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End Strong, Start Strong End of the Year Readathon - Dec 23, 2022-Jan 9, 2023
I finished my 2022 GR goal at the end of November but I still have a couple of books to finish to complete one of my other challenges, so that's my goal for this Readathon. I'm not going to get crazy ambitious because the week between Christmas and New Year's is always, um, "well attended" at work (i.e. busy as hell and twice as hectic, lol!), but I am going to use this readathon to literally schedule some 'me time' into the madness :)
I hit my number of books for the year, but not pages. I'd have to read 275 pages a day to hit my goal, which is technically possible but not at all likely (and my audio goal is even more out of reach, like 5 hours a day). I haven't thought ahead to next year yet.And I hear you on the "me time." This readathon is the exact days of the kids' winter break and my husband's shutdown. So, plus side, I don't have any days where it's just me and the kids. Downside, no time to myself unless I schedule it in.
I've long finished my goal, but '23 will be Year #2 of selecting "First Read" ahead of time, and I chose Children of Memory (NetGalley ARC), so I need to first reread Children of Time and Children of Ruin, which are utterly fascinating, but lengthy and convoluted. TBR:
Children of Time Reread
Children of Ruin Reread
Yuletide Spirit books.
Jan. 1-2 TBR:
Children of Memory 2023 First Read
Queen of Teeth 2023 LOH First Read
Churn the Soil 2023 First Read Horror (not by Ladies of Horror)
Dec. 23:
Dec. 24: The Christmas Killer to p. 80
Dec. 25: The Christmas Killer
Find Her to p. 53
Dec. 26:
Dec. 27:
Dec. 28:
The Lingering to 58%
Dec. 29:
It Looks Like Us
Dec. 30:
Dec. 31: Vostok to 4%
Jan. 1: Children of Memory #First23
Jan. 2: Children of Memory
Queen of Teeth
Jan. 3:
Queen of Teeth
Children of Memory
Quantum of Nightmares
Jan. 4: Quantum of Nightmares
Jan. 5:
Jan. 6:
Jan. 7:
The Labyrinth Index
Jan. 8: The Labyrinth Index to 58%
Jan. 9:
The Thing in the Snow
I finished my initial yearly challenge of reading 40 books, but in November I binged a whole bunch, so I decided to update to 75 this year for a change to match the group because I was practically there already. I’ve got 2 left and I win. This week I need to finish my reread of
(I reread the original trilogy last year and planned to reread this one this year but kept forgetting it! 🤦♀️ Still getting it in just under the wire!) and next week I’m finishing with
.I’ve picked my first book of next year, as usual, and for 2023 I’m starting with
. I’ll be picking up
soon after.
Yahoo! Another readathon!I am very pleased with this year's goals. Have been reading like a madwoman and surpassed my 2022 reading goal. I started out with a conservative number and bumped it up a few times.
Am going to have a goal of 295 books for 2023.
Have never really thought of a 1st book of the year, book. I try to read the older books that are on my Want to Read bookshelfs. Based on that, I would say my first book is going to be The Feast of Artemis (The Greek Detective, #7) by Anne Zouroudi. (Oh! That would be good for the ABC Challenge.)
Hope I can keep it up for 2023... Let the reading begin!
I have six books left to read to finish my goal of 75 books. I have the entirety of next week off so I am certain I can finish. 5 of the 6 are library books and they are new books so my time with them is limited! When it comes to choosing my first book for 2023, it's honestly going to be something from the pile of books I need to read. I'll think about it more once I finish this years challenge!
Starting line:
pp90 (24%)
3:27 (63%)I want to finish both of these, and then I have a few more titles in mind I'd like to get through before year end, but tbh I might only have one more in me.
My first read of the new year will be The Lost Metal, as long as the wait list timing works out how I think it will.
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. I had 25% left. And now I'm listening to
! I'm on page 42 of
and I want to finish it today. Getting out of work at 2 and just planning on reading!
Didn’t feel like reading yesterday, but I still managed to read 3 chapters of Darkwing.
Finished all of my reading goals for the year. What I like best about the end of a year is that I am no longer working on reading challenges so I pick and choose whatever I like as I finish the year. Sometimes it's a long book I want to read but this year I am choosing several shorter ones as I go. I will read a historical fiction book as my first book of 2023 as the HF challenge is one I will continue on Paperback Swap. I have begun assembling my list for that challenge. Here I will sign up for the same areas I did this past year because I enjoyed the choices I made.
For the year end's challenge:
Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn, 12/23/2022
The Garden Angel by Mindy Friddle, 12/25/2022
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware, 12/27/2022
The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber, 12/30/2022
A Plunder of Souls by D.B. Jackson, 12/31/2022
Beginning the year:
The Laws of Murder by Charles Finch, 1/3/2023
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin, 1/4/2023
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, 1/6/2023
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James, 1/8/2023
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende, 1/9/2023
I listened to
(which, sadly, was disappointing. Stewart was amazing but the actual abridgement was pretty clunky) and then listened to about an hour of
Read: Reading The Christmas Killer to p. 80
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. Now tomorrow I just have to make a ton of jalapeno poppers and mini pepper poppers. I will definitely finish Mixed Signals!
Spent today watching Glass Onion instead of reading. No regrets. Hoping to get some reading done tomorrow after a short shift and also need to wrap presents.
