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Jan 01, 2016 08:48AM
Set my goal in 2015 for 25 originally, and increased it to 33 by year's end. So this going for a slight increase to 35.
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Great job at smashing last year's goal and increasing for 2016!
Megan wrote: "Great job at smashing last year's goal and increasing for 2016!"Thanks. I'm would love to get 52 in this year, but I'm setting a realistic goal. If it goes well, I'll increase.
Good luck on yours!
My first comment in this group. You really want me to do this?
Sheryl wrote: "Megan wrote: "Great job at smashing last year's goal and increasing for 2016!"Thanks. I'm would love to get 52 in this year, but I'm setting a realistic goal. If it goes well, I'll increase.
Go..."
Thanks!
So, don't know what I was thinking when I posted this as 35 since I set my goal on the official 2016 Book Challenge tracker as 40. SO, 40 it is. Made good headway this month, so far. 5/40
#1
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters Completed on Friday, 01 January 2016 #2
Rose of Sarajevo by Ayşe Kulin Completed Wed., 06 January 2016 #3
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett Completed Sat. 09 January 2016 #4
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman Completed Sunday 17 January 2016 #5
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Completed Thursday 21 January 2016
Completed books 10 & 11
The Color Purple by Alice Walker completed 19 Feb 2016 and
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern completed 24 Feb 2016
JuliaOrlando wrote: "I loved the Color Purple, wasn't a huge fan of the film though."I've read the book four or five times - reread it this time for another book group discussion.
I love the book. The movie has its value, but the downplay of Celie's sexuality is disappointing. I'd love to see it remade today.
book number twelve - which puts me five ahead of schedule. :-) 
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Good luck, Sheryl! It looks like you're off to a great start. :)
books 13, 14, and 15 ! 
Pale Queen Rising by A.R. Kahler Completed 16 March 2016 
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Completed 17 March 2016 
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Completed Wednesday 06 April 2016
Sheryl wrote: "Set my goal in 2015 for 25 originally, and increased it to 33 by year's end. So this going for a slight increase to 35."Nice goal!!!
Heidi wrote: "Sheryl wrote: "Set my goal in 2015 for 25 originally, and increased it to 33 by year's end. So this going for a slight increase to 35."Nice goal!!!"
LOL well, a bit later I realized that I set my official goal to 40 so I upped it. So far so good as I am ahead of schedule. :-)
Book 16 finished (and a long one at that...) 
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Completed Friday, 29 April 2016
Okay - updating. Now at 19/40 so - I forgot to include a book I finished earlier in the year - as it was work related (I facilitated a professional book club using the text) LOL it was actually the 7th book, but we'll call it 17 :-)
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice by Geneva Gaycompleted 28 January 2016
#18
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Completed 07 May 2016
#19
Ash by Malinda LoCompleted 11 May 2016
at 21 of 40 - more than half-way. Ahead of schedule and thinking about raising my goal. #20
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann completed by Wed., 11 May 2016#21
Cinder by Marissa Meyer completed Wed., 18 May 2016
Oops! Where did my summer go? 26/40
#23
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida Completed 25 May 2016 #24
by Robert CarlsonCompleted 12 July 2016
#25
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie OtsukaCompleted 07 August 2016
#26
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente Completed 07 September 2016
Summer for me has been hectic - I've several books going, but haven't' completed many. Time for a plan.
31/40 Completed 4 books during the Dewey 24hr readathon and prior to the readathon - one 'short tale' (which according to here counts as a book, even if I wouldn't have... LOL)
#27
The Princess and the Pea: A Very Short Tale by Diane Setterfield completed 16 October 2016#28
And Again by Jessica Chiarella completed 22 October 2016#29
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez completed 22 October 2016#30
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood completed 23 October 2016 #31
Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz completed 23 October 2016
Almost there! Did you like Blindness?
Winter wrote: "Almost there! Did you like Blindness?"Loved Blindness. Although I got used to the incredibly long paragraphs and few breaks, I listened to the audio version more than read the text. I found that less tiring. Great novel though.
tick-tock, tick-tock... scrambling to get them all in...35/40
#35
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo completed Wed 7 Dec 2016
37/40#37
The Road by Cormac McCarthy completed Wed 14 Dec 20163 more to squeeze in during the next 16 days
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