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LOST 2022
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Anna's Reading Life
Bea COMPLETED
Beth
Beverly COMPLETED
Blarneygod
Brandi
Charity
Christina
Coralie COMPLETED
Dee
Ebony
Elvenn
Ines
Joanna COMPLETED
Joyce COMPLETED
Kim
Lagullande COMPLETED
LaurLa COMPLETED
Luann COMPLETED
Lyn (Readinghearts)
LynnB COMPLETED
Mary
Meg COMPLETED
Mell
Michelle COMPLETED
Nat COMPLETED
Rachel
Rosalynn
Rosemary COMPLETED
Shannon
Soelo COMPLETED
Stacey
Susan COMPLETED
Tien COMPLETED
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√1. The Tea Rose Read 4/8/22 - 4*
√2. A Drop of the Hard Stuff Read 5/11/22 - 3*
√3. Carte Blanche Read 7/3/22 - 2.5*
√4. Joy for Beginners Read 1/19/22 - 4*
√5. Haunting Violet Read 5/22/22 - 4*
√6. The Story of Beautiful Girl Read 5/29/22 - 4*
√7. Liar's Moon Read 5/6/22 - 4*
√8. State of Wonder Read 6/28/22 - 4*√9. The Astral Read 8/23/22 - 3*
√10. Secret of the White Rose Read 8/20/22 - 4*
All were added to my WISHLIST June 2011
My 2022 LOST List:📚1. Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge, Helen Rappaport, 28 Mar 2022
📚2. The Funeral Dress, Susan Gregg Gilmore, 10 May 2022
📚3. Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler, Bruce Henderson, 9 Jan 2022
📚4. Racing the Devil, Charles Todd, 2 July 2022
📚5. The Guilty Dead, P.J. Tracy, 8 June 2022
✔6. The Lightkeeper's Daughters, DNF
📚7. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter, Hazel Gaynor, 23 Jan 2022
📚8. The Myth of Perpetual Summer, Susan Crandall, 2 June 2022
✔9. The Hole in Our Gospel (non-fiction), DNF
📚10. Lost For Words, Stephanie Butland, 20 May 2022
The oldest on the list was added in 2013.
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10/10 books as at 07/14
1. Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller -Read 01/02 ★★★
2. Joan Makes History (Singer family #3) by Kate Grenville -Read 01/04 ★★
3. Cherry Pie (Simone Kirsch #3) by Leigh Redhead -Read 02/17 ★★★
4. The Brush Off (Murray Whelan #2) by Shane Maloney -Read 03/30 ★★★½
5. To the Islands by Randolph Stow -Read 03/05 ★★★
6. Tangara by Nan Chauncy -Read 04/28 ★★★★
7. Confederates by Thomas Keneally -Read 04/30 ★★½
8. The Treatment and the Cure by Peter Kocan -Read 05/27 ★★★★
9. Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre -Read 06/17 ★★★
10. Finding Cassie Crazy (Ashbury/Brookfield #2) by Jaclyn Moriarty -Read 07/14 ★★★½
The Glass Canoe by David Ireland
Playmaker by Thomas Keneally
Here is my list! ✅ Day 1: 4 April 2016
1. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
2. Ginny Gall by Charlie Smith
Day 2: 7 April 2016
✅ 3. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Day 3: April 8 2016
5. Dear Catharine, Dear Taylor: The Civil War Letters of a Union Soldier and His Wife by Richard L. Kiper
6. Conversations with Beethoven by Sanford Friedman
✅ 7. Desperate Sons: The Secret Band of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War by Les Standiford
8. The Door by Magda Szabó
9. Doc by Mary Doria Russell
10. Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
I often add an entire series to my TBR. For this game, I have listed the first two series from these two days below. I will allow a substitute from the series listed below to count for LOST.
Series Sano Ichiro. Laura Joh Rowland
✅ 11. The Samurai's Wife
12. Black Lotus
13. The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria
14. The Dragon King's Palace
15. The Perfumed Sleeve
16. The Assassin's Touch
17. Red Chrysanthemum
18. The Snow Empress
19. The Fire Kimono
20. The Cloud Pavilion
21. The Ronin's Mistress
22. The Incense Game
23. The Shogun's Daughter
24. The Iris Fan
Series. Blood on Snow. Jo Nesbo
✅ 25. Blood on Snow
26. Midnight Sun
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1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens This is the year I am finally going to get this one done!
2. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
3. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
4. Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson
5. Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
6. The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice
7. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
8. Split Second by David Baldacci
9. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
10. The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father by Jim Wight
Alternates:
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
The 5th Horseman by James Patterson
My LOST 2022 list - nothing too taxing this year!
