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message 1: by NancyJ (last edited Dec 21, 2021 05:23AM) (new)

Jan 01, 2021 02:32PM

It's time to get back to a normal life (albeit mostly still at home), and my ideal reading pace. I overdid it in 2020 by reading about 270 books, but I didn't enjoy that pace. In 2021 I will read fewer books, be more mindful when selecting them, and take more time to savor them.

✅2021 Goal = 120-140 books = Focus on quality over quantity, enjoyable and mindful reading, with breadth.

✅🌎2021 World Goal = Read books from at least 24 -36 different countries, from 7 continents, plus key countries/regions: Middle East, Russia, China, Japan, SE Asia islands, India.

Challenges:
12 ✅ PBT tags = read books for every tag (mindfully, not exclusively)
11✅Fly the PBT Skies and mini challenges - On Target. December, and last mini-challenge still to complete.
12✅Pursue it - Found at least 3/4 each month.
✅✅✅Around the Year in 52 prompts - 2 rounds, plus prompts that didn't make the list

✅Read 21 books published in 2021.

Author list - authors to watch
✅12 Target Lists - Read at least one book from each list (overlaps are permitted).
✅Learning goals, emerging interests - ✅History, ✅revolutions (✔China, ✔French, Russian), ✅1800's, ✔1920's -

❌Read at least 20 non-fiction books, with both broadening and practical topics. Seek fiction and nonfiction books that are linked.

🎯NANCY's TARGET LISTS- Read at least one book from target topics/lists
Warwick Women in Translation nominees/winners ✅2
Women's Prize for Fiction ✅ 7
Obama's List(s) ✅ 1
TED reading list✅ 1 Final List!!!!
NPR lists - focus on eye opening, culture/identity, good writing ✅ 16
NY Time Notables ✅ 8
Booker short list or winners, plus International nominees ✅ 5
Pulitzer prize✅ 3
Nobel prize ✅ 3
Abe list of Essential Female Authors (best of all time) ✅ 14 authors + 1 in process. 16+1 books
https://www.abebooks.com/books/best-f...
USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read✅ 3
Dublin Literary Awards, plus International nominees ✅ 3

Authors to watch for 2021/2022:
✅Virginia Woolf (Read more in 2022), ✅Marilynne Robinson (read Lila), ✅Ruth Ozeki, ✅Olga Tocarczuk, ✔Flannery O'Connor, Amar El-Mohtar, Liz Moore, Becky Chambers, Aminata Forna, Edwidge Danticat, Magda Szabo, Zora Neale Hurston, ✅Viet Thanh Nguyen, ✅Ursula K le Guin, ✅Louise Erdrich, ✅Charlotte McConaghy, ✅Margaret Atwood (read in 2022). Sally Rooney, Alice Hoffman, ✅A.S. Byatt, Elif Shafak, ✅Daphne du Maurier, Octavia Butler, Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, 🔹Colum McCann, Tove Jansson, ✅Maggie OFarrell.

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message 2: by NancyJ (last edited Dec 16, 2021 09:46AM) (new)

Jan 01, 2021 02:38PM

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message 3: by NancyJ (last edited Oct 17, 2021 09:17PM) (new)

Jan 01, 2021 02:39PM

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message 4: by NancyJ (last edited Oct 14, 2021 02:52AM) (new)

Jan 01, 2021 02:39PM

Read the World and Fly the PBT Skies

Goal: Read books from at least 24 countries

Countries read in 2021 (some books covered multiple countries):
Ireland
Australia
Antarctica
Greenland
Newfoundland,Canada
British Columbia, Canada
Japan
Siberia/Russia
Ghana
Sweden
England
France
Haiti
Cuba
Papua New Guinea
Malaysia
Philippines
Nigerian Diaspora
Poland
Croatia
Nile river -Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania
Zambia
China
Singapore
Vietnam
Chile
Argentina
Peru
Columbia
Germany
Morocco, others
India
Spain
Italy
New Zealand
Myanmar
Syria
Venezuela

Goal: Read all 7 continents plus extra regions

Asia - Yes
Europe - Yes
Africa - Yes
Australia/Oceania - Yes
Antarctica - yes
North America (and islands) - Yes
South America - Yes

Extra regions to cover:
Russia - Kamchatka (Siberia) - yes
Middle East -
India - Host to Dalai Llama (Tibet), D. Tutu (South Africa)
China - Chinese in Malaysia
Japan - Yes, twice
SE Asia Islands - Yes. Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Philippines
Islands

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message 5: by NancyJ (last edited Jul 06, 2021 03:43PM) (new)

Jan 01, 2021 02:39PM

VISITED COUNTRIES - Note = Some books might temporarily be counted under more than one country.

https://map1.maploco.com/visited-coun...

