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This is perfect since it leads right into Bout of Books starting on the 3rd.I need one more book to meet my goal of 100, and I have two books in progress (one I might finish today!) and another two I plan to read before the year ends. I like to start the new year with a clean slate, so I won't be pushing to add to that number, although if I have time I might try to find something quick and fun.
Next year I'll be doing the Mount TBR challenge for the first time. My goals are 24 books I own and 60 books I don't. I still haven't settled on an overall goal number, but I'm leaning towards 85.
I have a handful of titles in mind to read early next year, but nothing specific as the first book.
Yay! An End of the Year Readathon! I am in.I have met and exceeded my GR goal. I think it was originally 250, and I bumped it up to 290 books. Am currently at about 305. My big goal that I met was finishing all the books that I put on the list in 2017.
For 2022, I think I am going to try to read 250 books. Am also going to try to get all the books off the list that I added in 2018. Only 14, so if I stay focused...
For my first read of the year, I don't consciously pick a book, but in the back of my mind, I am already planning out my 75 Books...More or Less! ABC Book/Author Challenge. I like to get it done as soon as I can.
I passed my 2021 goal. Going to set it a little lower for 2022, probably 250.I'll be doing Mount TBR and Virtual Mount TBR for 3rd year each. Continuing challenges here and some in Hooked on Books (monthly, weeklong, weekend, 24), and Seasons of Reading Readathons, plus monthly themes at Devour Your TBR and Genreland; but not planning to do many challenges beyond these: going with an "organic" approach, what catches my eye at a given moment. For 2021 I did choose "First Read": Persephone Station. For 2022 I'm thinking Moon Lake and something Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Readathon Proposed TBR:
Moon Lake
Wakers
Maiden
Moon of the Crusted Snow
Termination Shock
Christmas titles/settings for Christmas Spirit Readathon ending January 6
12/24:
Reading: I Am Not Who You Think I Am NG ARC
December Park Scribd VIRTUAL. From p
540. [Put it aside to read/review [book:The House of Tongues|59354539] NG ARC]
My Homework Ate My Dog
Merry Christmas from the End: A Night Portals Short Story
12/25: Reading Shadow Flicker NG ARC (so good) to 36%
I Am Not Who You Think I Am NG ARC to 3%. Weird.
12/26:
12/27:
(Including The Lake Has Eyes
The Dark Shadow
The Lady Of The Lake
12/28:
Scribd Virtual (I've 5 Christmas Horror by R.L
Stine I intend to read before Saturday, which will give me 76 for Virtual TBR 2021).
I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug!
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!
Fright Christmas
12/29:
The Christmas Room: Tales of Festive Terror
Silent Night
12/30:
Apricus: A Perplexing Story
Silent Night
Silent Night 2
12/31:
1/01: Reading Sundial Mount TBR and
The Kaiju Preservation Society Mount TBR
1/02: The Kaiju Preservation Society to 62%
Titles Read:
The House on 6th Street: A Short Story
My Homework Ate My Dog
Merry Christmas from the End: A Night Portals Short Story
Shadow Flicker
The Red Scowl
The Haunting of Bridge Manor: The Trilogy. Own.
(Including The Lake Has Eyes
The Dark Shadow
The Lady Of The Lake
Young Scrooge: A Very Scary Christmas Story
The Rhinoceros Rhapsody
book:I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug!|48855944]
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!
Fright Christmas
The Kindred
The Christmas Room: Tales of Festive Terror
Apricus: A Perplexing Story
Silent Night
Silent Night 2
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Finish Throne of Glass
Finish Well Met
Finish The Kiss Quotient
Finish Light the Abyss
(audio)Easy peasy for 9 days right? lol. Oh yeah and
Read
!!!
I’ve got one book I’m still reading, which I need to finish before the end of the year. I always set my GR challenge low so I know I can hit it, but this year set it at only 30 instead of my usual 40 because of my goal to focus on some big books this year. I’m glad I did, because I didn’t feel as much pressure to read those quickly, but im ready for shorter books and digging into some series again next year.I’ve been wanting to do the ABC Challenge again next year, but also I don’t like having to dive for books to fit each letter like I did last time a few years ago. I want to do challenges that motivate me to get books OFF my tbr, not scrambling for something new that fits a letter. I finally worked out a compromise.
To that end, my main reading challenge for 2022 will be the RYO-ABC Challenge. It goes like this: The goal is to do the ABC challenge, but for every letter I don’t have something I want that fits it, I will read TWO books on my tbr from before 2020. Takes the stress out of it, and I feel good about getting stuff off my tbr. This will involve some shuffling around as what I read changes, but I don’t actually care.
I still have three books I need to read before April for the Magical Readathon, those being
,
, and
. The last two I’m doing as buddy reads here on the group, and if I get roughly one done per the first three months, I should be happy with that. I don’t pick as much of my tbr as I used to. With everything I read for either research or TFIL, I don’t have the time for more.
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My goal for 2022 is going to be 100 books and then I will reevaluate as needed. I really want to do better with self care and work life balance this year.
I’m excited to spend another year reading with all of you and spending time together chatting about books.
Starting the readathon at 5:33 (48%) in A Princess in Theory. I also plan to reread A Christmas Carol over the next couple days, and I have The Party Crasher to (probably) finish out the year.
