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Carol's 2024 Determination Plus Challenge
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Carol, I'm glad you are joining us again on the 2024 Determination Challenge.
Of course, DJ! I look forward to this!
Started pre-populating my list from the 2023 list of what I targeted and never got to. Next up: figuring out the oldest TBR on the shelf, that's always fun!
Carol: looks like some good ones to target . The oldest is always the hardest! Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Started pre-populating my list from the 2023 list of what I targeted and never got to. Next up: figuring out the oldest TBR on the shelf, that's always fun!"
I'll probably end up using the book I thought I was going to read this year for the oldest on the shelf and the other one that is harder I think is a book before I was born but I got one in mind for that too. Might start with those to get out of way not sure.
Just did some tweaking, deleting some TBRs and adding others. I was perusing one of my other TBR lists and saw a recommendation from Ann that was perfect for the "recommended by someone" category so I just requested it from the library. Thanks, Ann!
Carol: oh yes! Sleepless City is a good one! Hope you enjoy it!Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Just did some tweaking, deleting some TBRs and adding others. I was perusing one of my other TBR lists and saw a recommendation from Ann that was perfect for the "recommended by someone" category s..."
Nice Carol! and a bonus that you enjoyed the book (DONE: Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood. Maureen Ryan.)Carol/Bonadie wrote: "One down, 23 to go!"
Finished #13. Thanks Ann, I loved the book you recommended. I only discovered at the end that it was the first in a series and only published last year. Throughout I was thinking "definitely going to reserve the next one!" Oh well. Any news on whether there WILL be a next one?
Carol: I am very glad you liked Sleepless City. I hope there is another! Reed Farrel Coleman. Perhaps this will lead one of us to sample another of his many series books.Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Finished #13. Thanks Ann, I loved the book you recommended. I only discovered at the end that it was the first in a series and only published last year. Throughout I was thinking "definitely going ..."
Okay! Added three finished to my list! (Is it cheating to add something that was a Group Read? I'm going to say no!)Book set in several countries: The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen. That's the Group Read.
Book I meant to finish last year: I Never Thought of It That Way by Monica Guzmån.
Book set in a country other than the one I live in: The Hunter by Tana French. (Ireland) Oops, that's another Group Read, lol!
Anyway, chipping away at the list!
Good for you Carol! definitely not cheating! :)I may have to "cheat" and use those two group reads too. LOL
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Okay! Added three finished to my list! (Is it cheating to add something that was a Group Read? I'm going to say no!)
Book set in several countries: The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen..."
Right? They were kind of obvious. I'm sure I'll read another book that takes place in another country this year, but I don't know about one that takes place in several!!Ann wrote: "Good for you Carol! definitely not cheating! :)
I may have to "cheat" and use those two group reads too. LOL
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Okay! Added three finished to my list! (Is it cheating to add som..."
That’s great. Not cheating. Prompts make them work for you.
Hooray, I'm cooking with gas!!! Just finished Rain Fall by Eisler, Barry 05 June 2003 which I moved from the top 10 to a book I started in the past and finally finished. I picked it up back when our dear departed Cheryl was raving about Barry Eisler but just started reading it last year. Don't know if I'll read any more but I'm glad I read itI also added our new group read to the "author I haven't read before" category. Nothing wrong with killing two birds with one stone!
Carol: I've started it a couple of times and haven't yet finished Rain Fall by Eisler, Barry 05 June 2003 . It may not help that the audible audio I got years ago was redone later by the author because he didn't like how the first audio version turned out. Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Hooray, I'm cooking with gas!!! Just finished Rain Fall by Eisler, Barry 05 June 2003 which I moved from the top 10 to a book I started in the past and finally finished. I picked ..."
One more down! Finally read No Plan B, one of two to go in the Reacher series. Of to reserve the next one although I'll wait a couple of books before reading it.
Two more logged! Where the Guilty Hide, recommended by Gail, a NTM author, and The Secret, the second Jack Reacher to bring me up to date with the series (I think).
Carol - good progress! I need to update my determination list with the Dashofy!Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Two more logged! Where the Guilty Hide, recommended by Gail, a NTM author, and The Secret, the second Jack Reacher to bring me up to date with the series (I think)."