Create Your Own Visited Countries Map

Books read in 2021

Create Your Own Visited Countries Map

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message 6: by NancyJ (last edited May 05, 2021 11:31AM) (new)

Jan 01, 2021 02:39PM

Create Your Own Visited Countries Map

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message 7: by NancyJ (last edited Dec 20, 2021 03:13PM) (new)

Jan 01, 2021 03:23PM

Need to Update:

🎯Target Lists: Read at least one book from each list:

✅ = Completed in 2021
✔ = read before 2021

Warwick Women in Translation nominees/winners: TWO
✅ Drive your Plow over the bones of the dead.
✅Things we lost in the Fire

Women's Prize for Fiction - SEVEN
✅✔Hamnet, won 2020
✅✔Home by Marilynne Robinson, won 2009
✅✔Girl, Woman, Other, Short list 2020
✅✔Bel Canto 2002
Homefire - winner 2018
Ordinary People - Short list 2019
Weather - Short List 2020

Women's Prize 2021 Short List:
✅Transcendent Kingdom read in 2021
✔The Vanishing Half read in 2020
✅Piranesi - 2021 Winner read in 2021
✅Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 2004
Unsettled Ground
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
No One Is Talking About This

Obama's Recommended books Lists ONE plus
Being Mortal
The Three Body Problem - Soon
The moment of Life
Life 3.0
The Warmth of other suns
The Fire Next Time
The Girl on the Train
Exit West
Obama's Summer Reading List 2021 - ONE
✅Klara and the Sun
Land of Big Numbers
Empire of Pain
Project Hail Mary
When we cease to understand the world - soon
Under a white sky - 2022
Things we lost to the water
Leave the world behind
The Sweetness of Water
Intimacies

TED books ONE
✅Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
You are what you risk
finding the mother tree
The lonely century
This is your mind on plants

NPR lists SIXTEEN
Focus on these categories: Eye opening, Culture/identity, Great writing,
Fish Don't Exist
Breath
✅Hamnet
✅Anxious People
✅Interior Chinatown
✅Piranesi
✅Splendid and the vile
✅ Jack by Marilynn Robinson
✅Once and Future Witches
✅ Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 2020
✅Writers and Lovers 2020 list
✅Bewilderment 2021 list
✅China Room 2021 list
✅Firekeeper's Daughter 2021 list
✅'Klara and the Sun 2021
✅People We Meet on Vacation 2021
✅Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting 2021
✅ The Sentence 2021
Land of Big Numbers
House of Sticks
Four Lost Cities
Empire of Pain
Crying in H Mart
Copenhagen Trilogy
Weather
Djinn Patrol
Wintering
Elatsoe
before the ever after

NY Time Notables EIGHT
✅Hamnet
✅Jack
✅Splendid and the Vile
Kim Jiyoung, born 1982
Hurricane Season
✅Writers and lovers

2021 list:
✅Klara and the Sun
✅The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
✅Bewilderment
✅The Sentence
The Copenhagen Trilogies

Booker short list or winners FIVE
✅Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo - Winner 2019
Lila 2015 longlist
✅Tale for a time being 2013 shortlist
Luminaries 2013 winner
Lowland 2013 shortlist
We need new names 2013
Garden of the evening mist - 2012 shortlist
Shuggie Bain - 2020 winner
Love and Other Thought Experiments -2020 shortlist
How much of these hills is gold - 2020 longlist
Apeirogon - 2020 longlist
The Overstory - 2018 list
2021 -
✅Bewilderment
Great Circle
The Promise
A Passage North
The Fortune Men
No one is talking about this

Booker International
✅Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk- 2019 short list
Flights, Olga Tokarczuk- 2018 winner
Mouthful of Birds 2019 longlist
✅Home - Marilynne Robinson finalist, 2011, 2013 -

Pulitzer prize
✅Sympathizer,
Gilead - ✅Home and ✅Jack

Nobel prize
✅Alice Munro(Master of the contemporary short story) - for May 2021 -RunawayRunaway
✅Olga Tokarczuk -Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
✅Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Abe list of Essential Female Authors (best of all time) FIFTEEN authors, 17 books.
https://www.abebooks.com/books/best-f...
✅✔Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
✅✔Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel
✅✔Isabel Allende - Island Under the Sea and ✅A Long Petal of the Sea
✅✔Marilynne Robinson - Home and ✅book:Jack|55608625]
✅✔Ruth Ozeki - Tale for the Time Being
Book of Form and Emptiness
✅✔Yaa Gyasi - Transcendent Kingdom
Zora Neale Hurston✔
✅A.S. Byatt - The Matisse Stories
Kate Atkinson✔
✅Alice Munro✔Runaway
Flannery O'Connor - dnf
✅Jhumpa Lahiri✔ - Whereabouts2021
George Eliot
✅Margaret Atwood✔ - Oryx and Crake
J.K. Rowling✔ maybe Christmas Pig
✅Roxanne Gay - Bad Feminist
Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend - SOON
✅Louise Erdrich - The Sentence
✅Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
✅Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
Jennifer Eagan✔
Sue Monk Kidd✔
Miriam Toews
Penelope Fitzgerald
Emily St John Mandel✔
Sylvia Path✔
Tayari Jones✔
Julia Glass✔

USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read
✅Yaa Gyasi - Transcendent Kingdom
✅Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
✅Rivers Solomon - The Deep
✔Jesmyn Ward
✔Alice Walker
✔Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower - 2022
Talia Hibbert -
Earnest Gaines
Edwidge Danticat -
Brandon Taylor - Real Life (DNF)
✔Tayari Jones
✔Jacqueline Woodson - more in 2022
✔Zora Neale Hurston
Imbolo mbue
James McBride
Toni Morrison
Maisy Card
Bebe More Campbell
Candice Carty-Williams
NK Jemison

Dublin Literary Awards 2021 winner announced May 20th
✅ Dark Mother Earth - 2021 Translated List
✅Girl Woman Other - 2021 Shortlist
✅Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead -2020 Shortlist,
Apeirogon (to read)
Hurricane Season (maybe)

AUTHORS to watch for: Aminata Forna, ✔Virginia Woolf, ✔Marilynne Robinson, Amar El-Mohtar, Liz Moore, Becky Chambers, Edwidge Danticat, ✔Olga Tocarczuk, Magda Szabo, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, ✔Viet Thanh Nguyen, ✔Ruth Ozeki,

Stretch topics:
Poetry - possibilities - Keats, Amar El-Mohtar
History - ✔Chinese cultural revolution, ✔French and/or Russian revolution,

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message 8: by NancyJ (last edited Oct 17, 2021 08:04PM) (new)

May 06, 2021 06:56AM

Expanded information on Awards lists:

2021 winner announced May 20th
Dublin Literary Awards - 2021 Shortlist
✅Girl Woman Other - Read in February 2021
✅Nickel Boys - Read in 2020
✅Lost Children Archive (Winner)- Read in 2019
✅On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Read in 2019
Apeirogon
Hurricane Season

Previous International DUBLIN Literary Award winners:
2020: Milkman by Anna Burns
2019: Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (USA)
2018: Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Irish)
2017: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa (Angolan), translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
2016: Family Life by Akhil Sharma(American)
2015: Harvest by Jim Crace (British)
2014: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombian), translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
2013: City of Bohane by Kevin Barry(Irish)
2012: Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor (British)
*2011: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Irish)
2010: The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker(Dutch),translated by David Colmer
2009: Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas(American)
2008: De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage(Lebanese / Canadian)
2007: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Norwegian), translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born
*2006: The Master by Colm Toibín(Irish)
2005: The Known World by Edward P. Jones(American)
2004: This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Moroccan) translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
2003: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk(Turkish) translated by Erdag M. Göknar
2002: Atomised by Michel Houellebecq (French), translated by Frank Wynne
2001: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (Canadian)
2000: Wide Open by Nicola Barker (English)
1999: Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller (English)
1998: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller (Romanian), translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
1997: A Heart So White by Javier Marías (Spanish), translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
1996: Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Australian)

Nobel Prize for Literature
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."
2020 Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
2019 Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”

2018 Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
✅Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead -Completed 2021
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”
✅Klara and the Sun Completed 2021
2013 Alice Munro “master of the contemporary short story”
✅Runaway by Alice Munro - Completed 2021

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message 9: by NancyJ (last edited Oct 17, 2021 09:48PM) (new)

May 06, 2021 07:01AM

SPRING UPDATE

✔PBT Monthly tags: Above target. I read 7-8 tag books per month. I could cut back here and be more selective.
Other books. I read 1-4 other books per month. Shoot for more.

✈✔Fly-the-skies Challenge - On Target. I visited a new country each month, with bonus miles for matching the tags.

🔍✔Pursue it - On target. Earned 5 points every month

🌎✔Countries goal I visited 24 countries so far this year, but it's misleading as some books covered multiple locations. On target to complete 2021 Goal of 24 books from 24 different countries.

Around the Year in 52 Prompts - On Target. 36 of the prompts have at least one option already read.

🎯NANCY's 2021 TARGET LISTS- Read at least one book from each target list or topic. Overlaps are expected. ON TARGET: Read at least 1 book from 8 of the 12 lists so far.

✅ = Read this year

AUTHORS to watch for:

✅Virginia Woolf , ✅Marilynne Robinson, ✅Ruth Ozeki, ✅Olga Tocarczuk , ✅Viet Thanh Nguyen 1,

🎯Target Lists: Read at least one book from each list:
✅Read from 10 of the 12 lists.

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message 10: by NancyJ (last edited Jul 15, 2021 12:08AM) (new)

Jul 06, 2021 05:13PM

Mid Year Check - Doing fine

As of July 7:

67 books read in first half of 2021. (Annual target = 120-140)
31 Countries - Ahead of target

Tags - all
Pursue it - all so far
Bonuses - all so far

Fly the skies - Antarctica, Siberia, Chile, China, Argentina, Paris,
- Continents- Antarctica, Asia, South America, Europe (Still need Oceania, North America, Africa) On Target
- Places I visited before - Paris France (goal =1-2 max)
- Countries of origin - (Poland, Germany, Ireland)

21 books published in 2021 - 5/21 completed - behind
20 nonfiction - 7 - slightly behind
Target&Award lists - 11 lists with at least one book completed - ahead of target
Key topics - 2 of 6 - behind target
Around the Year Challenge - 49 of 52 weeks completed -way ahead of target

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