(2020) Wrap up!

[Liz]

We're just two days out from a new challenge, so let's take a minute to look back on our 2020 reading challenge! Share your reading year in review!

1.) How many books did you read?
2.) What was your favourite read?
3.) What was your least favourite read?
4.) Did you reach your challenge goals?

[Lindsey]

1.) How many books did you read?
197 right now, on track for 200 by the end of tomorrow

2.) What was your favourite read? - these I gave 5/5
Key of Light
The Stone of Sorrow
The Queen of the Tearling
Chain of Gold
Today Tonight Tomorrow
The Lady Alchemist
Storm of Locusts
The Queen of Nothing
The Winter Companion
The Enforcer Enigma
Meat Cute: The Hedgehog Incident
Poison or Protect
The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One
The Adventurous Eaters Club: Mastering the Art of Family Mealtime
Loki: Where Mischief Lies
Binky the Space Cat

3.) What was your least favourite read? - these I gave 1/5 or 2/5
Along Came a Soldier
My Summer of Love and Misfortune
Awakened
Burned
Destined
Brightly Woven
Smoke and Ritual
Ancient Dreams
The Water Dancer
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey to the Heart of Africa
The Catcher in the Rye
A Song Below Water

4.) Did you reach your challenge goals?
Yes! 52 novels and 52 picture books for this challenge, I read a book starting with every letter of the alphabet, and I'm almost at my Goodreads goal.

[Diana]

1. 19 books total
2. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
3. What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
4. No, I was 7 short.

[︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ Steph ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿]

1.) How many books did you read? 89

2.) What was your favourite read? These were my five stars:
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
King Leopold's Ghost
The Complete Persepolis
The Martian
Ready Player One
The Woman Warrior
The Phantom Tollbooth
Into the Wild
The Exorcist
Hell House
America Is Not the Heart
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Bud, Not Buddy
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Stitches
Nimona
Wonder

3.) What was your least favourite read?
Balcony of Fog
Their Shade
The Face on the Milk Carton

4.) Did you reach your challenge goals? I did! I kept increasing it as the year wore on, but stopped after I reached 60. Some were short stories, but I still count them.

[Alida]

Steph wrote: "1.) How many books did you read? 89

2.) What was your favourite read? These were my five stars:
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
[book:The Five People You Meet ..."

American Royals was my favorite this year

[Carol]

1) I read 113 books in 2020.
2) My favorite book was Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. I read it along with Oprah’s Book Club. There were so many draw-dropping examples of the role of caste in the United States, Germany during the Third Reich and India.
3)My least favorite was Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous.
4) My goal for 2020 was to complete the 52 Book Challenge and Modern Mrs. Darcy Challenge for a total of 64 books, which I accomplished. Of those, My goal was for 24 to be owned before 2020. I have a similar goals for 2021.

[Marina]

I read 61 books.

My 5 star reads were:
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

My least favourite novel was:
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

I exceeded my target which was 52 books.

[Carol]

Just read my post. Note to myself-don’r post at 1 AM. The last sentence should be: I have the same goals for 2021, but I also signed up for the Mrs. Darcy Book Club (online).

[︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ Steph ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿]

Alida wrote: "American Royals was my favorite this year"

I'll have to check that one out!