Goal: 10 (+18 bonus)Progress: 28/28 (100%)
COMPLETED 10/2/22
I'm going to create some of my own rules here, due to the books that are in these slots on my list. I'm going to bypass anything that is part of a series in which I have not read the previous books. I will replace a book in the series with the initial or earlier book in that series that I have yet to read. In addition, I will only place one book in a series on this list. Any books that I am unable to locate will be removed and replaced with the next book on the list. Finally, I would like to challenge myself to a "bonus round" by selecting the first 3 audiobooks from each year on my TBR.
✦1. The Ivory and the Horn - Charles de Lint (replaces The Onion Girl)
✦2. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
✦3. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
✦4. Finding Colin Firth - Mia March
✦5. Glaciers - Alexis M. Smith
✦6. Long Gone - Alafair Burke
✦7. The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
✦8. Methland - Nick Reding
✦9. Chakras for Beginners - David Pond The Book of Chakra Healing
✦10. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Bonus Picks:
2016
Circling the Sun
Shutter Island
The Water is Wide
2017
This is How it Always is
History of Wolves
The Last One
2018
I Was Anastasia
Robicheaux
Tangerine
2019
The Night Tiger
The Lost Girls of Paris
The Girls at 17 Swann Street
2020
Sadness is a White Bird
The Scent Keeper
The Shepherd's Hut
2021
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Minor Detail
The Boy in the Field
Lagullande's LOST 2022Read: 10/10
✔️1. Neverhome 5/1/22
✔️2. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives 16/6/22
✔️3. The Chimes 16/1/22
✔️4. A Place Called Winter 13/3/22
✔️5. A God in Ruins 31/5/22
✔️6. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree 31/1/22
✔️7. The Scarlet Pimpernel 5/2/22
✔️8. 11/22/63 28/2/22
✔️9. Get in Trouble 28/2/22
✔️10. The White Van 6/2/22
All were added to my shelves in January or February 2015
And I also have the following still to read:
LOST 2017 6 books
LOST 2020 4 books
LOST 2021 9 books!
Meg's LOST 20221. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia ✔
2. The Good Lord Bird ✔
3. In the Country of Men ✔
4. The Heart Radical ✔
5. Small Island ✔
6. This Book Will Save Your Life ✔
7. The Bear ✔
8. The Death of Bees ✔
9. Ladder of Years✔
10. To the Lighthouse
(all added in 2014)
Count me in! I'll begin working on the list... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Read: 3 of 10LOST 2022
- Anne of Avonlea ✔ read Jan 7, 2022
- Anne of the Island ✔ read Aug 11, 2022
- Anne of Windy Poplars ✔ read Sep 10, 2022
- Nemesis
- Inferno
- Infanta (I & II)
- Nocturne
- Troika
- Avatar
- Tailchaser's Song
First three owned since 1996 and the rest since 1997, but added to my Goodreads shelves well after joining...
-> To 2021's list.
My LOST list for 2022 Completed 9/10 & 1 DNF
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7. The Scarlet Pimpernel
8. 11/22/63..."
Loved these two!
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Jan 1 - December 31, 2022
added in 2011:
✔1 Death of a Dissident - fin 11/4
added in 2012:
✔2 Cobweb - fin 1/4
added in 2013:
✔3 Death of a Red Heroine - fin 6/17
pub 7/1/2003; added 4/30/2013
✔4 Farthing - fin 2/14
✔5 Gameboard of the Gods - fin 3/9
pub 6/4/2013; added 6/19/2013
✔6 The Unincorporated Man - fin 9/3
pub 3/31/2009; added 7/31/2013
✔7 Remnant Population - fin 9/16
pub 9/30/2003; added 7/31/2013
✔8 The Mark, added 7/31/13 - fin 8/19
✔9 The Riddle of St. Leonard's - fin 8/22
✔10 The Lord of Opium - fin 9/28
COMPLETED 11/4/22
this looks interesting....I may give it a try
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FINISHED! 10 of 10 in November! I'm not sure I've ever done that.
My Lost List 2022 aka books I promised myself I would read or reread when I was in my 20's.1. Pride and Prejudice
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
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4. The Great Gatsby
5. Jane Eyre
6. The Alchemist
7. 1984
8. The Catcher in the Rye
9. Wurthering Heights
10. The Handmaid's Tale
Tien wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "Lagullande's LOST 20227. The Scarlet Pimpernel
8. 11/22/63..."
Loved these two!"
That's good to hear. I'm a bit daunted by the Stephen King's size!
Lost 2022Comleted: 0/10
1. Seduce Me in Dreams
2. Enslave Me Sweetly
3. The Black Prism
4. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
5. Edge of Sight
6. The Goblin King
7. Rescue Me
8. Bear Necessities
9. Run from Fear
10. The Wolf's Hour
☕️📚LOST 2022📚☕️Literally what books have been sitting on my TBR the longest at this point.
