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Oct 16, 2023 05:51AM

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What's been your favorite new find so far? For me, it was unquestionably How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1) by Cressida Cowell. It was delightful, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series. I will confess that I read it using the audiobook narrated by David Tennant. It was absolutely lovely having him read to me in his beautiful accent.


BTW: I can also highly recommend his narration of My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher. The story itself is incredibly moving, and he voices the 10-year-old narrator with humor and vulnerability.

3/9
new-to-you authors
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

1. Curious Tides (debut + new-to-me author)
2. The Christmas Appeal (new release)
3. The Future (new release)
4. Bookshops & Bonedust (new release)
5. A Power Unbound (new release)
6. Demigods & Magicians: Percy and Annabeth Meet the Kanes (new-to-me audio narrator)
7. Minor Detail (new-to-me author)

5/9
🔺 new-to-you authors AND 🔺 new-to-you audio narrators
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Where No One Has Gone Before
Duration: October 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
🔺 New-To-You Authors
Goal: 10 ; Progress: 4/10
1. Lies & Lullabies by Sarina Bowen (Completed:10/06/23)
2. The Beast and the Bookseller by Eva Devon (Completed:10/18/23)
3. Recommended for You by Laura Silverman (Completed:10/28/23)
4. Off Sides by Sawyer Bennett (Completed:11/03/23)
5. Fortune Academy: Year One by J.R. Thorn (Completed: )
6. The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker (Completed: )
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🔺 New-To-You Audio Narrators
Goal: 5 ; Progress: 2/5
1. Carmen Rose: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare (Completed:10/13/23)
2. Jen Taylor: Eye of the Beholder by Jayne Ann Krentz (Completed:10/25/23)
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7/9
🔺 new-to-you authors
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery

7/10
new-to-you author as well as new-to-location:
Nathacha Appanah: The Last Brother, set in Mauritius, translated from French

9/9 - DONE
🔺 new-to-you authors
Hallucinations
Even though I will probably read several more books that will fall into 'new authors' category before the end of the quarter, I won't be increasing my goal, it feels good to have something completed.

🗺️ Progress: 35/5 🗺️
(My goal seems kind of ridiculous looking back on it haha - will be raising my goal to 40 as of today.)

8. Bruised (new-to-me author)
9. Midnight's Twins (new-to-me author)
10. Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens (short story collection - lots of new-to-me authors + audio narrators)

10/9 - DONE and going for a bit of extra credit :)
🔺 new-to-you authors
Watership Down
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