I looked over my list for the heck of it, not expecting to be able to post anything, and realized I am currently reading the book I expected to list in the "coming out in 2024" category, A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson.
3 books from the lower half and all 10 in the top half are yet to be done. I'll have to focus if I am to finish my DL!Completed A Talent for Murder as the book published this year and have started The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey, published before I was born.
One of the things I don't like about early publications is that the printing is often in small typeface. That kept me from finishing a book in this category last year. This one is interesting, police procedural, but in addition to the small font it also goes on for paragraphs with no dialog. I didn't realize how much I relied on dialogue to keep me interested and able to easily read the page.
I also realize that I could knock off the multiple authors category by reading one of the Reacher books written by Andrew and Lee Child. I think I must have one coming up in order.
Carol, the Child brothers writing Reacher is a good idea. Usually by this time of the year I have read an anthology or two but none yet this year. PJ Tracy was reliable before the Mom half of that duo passed away. I’ll consider for my “more than one author” entry. Good luck on your list.
Finished the book published before I was born, finally! It was slow going because the print was small and there were pages and pages of uninterrupted paragraphs without dialogue to break things up, but I enjoyed it. (The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey).Not sure where I'll head next!
Carol: small print is a showstopper for me; I then seek an audio. Good progress, hope your next entry leads to a good book!Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Finished the book published before I was born, finally! It was slow going because the print was small and there were pages and pages of uninterrupted paragrphs without dialogue to break things up, ..."
Ann wrote: "Carol: small print is a showstopper for me; I then seek an audio. Good progress, hope your next entry leads to a good book!Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Finished the book published before I was born, fin..."
I just checked when I read this - 2014. My eyes were definitely a lot younger then!
Finally dipped into my first 10 by knocking off one of my owned books The Sandman by Lars Kepler. #4 in the fabulous Joona Linna series which takes place in Sweden.
That is great Carol that is one of the harder ones. I already think I know what my 2025 book will be for before I was born but not completely sure yet it might be from the upcoming library book club for next year if it doesn't change it's a classic.I find too with small print it's harder for me to get though. Yet I find sometimes Large print library books take me longer and who knows why that happens.
Thanks, DJ. Already looking forward to 2025 DLs!
I've been thinking about them too. LOL.
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✔️1. DONE: The Sandman by Lars Kepler.
2. TBR: The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
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The next 14 books is the "Plus" part of the challenge. Hope you enjoy and are able to find some great books that will fit in.
✔️11. A book set in a different country than you live in.
DONE The Hunter by Tana French. Set in Ireland.
✔️12. Read a book by an Author that you never read before or one by a new debut author.
DONE Where the Guilty Hide by Annette Dashofy Recommended by Gail. Loved it!
✔️13. A book that someone recommended to you.
DONE Sleepless City by Reed Farrell Coleman. Recommended by Ann! Loved it!
✔️14. A book that is a different genre than your normal type of read. (could be out of your comfort zone).
DONE: Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood. Maureen Ryan.
✔️15 & 16. Two books from a series you haven't completed yet. (Everyone has that one or two books to still read to catch up in a series)
✔️ No Plan B by Lee Child (Jack Reacher)
✔️ The Secret by Lee Child (Jack Reacher)
✔️17. A book that comes out in 2024.
DONE: A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson.
✔️18. A book that you meant to read in 2023 but never got around to it.
DONE: I Never Thought of It That Way. Monica Guzman
✔️19. A book that came out before you were born. (this one might be harder to do but we know you can handle it)
DONE: The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey.
20. A book that is done by more than one author (it can be a book of short stories by different authors, or one book that is one story with more than 1 author like Patterson or Evanovich and I'm sure there are others.
TBR: Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation by John Freeman
21. A book that won an award.
22. One of the oldest to be read books on your unread mountain.
✔️23. A book set in multiple countries.
DONE: The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen. Set in the US, the UK, Bangkok, Istanbul, France and Malta.
✔️24. Book you started in the past but put aside and never finished for some reason.
DONE: Rain Fall by Barry Eisler I had it up in 1-10 but it's more fitting here, I've been trying to finish it for years and finally did.