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So I sat down and did some serious reading in
. At LONG LAST I have finished Part 5, aka the longest part ever. That twist tho. O.o
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which I'm buddy reading in another group. I did listen to a bit of
while cleaning. Hoping to finish it today so I can start listening to
for #ChunksterReadathon on Instagram. Also need to read
for the same readathon.
Christmas weekend update:
read 48 pages (finished)This is my 3rd re-read. Started Christmas Eve and finished Christmas morning.
read 37 pages (finished)This is our Christmas Eve bedtime story tradition. The 6yo knows the story very well by now and looks forward to it. The 2yo was more attentive than last year, but still pretty squirmy. She doesn't quite have the patience for longer picture books with more than one sentence per page.
listened 83 min (61%)I hope everyone who celebrates had a great holiday!
Read a few more chapters of Imaginary Friend yesterday. Planning to get some reading and writing done after work today.
I listened to
(sadly, not very impressed- even with one of my favorite author/narrators reading a copy abridged by Dickens himself... it was still abridged. Bleh.) and read
over FaceTime to my great-niece on the 24th, and 11 hours of
between yesterday and today.
Just finished part 6 of Imaginary Friend. All that’s left is part 7!
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and I got to page 211 of
yesterday. I also read
.I did finish listening to
but I decided to not start The Wheel of Time this year (and I'm already reading Empire of Storms for #ChunksterReadathon) and focus on a couple of past due NetGalley audiobooks this week. Starting with
.
Something about the latter half of 2021 really left me in a funk with reading. I was NOT reading at the pace and more importantly, the joy that reading gives/gave me. I am not going to reach my goal of 75 books which felt like such a weight around my neck every time I would log into Goodreads and the counter was telling me I was x many books behind my goal. Finally, at some point in October, I stopped caring. I was going to read if I wanted to read. If I was actually enjoying reading. I found that sense of love and enjoyment back in November. I am not exactly happy that I will not make this arbitrary goal I set for myself but I will not be beating myself up. I am hoping to finish reading 60 books. I am very happy with that. With that being said and getting THAT off of my chest, here are the books I hope to finish by years end:The Meaning of Mariah Carey (currently listening to the audio book)
Dead Letters (currently reading)
Night & The Wife are two shorter stories I hope to finish while I am on PTO.
In the midst of moving so i'll see what results .. thanks for hosting and happy seasons greetings!
I just finished Imaginary Friend! I did it! My shelf is cleared!
Shelby wrote: "I just finished Imaginary Friend! I did it! My shelf is cleared!"WOOHOO!!! Congratulations!!!
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and I got to page 237 of
yesterday. I also read
. I listened to 25% of
.
I only got about an hour of
yesterday. My whole "ending strong" part of this readathon is not going as well as I'd intended when I started, LOL.
Monday/Tuesday:
listened ~2.5 hrs (84%)
read 254 pages (73%)
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. I finished reading
yesterday and finished listening to
. I started listening to
and it will be my last audiobook of 2021. I need to read
by 11:59pm Dec 31. That's only 1644 pages, totes doable. ;)
I have read several books I didn't expect to read during this period:1. Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White, 12/27/2021
2. Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley, 12/29/2021
3. Ran Away by Barbara Hambly, 12/29/2021
4. All the Trouble You Need by Jervey Tervalon, 12/30/2021
5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, 12/30/2021
6. Treacherous Is the Night by Anna Lee Huber, 1/1/2022
7. A Pretty Deceit by Anna Lee Huber, 1/2/2022
Wed/Thu/Fri:
listened ~2 hrs (finished)
read 95 pages (finished)
read 101 pages (finished)And, as I don't plan to do any more reading in the next 11 hours, thus ends 2021!
End strong ✔️
Start strong ❓
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and listening to
. I'm done. Today was a lot busier than intended so no, I did not read the 1644 pages I wanted to in order to finish the Throne of Glass series. lol. I'm okay with that. Gonna relax the rest of the night!Happy New Year everyone! Please stay safe in all the ways!
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Happy New Year! May your joys be many and your sorrows few, and may you always have something good at hand to read :)
I finished
last night before bed (which was well before midnight, because dang last week was long). I haven't decided what's up next, but I get two full days that have suddenly become obligation free and the possibilities feel endless :) Not a bad way to start out a year.
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Katie {awonderfulbook} wrote: "Happy new year everyone! One of the most exciting things as a reader is discovering which books will define my reading year each year. Hopefully 2022 is full of amazing books for all of us!"This is one of my favourite things every year!
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.I have a minor surgery tomorrow (yes on a Sunday) so will probably not be reading much due to the anesthesia. So that's a huge bummer.
I should probably update my 2021 thread and create my 2022 threads. lol.
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Started my first read of the year,
, and I just reached chapter 6. I have high hopes for this one. Hoping to get a lot of reading done tomorrow.
Final update:
read 163 pages (37%)
listened ~2.5 hrs (35%)Happy New Year!
Started reading
today and just reached 34%.
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so I'm happy about that seeing as how I wasn't really awake enough to read yesterday. lol. I am enjoying the reread!Overall I finished reading
. I listened to
I started reading
.
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How many books do you have left to meet your GR goal (if you haven't already met it)?
Have you modified it at all this year?
What's your goal for 2022?
Any other personal reading goals besides the GR Challenge?
Do you consciously pick a book for your first read of the new year or is it whatever comes up next in your TBR?