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I'm so excited for 2020 reading!01/01: The Return of Rafe MacKade 43 pages The Widow of Rose House 18 pages
Total 61
01/02: I Found You 88 pages
Total 88
01/03: The Widow of Rose House 22 pages I Found You 162 pages
Total 184
01/04: I Found You 103 pages
Total 103
01/05: no reading
01/06: The Woman in Our House 83 pages
Total 83
01/07: The Woman in Our House 121 pages
Total 121
01/08: The Woman in Our House 66 pages
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01/09: The Woman in Our House 77 pages Beauchamp Hall 31 pages
Total 108
01/10: Beauchamp Hall 84 pages
Total 84
01/11: Beauchamp Hall 173 pages
01/12: no reading
01/13: Window on the Bay 110 pages
01/14: no reading
01/15: Window on the Bay 91 pages
01/16: Window on the Bay 71 pages
01/17: Window on the Bay 64 pages Shelter in Place 179 pages
Total 243
01/18: Shelter in Place 180 pages
01/19: Shelter in Place 80 pages
01/20: Changing Habits 400 pages Brewed Awakening 21 pages
Total 421
01/21: Brewed Awakening 52 pages
01/22: Brewed Awakening 78 pages
01/23: Brewed Awakening 53 pages
01/24: Brewed Awakening 84 pages
01/25: no reading
01/26: no reading
01/27: Brewed Awakening 64 pages The Hazel Wood 36 pages
Total 100
01/28: The Hazel Wood 70 pages
01/29: The Hazel Wood 114 pages
01/30: The Hazel Wood 129 pages [Meant to finish this but I have a sick/needy husband.]
01/31: The Hazel Wood 19 pages
Pages Read: 8702
Books Read:
Anticipating Reading Divergence and devouring ARCs!:Proposed TBR:
The Scarred Woman--ARC. DIVERGENCE.
Far North. DIVERGENCE.
Miss Iceland--ARC. DIVERGENCE.
The City Among the Stars--ARC. VINTAGE SF
The Witches of Helcombe.: Book 1 of The Devon Witches Series--ARC
Girls with Sharp Sticks
Girls with Razor Hearts--ARC
1Q84 Omnibus. YARC
The Mercies--ARC
Two Lives--ARC. YARC
Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox--YARC.
A Malmö Midwinter Divergence.
MOURNING IN MALMÖ: THE SEVENTH INSPECTOR ANITA SUNDSTRÖM MYSTERY. Divergence.
Midwinter Blood Divergence
The Untouched Crime. ARC. YARC.
The Night of the Flood ARC.
The Skinless Face by Donald Tyson. ARC. Print.
Children of Blood and Bone. Series. YAFR.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance. Series. YAFR.
Binti: The Complete Trilogy. Series. YAFR.
No Good Men. Series. LGBT
Boiling Over Series. LGBT
Science in the Capital. 3. Series.
Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson. Series.
Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Series.
Rules for Vanishing
The Drowning Pool
The Girl In Cabin 13
Blackthorn: A gothic thriller
Clownflesh
01/01: Reading:
The Scarred Woman
01/02: The Best Christmas Ever (Christmas story
01/03: The Tenant
01/04: The Tenant. The Purity of Vengeance
01/05: The Purity of Vengeance
01/06: The Purity of Vengeance
01/07: The God Game
Storm Island
01/08: Shadow Puppet. The God Game
01/09: The God Game. Lion's Head Revisited
01/10: Charlie Harmer and The Lady In Red. The Deception of Seraphim Asylum
01/11: A Beginning at the End
Short Horror Stories Vol. 9: Scary Ghosts, Monsters, Demons, and Hauntings
01/12: The Shadows of Summer Reading The Third to Die
01/13: The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane. Reading The Third to Die
1/14: The Secret of White Stone Gate
01/15: Reading Midwinter Folk and Ghosts of Harvard: A Novel
01/16: Pace
01/17: Midwinter Folk
And Throw Away the Skins
The Tantrum Monster
01/18: The Girl Without Skin
01/19: Cold Fear
01/20: Pray For Rain. Breach of Duty. Evil Librarian--Reread. Curse of the Evil Librarian.
01/21: Cold Storage
01/22: Nightshade's Requiem
01/23: The Third to Die
01/24: Cast in Wisdom. The Gloaming
01/25: The Other People. The Dark Continent
01/26: Glissando
01/27: Fault Lines
01/28: IMPLOSION: The search is on for six million dollars hidden in a Las Vegas hotel destined for destruction!
