75 Books...More or Less! discussion

Starting with my list from 2017 and working from there. Some of these were on 2016's list...! Eep! Only books from 2016 or earlier except GR Giveaway wins.

1. Little Women Kindle 2014 4/5
2. The Sentinel Goodreads Giveaway 2013 2/5
3. The Bone Clocks Goodreads Giveaway 2014 1/5
4. The Woman in Cabin 10 Book of the Month Club 2016 4/5
5. Jurassic Park yard sale 5/5
6. The Lost World yard sale 4/5
7. Lost Stars Kindle 2015 4/5
8. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born physical hardcover gift from BIL to husband a few years ago 5/5
9. Blood Memory: Season One, Episode One Kindle 2013 3/5
10. Little Terrors Kindle 2016 3/5
11. The Shack yard sale 2/5
12. The Waste Lands inherited from mom's library 3/5
13. Rise and Shine yard sale 3/5
14. The Singer's Crown yard sale 2/5
15. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald iBooks 2016 3/5

Moving to 2019:
1. Station Eleven Kindle 2015
2. The Doubt Factory Goodreads Giveaways 2015
3. Promise Me Darkness Goodreads Giveaways 2016
4. Certain Dark Things Goodreads Giveaways 2016
5. First Comes Love Goodreads Giveaways 2016
6. Rebel Genius Goodreads Giveaways 2016
7. Teach Me to Forget Goodreads Giveaways 2017
8. Wonderful Feels Like This Goodreads Giveaways 2017
9. Infernal Devices Goodreads Giveaways 2017
10. Lily and the Octopus Goodreads Giveaways 2017
11. The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones Goodreads Giveaways 2017
12. A Fierce and Subtle Poison Goodreads Giveaways 2017
13. Her Royal Spyness Goodreads Giveaways 2017
14. Follow Me Back Goodreads Giveaways 2017
15. How to Party with an Infant Goodreads Giveaways 2017

Wow - that’s a good start! I just look at my shelves and say, “I should really read all of those.” 😂

Joy wrote: "Wow - that’s a good start! I just look at my shelves and say, “I should really read all of those.” 😂"

I just pulled my unfinished list from 2017. lol. We'll see what really happens! ;)

Little Women CURRENTLY READING

Finished Little Women. 4 stars.

The Sentinel CURRENTLY READING

Finished The Sentinel. 2 stars.

The Bone Clocks CURRENTLY READING

Did Not Finish: The Bone Clocks. 1 star.

Can't wait for you to read Station Eleven.

Oh man. lol. I've been bad! But I'm finally reading another on my list! Started The Woman in Cabin 10 yesterday!

Well, we can always just say that you are a "collector" of books. I swear I collect more paper than I actually scrapbook. I also collect more cleaning products than I clean with...hahah

Joanne wrote: "You have won a lot of books!👍👍"

I enter to win a lot of books. lol!

Andrea wrote: "Well, we can always just say that you are a "collector" of books. I swear I collect more paper than I actually scrapbook. I also collect more cleaning products than I clean with...hahah"

My husband would say "hoarder" of books but I like "collector" better! ;)

Finished The Woman in Cabin 10 on Saturday. 4 stars.

We have a joke in my house...if things start to get a little messy my husband says to me "the men are coming this week for the donations, what should I tell them to take?"

Andrea wrote: "We have a joke in my house...if things start to get a little messy my husband says to me "the men are coming this week for the donations, what should I tell them to take?""

haha! Not the books! Take the clothes over the books! lol

Adding and currently reading Jurassic Park! Paperback owned since before 2017.

Finished Jurassic Park on Monday. 5 stars!

Adding and currently reading The Lost World! Paperback owned since before 2017.

Finished The Lost World last night. 4 stars

Lost Stars because my husband has been begging me to read it for years and I didn't get to it during SciFiJune Readathon.

Finished Lost Stars the other day. Ended up listening to most the audio instead of reading as my husband wanted to enjoy it with me and we were on a trip. 4 stars

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born physical hardcover gift from BIL to husband a few years ago 5/5 Really enjoyed this little prequel story in graphic novel form! Read as a part of Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon on 7/28.

Read for a horror Readathon and they were Kindle freebies!
Blood Memory: Season One, Episode One Kindle 2013 3/5
Little Terrors Kindle 2016 3/5

The Shack yard sale CURRENTLY READING

Finally reading. At one point I owned 3 copies of this. lol.

I finished The Shack a bit ago.

Well duh, I read The Waste Lands in October!

And I'm currently reading Rise and Shine.

I finished Rise and Shine yesterday. 3/5

I started reading The Singer's Crown this morning. I'll probably only read one more book from this list this year to complete my ABC challenges!