Elyse wrote: "End Strong, Start Strong End of the Year Readathon from December 23, 2022 to January 9, 2023!How many books . . .left to meet your GR goal ..." Well past, reading now for fun of seasonal reads!
I’ll get over to add my cont’d file for 2023!
Plans suddenly changed- and I really don't like it when that happens- so not as much reading as I'd expected... but I did finish
(which was very good) and listened to the traditional
while wrapping up the last of the presents.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!Christmas Eve: books and football
Christmas: 3 of us received books (for me, 2 by a local Dystopian author!) and a cheery football game, including snowflakes in Miami).
Reading: The Christmas Killer
Find Her either of which will complete a Readathon elsewhere. Find Her is very delightfully edgy! #Christmas #Snow #Winter
Merry Christmas! Not a lot of time spent reading today; eating was the activity of choice, lol! But I did read 35 pages of
and listened to half an hour of
Family day of food and book gift giving! Back to reading Monday ;))
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I finished reading and listening to
and started reading and listening to
. I'm almost halfway through reading
. My fingers are itching to start a bunch of new books but I need to reel myself in and finish these two first! lol.I have today off and full days of work the rest of the week. Friday is my last day at this job, eep! And my nephew will be sleeping over Fri-Sat.
First weekend:Friday:
53 minutesSaturday:
69 minutes (finished)
annual read-aloud to our kiddosSunday:
45 pagesElyse, I hope leaving this job is an exciting transition?
Dec. 26: Happy Boxing Day!Reading the delightfully edgy Find Her which will finish up the Magicathon Readathon!
Dec. 27:
Snowman I really, really like this one! Very apropos in terms of the Winter Arctic storm through Christmas!
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That is the hope! lol. And transition is a good word for it. I need a break, some downtime, to focus on what I want to do and where I want to go. I've been at this company for 10 years and in the past couple, they've been draining me, exhausting me, stressing me, and it's leaving me unable to focus on my personal life. So I'm hoping a break from work, period, will help. If not, a new job somewhere closer to home will be on the horizon.
I finished my GR reading goal around November, so I don't have to bee so aggressive. Glad to have this year end readathon. One of my secondary goals is to get my To Be Read folder down below 300. I am sooo-o-o close!
Happily, Finished off another Smashwords year end book offer from Leenie Brown’s Austenesque collection !Great to be closing in to this year’s end and making new year reading goals…
Elyse wrote: "Charleen wrote: "Elyse, I hope leaving this job is an exciting transition?..."That is the hope! lol. And transition is a good word for it. I need a break, some downtime, to focus on what I want t..."
Hoping the same right along with you, Elyse :) !
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Thank you!
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last night and started listening to
this morning. I also started reading
. 120-ish pages left of
and I'm really hoping to finish it tonight. It's more political than I thought it would be, kind of draggy.
Also best of luck Elyse! I’m in the midst of a big job change myself.
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Thank you! Good luck to you!
Listened to one hour of
and two hours of
(which I wasn't expecting to start, but I couldn't resist when it came across my suggestions).
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yesterday and started reading/listening to
. I finished
last night. 15% through
.
Up now..
and
Loving audios …
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yesterday and have already listened to
. Now I'm listening to
. 30% through
. I'll probably start reading
tonight.
It’s going to be a race to the finish. Finished two library books (Reader, I Murdered Him and also Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions) but will have to switch gears and read some shorter stories I have. I think Night by Eli’s Wiesel is next on the list.
Hoopla, very recommended!
It Looks Like Us
On to
Children of Ruin, so I can be ready to commence Children of Memory ARC on 1 January.
I read 45 pages of
. Not as much as I wanted to get done today, but the dog is curled up and snoring on my lap and my book is waaay over on the other side of the room :D
Wednesday:
54 pagesThursday:
83 pages (finished)
Shelby wrote: "Just finished my final read of 2022!"Good on you!
Don't think I'm going to get to Children of Ruin before Sunday; Guess I'll read Children of Memory for #FirstRead23, then back up to Children of Ruin sometime in January, would like to reread Children of Time too.
Started last night It Looks Like Us, set in Glorious Antarctica. If you've enjoyed John Carpenter's The Thing and/or read the original story, John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?", you'll readily identify the trope: shapeshifters on the Last Continent. Only instead of a team of dedicated, single-minded, scientists plus military and/or corporate security, this is a small experimental group of high-schoolers on Winter Break, performing (untrained) unscientific sampling of ice cores, at the behest of a Billionaire tech baron very closely resembling a certain real-life example. [Extremely closely resembling, which makes for frequent chuckles and head-shaking.] The author is really good at exemplifying the young folks' characters, especially protagonist Riley. You just know "it'll all go tremendously wrong!," but still you can't help cheering these youngsters on. Quite subtly terrifying, actually, rendered more so because Riley's diagnosed anxiety disorder panic attacks can create hallucinations: are these events real, or aggravating brain glitches?
Now to find one more book to finish '22. 3 Bowl games today, so that'll interrupt reading. Hope to read late into the night; tomorrow will start 2023 reads.
I read 35 pages of
(If Game Cora had been more like Book Cora I probably wouldn't have hated the character!), then completed
.
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75 Books...More or Less!
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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 2023?
Do you consciously pick a book for your first read of the new year or is it whatever comes up next in your TBR?
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