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message 1: by Charleen (last edited Sep 28, 2018 12:12PM) (new)
Dec 09, 2017 07:27AM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments In 2017, I managed to read 173 books... not counting any of the numerous picture books I read with my toddler. This year I'm going to start including those as well, so we'll see what happens. I'm setting my overall goal at 200, but I've also got some smaller, more specific goals in mind.

Edit 2/23: upping my goal to 300

Edit 9/28: back to 200, what was I thinking? 🤣


message 2: by Charleen (last edited Dec 31, 2018 02:05PM) (new)
Jan 01, 2018 12:22PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments My 2018 reading resolutions:

✔️ I want to read 36 books (avg 3/month) that are not comics, children's books, or re-reads.
1. The Girl with All the Gifts
2. Wishful Drinking
3. The Last Tudor
4. Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging
5. Shockaholic
6. The Interestings
7. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
8. A Short History of Nearly Everything
9. The Fifth Season
10. Gerald's Game
11. We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories
12. The Obelisk Gate
13. The Stone Sky
14. Surprise Me
15. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
16. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
17. My Last Continent
18. Shadow Tag
19. Every Note Played
20. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
21. The Square Root of Summer
22. The Handmaid's Tale
23. The Obsidian Chamber
24. Not My Father's Son
25. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
26. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
27. City of Endless Night
28. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
29. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
30. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
31. Furies of Calderon
32. The Adoration of Jenna Fox
33. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
34. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
35. Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness
36. Crocodile on the Sandbank
37. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
38. Leah on the Offbeat
39. Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
40. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
41. Stories of Your Life and Others
42. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
43. Ball Lightning
44. Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
45. Infomocracy
46. Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
47. Null States
48. State Tectonics
49. Washington: A Life
50. Year of Yes
51. The Outsider
52. The Kiss Quotient
53. Words Without Music: A Memoir
54. Time Salvager
55. Lethal White
56. The Wanderers
57. Cycle of the Werewolf
58. Becoming
59. Shine Shine Shine
60. The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
61. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
62. Oryx and Crake
63. The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
64. Ninth City Burning
65. The Music Shop
66. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
67. Elevation
68. Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day

✔️ I want at least half of those to be books that were on my TBR pre-2018.
Still maintaining that ratio as I continue reading. - 39/68

✔️ I want to read all of the unread digital comics I have sitting on Comixology.
I still have a small unread list of recent purchases, but I finally cleared out everything I'd bought and ignored since last year.


message 3: by Elyse, Moderator (new)
Jan 01, 2018 03:57PM

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 8853 comments Mod
Welcome back, Charleen!


message 4: by Charleen (new)
Jan 01, 2018 08:06PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments Thanks!


message 6: by Charleen (new)
Jan 05, 2018 07:45PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments Sooo... maybe I need to up my goal? We'll see. There's no way I'll keep up this pace with the comics.


message 7: by Andrea, Moderator (new)
Jan 06, 2018 09:33AM

Andrea | 4465 comments Mod
Maybe I should start reading comincs :)


message 8: by Stacie (new)
Jan 06, 2018 06:46PM

Stacie (stacieh) | 1945 comments Andrea wrote: "Maybe I should start reading comincs :)"

You should! They are a different style of literature, and they are beautiful, and they engage you in a different way than standard print. (Wow, I just got really excited there, lol!)


message 9: by Charleen (new)
Jan 07, 2018 07:04PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments It took a while for me to get used to reading comics, but they are so fun and satisfying. And when my brain refuses to focus on pages full of words, it's nice to still be able to get my story fix in.


message 10: by Elyse, Moderator (new)
Jan 08, 2018 06:40AM

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 8853 comments Mod
Charleen wrote: "It took a while for me to get used to reading comics, but they are so fun and satisfying. And when my brain refuses to focus on pages full of words, it's nice to still be able to get my story fix in."

I still have a hard time with them. They need to be the right comic in order for me to enjoy! lol


message 11: by Stacie (new)
Jan 08, 2018 06:55AM

Stacie (stacieh) | 1945 comments Do you have ComiXology Unlimited? I’m thinking about trying it, but can’t find a list of what they have available. I know it’s ‘select titles’ which usually translates into “things I’m not interested in”.


message 12: by Elyse, Moderator (new)
Jan 08, 2018 06:57AM

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 8853 comments Mod
Stacie wrote: "Do you have ComiXology Unlimited? I’m thinking about trying it, but can’t find a list of what they have available. I know it’s ‘select titles’ which usually translates into “things I’m not interest..."