01/29: Penguin Misses Mom. Sam The Speedy Sloth
01/30: The Absolution: A Thriller
01/31: Nolan's Ark
The Unwilling
Twelve Nights at Rotter House
Books Read:
Short Horror Stories Vol. 8: Scary Ghosts, Monsters, Demons, and Hauntings. ARC. Series.
Feast of Fear: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses. Series. ARC.
The Best Christmas Ever (Christmas story. Series.
The Tenant ARC
The Purity of Vengeance. ARC. Series.
The God Game
Storm Island
Shadow Puppet
The God Game
Lion's Head Revisited
Charlie Harmer and The Lady In Red
The Deception of Seraphim Asylum
A Beginning at the End
Short Horror Stories Vol. 9: Scary Ghosts, Monsters, Demons, and Hauntings
.The Shadows of Summer
The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane
The Secret of White Stone Gate
Pace
Midwinter Folk
And Throw Away the Skins
The Tantrum Monster
The Girl Without Skin
Cold Fear
Cold Storage
Nightshade's Requiem
The Third to Die
Cast in Wisdom
The Gloaming
The Other People
The Dark Continent
Glissando
Fault Lines
IMPLOSION: The search is on for six million dollars hidden in a Las Vegas hotel destined for destruction!
Penguin Misses Mom
Sam The Speedy Sloth
The Absolution: A Thriller
Nolan's Ark
My Hair-Raising and Heartwarming Adventures as a Pet Sitter: A Life of Fun, Fur, and Faith
The Unwilling
Twelve Nights at Rotter House
01/01: The Attempt, 149 pages01/02: The Attempt, 75 pages, finished
01/03: Ducks, Newburyport, 396 pages finished
01/04: Theonite: Orbit, 122 pages
01/05: Theonite: Orbit, 277 pages, finished
01/06: The Sword of Kaigen, 197 pages
01/07: The Sword of Kaigen, 454 pages , finished
01/08: Spring Snow, 74 pages and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 20 pages
01/09: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 122 pages
01/10: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 90 pages
01/11: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 257 pages, finished
01/12: A Girl Returned, 160 pages, finished and Murder at the Vicarage, 125 pages
01/13: Murder at the Vicarage, 10 pages and The Poppy War, 218 pages
01/14: Murder at the Vicarage, 153 pages, finished
01/15: The Blind Owl, 108 pages, finished
01/16: The Poppy War, 76 pages and The Body in the Library, 105 pages
01/17: The Body in the Library, 86 pages, finished
01/18: The Poppy War , 175 pages, finished
01/19: The Thirteen Problems, 315 pages, finished
01/20: Crime and Punishment, 138 pages
01/21: Nausea, 85 pages
01/22: Nausea,107 pages, finished
01/23: Crime and Punishment, 56 pages
01/24: Crime and Punishment, 166 pages
01/25: Crime and Punishment, 192 pages, finished
01/26: Abigail, 180 pages
01/27: Abigail, 180 pages, finished
01/28: 0
01/29: Utopia, 65 pages
01/30: Utopia, 70 pages, finished
01/31: Wondrous Moment: Selected Poetry, 92 pages
Total pages read: 5069
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1/1 92 pgs Hunting Ground
1/2 34 pgs Hunting Ground
1/3 28 pgs Hunting Ground
1/4 Nothing
1/5 56 pgs Hunting Ground | 10 pgs Fair Game
1/6 Nothing
1/7 54 pgs Fair Game
1/8 14 pgs Fair Game
1/9 Nothing
Pages Read: 288
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175 ebook pages, finished01/18:
138 pages, DNF + marked as read01/19:
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I'm honestly just trying to read a little of something every day - don't want to push myself too hard to read a lot when I'm so busy lately! Good luck to everyone <3
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Adrianna [SypherLily] wrote: "I'm honestly just trying to read a little of something every day - don't want to push myself too hard to read a lot when I'm so busy lately! Good luck to everyone <3"Perfect way to approach reading Adrianna, good luck to you too.
Welcome everyone and Happy New Year! How's everyone doing so far?
Karen wrote: "Welcome everyone and Happy New Year! How's everyone doing so far?"Hi Karen! Hope your new year has started out great :) Mine has been so busy - in and out of work. So making time to read has been hard - if I don't do it in the beginning of my day I tend to run out of time because then I'm left with "Huh, I could get 5 or 6 hours of sleep for work tomorrow....or I could read..." and I'm normally responsible lol! So I'm left not reading anything for the day D:
Other than that I'm loving Patricia Briggs' books - she's an amazing urban fantasy author!
What about you?
