 pages and is my final Christmas Spirit Readathon read.And of course,
which is my final series read of the year and will complete that trilogy. And is a pre-owned book. And a whopping 600 pages! Good fun. :)
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We are buddy reading The Priory of the Orange Tree in the new year if you'd like to join us, Mallory! We're taking it slowly but I know you're a fast reader. The thread is here if you're interested in joining us. The more the merrier! :)
Just reached my 2020 goal of 125 books! Hurray!
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Congrats!
Elyse wrote: " We are buddy reading The Priory of the Orange Tree in the new year if you'd like to join us, Mallory! We're taking it slowly but I know you're a fast reader. The thread is here if you're interested in joining us. The more the merrier! :)"Great idea! Thanks! I might not be so fast with it though. ;) (Fantasy)
Finished Network Effect yesterday, and will be reading the first four in the Series just after first of year, a nice boost to 2021's Mount TBR. :)
Today, need to read for review Tiny Planet Filled With Liars: a Fleet Eternal story.
Congrats on goal, Nancy!
Dawn Michelle wrote: "writer... wrote: "What I loved ?... Stacie wrote: " There really isn't any need to read things you don't want to just
"for the numbers". ."
Agreed.. Thanks Stacie!"
I am doing this too more often. there are just so many books to read it does not make sense to read something that I don't like even if others have found it great.
This mindset has helped me..."
Dawn Michelle wrote: "Patricia wrote: "Yesterday I read: Exit West
The Life We Bury"
Oh!!! Both of these are huge favorites of mine. I had the privilege of hearing Mohsin Hamid speak a..."
Dawn thanks for commenting as I had not known about the Icelandic tradition and I looked it up. I want to adopt this for next year. " Christmas Book Flood"
It was a big reading day yesterday for me ( I was wondering why my step count was so low!)December 29
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Assistants
Austenland
I loved the book The Silver Linings Playbook, it had so many great quotes.
Dawn Michelle wrote: "Question - HOW do you count audiobooks with no print book in your page count? Do you just keep separate track of those? I have several that I have not listened to for this very reason; I am not sure how to count it. THIS ish is what happens when you are OCD about your lists. Sigh...."I simply count pages for print (I will also use the print page count for digital texts, since adjusting font size skews that data too much) and time for audio. There are several methods for approximating page count for an audio only title, but they are all labor intensive and still imprecise so I don't bother converting. (the simplest method is to take a book that you can get in both print and audio, listen to one page at your preferred speed and then use that length of time as a 'page' when listening to other things).
NANCY wrote: "Just reached my 2020 goal of 125 books! Hurray!". YAY! Congratulations!
I finished up
, which was good but it would have been better in print- the professor's enunciation (or lack there of) was irritating to listen to. He also writes to be read, not to be listened to- there is a huge difference between the way you write for a lecture and the way would write for publication. His writing was good enough that I wish his published books weren't at scholarly press prices!I have listened to about an hour and a half of
(which I may wind up finishing in print) and an hour of
Binti: The Complete Trilogy, Lagoon, Children of Blood and Bone, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, are all Mount TBR reads I REALLY NEED TO READ!:)
I'm spending so much time listing January to-reads I couldn't decide on what to read today! So eager for January 1!
I read and reviewed Tiny Planet Filled With Liars: a Fleet Eternal story and I've started Avogadro Corp, first of a Series about [love it!] Evil A.I. I have all but one and Scribd has it. Pretty good so far.
I have a long flight home so I'm hoping to finish an audiobook or two during that time! not sure if I'll get all my planned books done before 2021 though
Finishing off the year with The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans, 12/27; Hannah by Kathryn Lasky, 12/28; The Alehouse Murders by Maureen Ash, 12/29; House Of Green Turf by Ellis Peters, 12/29; andThe Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers by M.D. Lake, 12/30.
Today I started and finished Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story and I also finished the audiobook Agent to the Stars. Will finish Snakes in the Kitchen tonight and will probably take a reading break tomorrow.