There's a free 30-day trial so you can browse for a month before you decide you want to keep it or not!


message 13: by Charleen (new)
Jan 08, 2018 06:25PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments I haven't tried it, but I know a lot of what they have is first volumes, so you can get a taste of lots of different things, but then have to buy if you want to continue the series. Not a bad business model, really. But I know several readers who subscribed for a month or two and then quit because they already read everything they were interested in.


message 15: by Elyse, Moderator (new)
Jan 13, 2018 03:52PM

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 8853 comments Mod
Well, dang you're killing it already, Charleen!


message 16: by Charleen (new)
Jan 19, 2018 06:03PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments Elyse, I certainly wasn't expecting to read 40 comic collections in the first two weeks of the year! That pace isn't going to continue, and kids' books should slow down as well since I'm not listing repeat readings. Even so, I'm going to see where I am at the end of January and then probably adjust my goal.


message 17: by Charleen (last edited Feb 28, 2018 11:15AM) (new)
Jan 26, 2018 06:56PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments 45. The Last Tudor
46. Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging


message 18: by Charleen (last edited Feb 28, 2018 11:16AM) (new)
Feb 02, 2018 07:17PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments 47. Shockaholic
48. Wonder Woman, Volume 4: Godwatch
49. Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile


message 19: by Charleen (last edited Feb 28, 2018 11:16AM) (new)
Feb 09, 2018 06:09PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments 50. The Interestings


message 21: by Andrea, Moderator (new)
Feb 17, 2018 08:22AM

Andrea | 4465 comments Mod
Wow, Charleen!!


message 23: by Charleen (new)
Feb 23, 2018 07:42PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments I kinda feel like maybe I should go back to not counting picture books... partly because they are quick and easy numbers, and partly because it's hard to keep track of what I've already listed (when we end up reading the same ones over and over).

Regardless, I'm going to up my goal to 300. If I can figure out a way to keep tracking the little man's books without driving myself crazy, I'll probably end up raising it again.


message 24: by Elyse, Moderator (new)
Feb 24, 2018 01:50PM

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 8853 comments Mod
Charleen wrote: "I kinda feel like maybe I should go back to not counting picture books... partly because they are quick and easy numbers, and partly because it's hard to keep track of what I've already listed (whe..."

You already have a shelf for books you read with your son? Then I wouldn't count them here. Since you do read them over and over again and it's hard to keep track of. lol


message 25: by Charleen (new)
Feb 28, 2018 11:38AM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments I just took out 40 picture books from my previous posts in this thread and re-numbered everything accordingly. Anyone who's curious about the books we read can keep up over at this shelf.

Between this shelf (where duplicates are more easily avoided) and his 1000 Books Before Kindergarten reading log (where re-reading is encouraged), trying to list books here too was a bit too ambitious.


message 26: by Andrea, Moderator (new)
Mar 03, 2018 05:55PM

Andrea | 4465 comments Mod
I think whatever and however you want to count is fine :)


message 27: by Charleen (new)
Mar 05, 2018 08:45AM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments Thanks, Andrea.


message 34: by Andrea, Moderator (new)
Apr 10, 2018 10:25AM

Andrea | 4465 comments Mod
Holy Moly girl!!! Wow, 102 books already :)


message 35: by Charleen (new)
Apr 10, 2018 12:22PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments Thanks, Andrea! You do have to realize, though, that all but 18 of those have been comic trades... which is why (1) my overall goal is so high and (2) I have secondary goals listed at the top of my thread.


message 36: by Andrea, Moderator (new)
Apr 11, 2018 11:35AM

Andrea | 4465 comments Mod
No matter, that is still awesome :)


message 37: by Charleen (new)
Apr 12, 2018 05:53PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments Joanne, I do have a few comics I buy monthly at my local shop, but my extensive Comixology TBR is mostly freebies or $.99 sales, and as such tend to be random and/or not very high priority on my reading list. They do get expensive quickly if you don't watch out!


message 38: by Elyse, Moderator (new)
Apr 13, 2018 06:42AM

Elyse (winesaboutbooks) | 8853 comments Mod
Charleen wrote: "Joanne, I do have a few comics I buy monthly at my local shop, but my extensive Comixology TBR is mostly freebies or $.99 sales, and as such tend to be random and/or not very high priority on my re..."

I cancelled my Comixology account, I was getting too overwhelmed. I wishlisted all the comics that were "unlimited" with the account so when I go back, I have them to re"buy." And my goal in the next few months (Hey Dewey's!) is to read the free ones that I got to keep after cancelling!


message 40: by Charleen (new)
Apr 23, 2018 09:47AM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments 105. Shadow Tag

Slow week.


message 45: by Charleen (new)
May 23, 2018 01:35PM

Charleen (charleenlynette) | 1688 comments Joanne, I thought it was really good. I haven't watched the miniseries so don't know how it compares, but the book was a pretty quick read and SO compelling!


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