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Nice goals. I haven't even started thinking about 2017. I should get on that....
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Aww man reading The Casual Vacancy was one of my big 2016 goals and yet December is rapidly approaching and I've not even picked it up once ... hopefully you have more luckAnyway, I think starting on 2017 goals is a good idea I need to as well
jamieson wrote: "Aww man reading The Casual Vacancy was one of my big 2016 goals and yet December is rapidly approaching and I've not even picked it up once ... hopefully you have more luckAnyway, I think startin..."
I've had the same problem with Relic this year! Gonna try and squeeze it in as soon as I finish Assassin's Creed :)
January11 books read
8 owned
1 nonfic
1 histfic
Thanks guys :) I have a feeling February won't do half as well because I'm so busy... and I'm irritated because I seem to have misplaced my copy of Relic :-/
February8 books read
2 owned
2 rereads
March12 books read
1 owned
1 reread
1 histfic
1 nonfic
It's been a good month! Not much progress in the way of my goals here, but my general TBR and GR challenges are on track which feels good.
update: snuck in another Death Note book bc I'm trash :D
Great job! What did you think of
I own it too but haven't made it passed the first chapter
Ashley wrote: "Great job! What did you think of
I own it too but haven't made it passed the first chapter"
Thanks! I really enjoyed Heartless!
April14 books read
2 nonfic
Nothing owned in April but I'm hoping to fix that with a good-sized stack for May.
May9 books read
5 owned
2 histfic
3 nonfic
Great job Ashley! I can't wait to read The Pearl Thief :)
Ahhhh I loved it! Very different from Code Name Verity but it was excellent :)
June6 books read
1 histfic
2 owned
Sigh. But it's coming along.
Ashley *Hufflepuff Kitten* wrote: "June6 books read
[bookcover..."Did you enjoy those books Ashley? I really liked The Girl from Everywhere and Stalking Jack the Ripper.
I loved five of the six -- Handmaid's Tale kind of fizzled around the halfway mark or so, maybe partially due to the fact that it took me 3 months to read it.American Street was fantastic, I'm dying for the Stalking Jack the Ripper sequel, Girl from Everywhere was excellent and Shades of Grey's creativity blew my mind, as Fforde usually does.
Ashley *Hufflepuff Kitten* wrote: "I loved five of the six -- Handmaid's Tale kind of fizzled around the halfway mark or so, maybe partially due to the fact that it took me 3 months to read it.American Street was fantastic, I'm dy..."
YAY! Glad you liked most of them! :)
July8 books read
2 histfic
1 nonfic
2 owned
And three of them are plays! It was a fun month!
August12 books read
7 owned
2 nonfic
3 histfic
WOOHOO! I'm not expecting a lot to wind up on the read-list for September so I'm proud of August :)
Ashley *Hufflepuff Kitten* wrote: "August12 books read
[bookcover:Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words|908..."Great job Ashley!
Thanks ladies!September
8 books read
1 nonfic
3 owned
1 reread
Loved catching up on Squirrel Girl and also knocking out a handful of owned books-- Breath finishes off a series I started reading 3yrs ago.
October12 books read
1 histfic
6 owned
Nice job Blue! I read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, too, I LOVED it! Did you?
omg I looooooooved Sleepy Hollow. Immediately started working on plans to write a retelling somehow. It's in my top 5 favorite classics :)
Ashley *Hufflepuff Kitten* wrote: "omg I looooooooved Sleepy Hollow. Immediately started working on plans to write a retelling somehow. It's in my top 5 favorite classics :)"YAY! It was so much better than I though it would be! I'm going to be reading more of Irving's stuff! He was a great writer :)
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde was fantastic too. Both of those are going back on my list for forever-October rereads. And I agree, I'm looking forward to picking up more Irving stuff!
November
3 owned
1 histfic
LOL Ashley! I read a lot of BIG BOOKS for the Tome Topple readathon, so I didn't get as many books read as I wanted either. But I'm not sweating it any more.I'm actually debating changing my goals again for next year, but I want to think about it some more first.
Thanks Jenny :) I wrote 39k for NaNo so that's where all my energy went this month lol. AND all four of these were audiobooks.
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Goals:
- 50 owned/unread
- including my top 5 in that category:
- 20 historical fiction
- 20 nonfiction
- more diverse authors/characters
- read The Chronicles of Narnia
- read at least one Shakespeare play
owned - read and DNF - 41/50
histfic - 12/20
nonfic - 11/20