I've been reading like crazy this month! Luckily I keep a list of what book I've read on what day because I'm nutty that way. 😁 Plus I'm trying very hard to finish the popsugar challenge! And at the moment I only need to read ONE more book for that! Yeah! So I'll be done by tomorrow! These are the books I've read starting on the 27.
Dec 27:
Dec 28:
Dec 28:
Dec: 29:
Dec 29:
Dec 30:
Dec 30:
So far this month I read 35 books!
I just ordered and picked up lots of books from my local library. I picked up 10 yesterday and I have about 5 more that either just came in today or will be coming in soon. Including a big fat one by Stephen King - the Tommyknockers. That's for a group read. Lots of the books I ordered are horse related ones, as I love horses and plan to read more about them. I also have been reading lots of fantasy and sci-fi lately too. I have two 500+ page fantasy books about dragons that I need to read and return too, so I'll do those at the beginning of January.
I've also been reading lots of series lately, including the Witcher and the one Dragon series by Timothy Zahn.
But my immediate plan is to read the last book for the popsugar challenge, which is
Oops! I just realized I accidentally used the one book twice for the popsugar challenge so I actually have TWO books to read! So I'm going to read this one for the "book that has a book on the cover" 
Finished
with a day to spare. That puts me at 93 for the year, 5 over my final goal (33 over my initial one).I plan to take tomorrow and get ready to start homeschooling again next week, and then start my new reads on the 1st.
Sarah wrote: "Oops! I just realized I accidentally used the one book twice for the popsugar challenge so I actually have TWO books to read! So I'm going to read this one for the "book that has a book on the cove..."You are on fire! With the speed you are reading, I'm sure you'll finish the challenge :)
I listened to about 4 hours of
, so hopefully I will be able to finish that tomorrow and complete my 2020 reading goal. I'm not going to have very much time to read tomorrow, so we'll see.
I finished Written in the Stars!! Not sure if I'll finish anything else this year, but if not I'll just start 2021 by clearing my currently reading shelf!
Read: All By Myself, Alone
Started and abandoned some books. I have 5000 books on my library wishlist and realize I don't need to read all of these. I know I am not a romance reader. So when I began a novel to have the heroine jump into bed with someone she just met I knew that it was not for me. It might be my age who knows.
As I look over the year, I decided that I need to return to reading more classics. Only four were completed this year. And, I hope to read more selections from the reading groups I check each month. Just have to decide what goals to set,
I finished
this morning but am not likely to have time for reading anything else for me today (I'm sure that I'll be reading, it will just be to a toddler- man, when she sees a new book, lights up, and makes a bee-line to you, it's a pretty good feeling) . This completes my 2020 challenge, though, so I'm happy :) I'm planning on reading
tomorrow to kick off the new year
Sarah wrote: "I've been reading like crazy this month! Luckily I keep a list of what book I've read on what day because I'm nutty that way. 😁 Plus I'm trying very hard to finish the popsugar challenge! And at th..."Wow, lots of books Sarah! Nice that you keep a daily list. I keep track of books on an excel and then have to periodically sync with Goodreads.
~Marie
It turns out I couldn't take a one-day break from reading after all. I will finish these books in 2021.Early this morning I started, Treasures. Belva Plain is an old favorite author of mine and this book was written in 1992 but I don't think I"ve read it before. And, this morning i started, The Family Journal. Carolyn Brown is a new favorite author.
yesterday eve and today i've read Avogadro Corp. i love Evil A.I. narratives.:)Itching to leap into New Year's Reading: Persephone Station, The Priory of the Orange Tree, The First Sister
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This year I was all over the place with a 50 state read, a Debbie Macomber challenge, ICanchallenge, the book club reads for a book club that I run on FB and just things I wanted to read. All of that along with this year of all years!!
I'm going to take it easy and do the book club reading and try to match the genres we have set for the year for other books. January is New Release and I already have titles set up for that. I still have books on the GAR list to fit in and will probably work toward my world list, which is going to take me longer than I thought it would. LOL, even that sounds like a lot right now!