I like Briggs as well. I think I have only read the first two books in the Mercy Thompson series. I need to remedy that. Right now I am reading The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang, which is really good. I saw a review for it on Booktube, and decided to try Wang's books. I started with the first two Theonite books, which I am really glad I did.
I heard that The Sword of Kaigen is indeed good. It's in my TBR too.I started the year reading an anthology, usually I take longer to read anthologies than novels, but now I'm finished.
Leticia wrote: "I heard that The Sword of Kaigen is indeed good. It's in my TBR too.I started the year reading an anthology, usually I take longer to read anthologies than novels, but now I'm finished."
I finished the book wanting more, it's that good.
Everyone is doing great in January! Do you find that you read more in the winter?My biggest problem this month seems to be keeping to the books I plan to read, in other words, I keep changing the plan. I'll start one book, then switch to another book, by the end of the week, I am reading a third book. In the end I have completely forgotten about the first book.
Karen wrote: "Everyone is doing great in January! Do you find that you read more in the winter?My biggest problem this month seems to be keeping to the books I plan to read, in other words, I keep changing the..."
I have found myself reading more winter, romantic, cozy books in the winter. In the summer I've been finding myself reading more beachy things or stories set on an island.
I think it has to do with me really trying to live seasonally. I've been doing the same thing with food. In the summer eating more fruits and smoothies and in the winter going more for soups and comfort food.
I was also in need of a light, romantic read and it was this:
Leticia wrote: "I was also in need of a light, romantic read and it was this: "That story looks really interesting.
Leticia wrote: "I was also in need of a light, romantic read and it was this: "Hi Leticia, Did you read Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier? I was wondering how the two series compared. I like her world building.
I read the Ruby Red series too. They are very similar, the only difference is that Ruby Red has to do with time travel and Dream a little dream with dreams.Most elements are quite the same, but since I like the author's light style it's OK.
Leticia wrote: "I read the Ruby Red series too. They are very similar, the only difference is that Ruby Red has to do with time travel and Dream a little dream with dreams.Most elements are quite the same, but sin..."Thanks Leticia, I think I will put that on my list.
Leane wrote: "Karen wrote: "Everyone is doing great in January! Do you find that you read more in the winter?My biggest problem this month seems to be keeping to the books I plan to read, in other words, I kee..."
Leane, I like what you said about living seasonally and with food. I think I pretty much do the same thing, except when the thermometer reaches 100 for a few days, I reach for books with blizzards in them.
Karen wrote: "Leane wrote: "Karen wrote: "Everyone is doing great in January! Do you find that you read more in the winter?My biggest problem this month seems to be keeping to the books I plan to read, in othe..."
Absolutely! Who wants to read about someone sweltering away on an island when the humidity is unbearable and the temps are cause for concern?!
I feel the same way when it's freezing out. An occasionally story that takes place on an island is just the thing to take away the winter blues!
I recently read Shelter in Place, which was a great story. It took place in Maine, part of it on an island. I enjoyed the descriptions of the island through all the seasons.
Eating seasonally has been really nice: you're eating food in season, which usually means fresh and less expensive. It also means I look forward to what each season brings and enjoy the season I'm in now. This year I really focused on making different soups and trying ones I've never made before. (Borscht and clam chowder.)
Shelter in Place sounds great! Between you and me, I have about 10 Nora Roberts books I need to read before I buy another one. I don't think I have read a book by her that I didn't like. What kind of Clam Chowder, New England or Manhattan? Personally, I like both.
Karen wrote: "Shelter in Place sounds great! Between you and me, I have about 10 Nora Roberts books I need to read before I buy another one. I don't think I have read a book by her that I didn't like. What kin..."
I have 6 Nora books sitting in my pile right now! I really enjoy her books!
I made New England but I'm with you, both are good! I may have to try making Manhattan next time.
I also like to make extra and freeze them. Makes lunches/dinners so easy later on. Especially when I don't feel like cooking.
Hi everyone,We are down to the last few days of January, so has it been a good month for reading? It definitely has been for me. I was able to read two classics that had been on my radar for a very long time.
Karen wrote: "Hi everyone,We are down to the last few days of January, so has it been a good month for reading? It definitely has been for me. I was able to read two classics that had been on my radar for a ve..."
I can't believe the month is about to be over! Are we really a month into 2020 already?
You did really good this month, Karen!
Thanks Leane, I see you have put in a lot of reading as well.
Karen wrote: "Thanks Leane, I see you have put in a lot of reading as well."Thank you! I'm trying to start out strong but also take the time to enjoy the stories too.
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Welcome to a new year, and to another month. The idea is to enjoy a month of reading with no rules except to relax and read. I'll put a template below, and you may use it if you wish or create your own.
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