I'm still reading The Singer's Crown and I also started Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald about a week ago. These will definitely be my last off this list for 2018. The rest will continue to move into the next year. lol. 15 though! I'm not unhappy about that number.

That is not too shabby, Elyse!

Andrea wrote: "That is not too shabby, Elyse!"

I did weirdly hamstring myself by only counting books owned from 2016 and earlier. lol. Next year I'm doing the Mount TBR Challenge so I'm going to count any books in any format owned prior to 2019. And I'm also going to try to balance my ABC Challenges around my NetGalley ARCs. I've already picked out my books for them all. lol

Oh no! You should have counted anything you physically own!

What is the Mount TBR Challenge??

Andrea wrote: "Oh no! You should have counted anything you physically own!

What is the Mount TBR Challenge??"

https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2...

Ohhh that looks interesting :)

Andrea wrote: "Ohhh that looks interesting :)"

I thought so! I need more motivation and I think it will help!

Just for my own curiosity, these are my "purchased (or given) in 2017, read in 2018" books (any format):

1. The Bear and the Nightingale (NetGalley)
2. So, Anyway...: The Autobiography (Audio)
3. The Yard (Audio)
4. Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Audio)
5. The Turn of the Screw (Audio)
6. Sourdough (NetGalley)
7. The Handmaid's Tale (Audio)
8. Those Girls (Audio)
9. Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song (Audio)
Nimona (Comixology)
10. Valiant High #1 (Comixology)
11. The Guild (Comixology)
12. Ladycastle #1 (Comixology)
13. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Audio)
14. I'm Just a Person (Audio)
15. Devil in a Blue Dress (Audio)
16. The Gathering (Audio)
17. Teenage Diaries: Then and Now (Audio)
18. The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories (Audio)
19. Bronx Masquerade (Audio)
20. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Audio)
21. Feed (Audio)
22. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Audio)
23. Wildflower (Audio)
24. I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction (Audio)
25. Redshirts (Audio)
26. More Happy Than Not (Audio)
27. Dust & Decay (Audio)
28. Freakling (Audio)
29. If I Run (Audio)
30. The Red Umbrella (Audio)
31. My Lady Jane (Kindle)
32. Ready Player One (Paperback)
33. The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Audio)
34. Plus One (Audio)
35. Rebuttal (Audio)
36. The Metamorphosis (Audio)
37. In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It (Audio)
38. Remember to Forget (Audio)
39. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (Audio)
40. The Fall of the House of Usher (Kindle)
41. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (Audio)
42. Kinsey and Me: Stories (Audio)
43. Shadowshaper (Audio)
44. Psycho (Audio)
45. Shadows on the Moon (Audio)
46. The Refugees (Audio)
47. In Cold Blood (Audio)
48. Last Scene Alive (Audio)
49. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian (Audio)
50. X (Kindle)
51. First Grave on the Right (NetGalley)
52. Gone (Audio)
53. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Audio)
54. Nova (Goodreads Giveaway Paperback)
55. Alien: Out of the Shadows (Audio)
56. From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars (Audio)
57. The Crime of the Century (Audio)
58. Good Behavior (Audio)
59. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism (Audio)
60. Valiant High #2 (Comixology)
61. The Guild: Knights of Good (Comixology)
62. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 (Comixology)
63. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Comixology)
64. Goldie Vance Vol. 1 (Comixology)
65. The Wishbones (Audio)
66. Here We Go Again: My Life In Television (Audio)
67. The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
68. You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures (Audio)
69. Gather 'Round the Sound (Audio)
70. The Girl in the Tower (NetGalley)
71. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF (Comixology)
72. Gwenpool, the Unbelievable, Vol. 1: Believe It (Comixology)
73. Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening (Comixology)
74. Waking Kate (Kindle)
75. The Infinity Gauntlet (Comixology)
76. Locke & Key (Audio)
77. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (iBooks)
78. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (iBooks)
79. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists (iBooks)
80. Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (iBooks)
81. The One Safe Place (Audio)

95% of them I no longer own so cleared from my virtual shelves. :) So 81 + 15 = 96! A much nicer number. ;)

Wow, that is awesome !!

82. The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country (Audio)
83. The Alienist (Audio)
84. The Goblin Emperor (Audio)
85. My Man Jeeves (Audio)

100!!

Well, you beat me Elyse. My books are still dustier though :)

Andrea wrote: "Well, you beat me Elyse. My books are still dustier though :)"

hahaha only because e-book and audiobooks can't get dusty! ;)

Hahaha Look out sista' I'm coming for you in 2019!