Completed 5/10
1) 🔲 The Last Song (TBR 2013)
2) 🔲 Spirit Bound (TBR 2013)
3) 🔲 The Time Traveler's Wife (TBR 2013)
4) ☑️ Curse of the Beast (TBR 2014) - Jan 18th
5) ☑️ Shadow Kiss (TBR 2014) - Jan 25th
6) ☑️ Blood Promise (TBR 2014) - Jan 26th
7) 🔲 Last Sacrifice (TBR 2014)
8) 🔲 Water for Elephants (TBR 2013)
9) ☑️ Deep Blue Secret (TBR 2014) - Aug 5th
10) ☑️ Gathering Blue (TBR 2014) - Sep 26th
Lost 2022 Top (or Bottom) 101. Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker
2. American Psycho - Read 6/26/2022
3. Atonement
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories - Read 6/12/2022
5. House of Flowers - Read 6/6/2022
6. The Code of the Woosters
7. The Color Purple - Read 6/30/2022
8. A Confederacy of Dunces - Read 5/31/2022
9. The Crimson Petal and the White
10. The Crow Road
me!!i'm basing my picks of my Amazon 2011 purchases shelf
1 Power Play - purchased Nov 19, 2011 - finished - 6/18/22 - semi-decent m/m NA/sports romance - felt too long in places but that is just the authors style - i don't read much of this genre anymore so don't think i'll be reading more in the future
2 An Unlikely Pair: The High School Years - purchased Jun 29. 2011 - finished - 6/11/22 - so apparently this was a short freebie and not the full length book i thought - so hardly took any time to read it, pretty typically NA, not likely goign to read more
3 Pictures of You - purchased Dec 28. 2011 - Finished - 6/5/22 - decent women's fiction, lite romance, solid ending that wrapped everything up, may consider reading more by author in the future
4 Blush - purchased Mar 11, 2011 - Finished - 6/25/22 - writing just felt blah - i was reading but not connecting with the characters - i've read a lot of Carew over the years but i don't think she works for me anymore
5 Dragon Warrior - purchased Jan 25, 2011
6 Dodge the Bullet - purchased Oct 28. 2011
7 Pearl of China - purchased Nov 3, 2011
8 Play Dead - purchased Nov 3, 2011
9 The Bond That Ties Us - purchased Dec 19. 2011 - finished - 3/27/22 - pretty decent erotic romance - I'm a total sucker for alien ones, so I liked this, but def felt a bit dated in the writing style
10 Never a Bride - purchased Jul 5, 2011 - Finished - 1/28/22 - a decent historical romance - intrigued enough to want to read more by this author
Lost 2022Completed 10/10 (6/21/22)
√ 1. The Power
√2. The Female Persuasion
√3. True Places
√4. Life and Other Inconveniences
√5. The Women in the Castle
√6. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
√7. Lost Roses
√ 8. Dead Level
√9. The Goldfinch
√10. The Secrets We Kept
I like this challenge. I have over 40 books on my TBR list that were added the same day nearly 5 years ago. I will see which ones are on my shelf and compose my list in the next day or two. Where do I go to add my name to the list? On this page or somewhere else?
Beth wrote: "I like this challenge. I have over 40 books on my TBR list that were added the same day nearly 5 years ago. I will see which ones are on my shelf and compose my list in the next day or two. Where d..."just say you are going to participate and the organizer will link your post
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Beth, I will add your name to the list when you create your list.
Of the over 60 books added to my TBR in April and May 2017(probably around the time I joined Goodreads), I found 10 on my shelves. I probably have more from that list on my shelves but I took the first 10 I could find. They are:1. John Adams - done
2. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - done
3. The Story of My Life - done
4. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever - done
5. The Shoes of the Fisherman - done
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin - done
7. Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties - done
8. A Swiftly Tilting Planet - done
9.The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II - done
10. The Fellowship of the Ring - done
I can see now why most of these have been on my TBR list to long.....they have many pages!! :)
I'll do what I can!
I just replaced #5 and #7....turns out I read them already. I will find others to add. I guess I was just looking at how long they had been on my book list. :( I see now that different editions were shelved....before I really knew how to maneuver the Goodreads system.
I read 8 books from my lost list last year. I don't plan to read all of the books below, but I have found having more choices, inspires me to read more. 2010:
The Rescue
P.S. I Love You
The Stand
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
People of the Book
2011:
Dark of Night
2015:
Queen of the Slayers
2016
At First Sight
How to Fall in Love
2017
Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life-currently reading
Two By Two
2018
Ruby Holler
The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America
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Bea wrote: "Blarneygod, don't forget that part #2 of LOST is Found which is books you've added more recently. And part #3 later in the year is Lost & Found."LOL true Bea, but I never get to part #2 because I never read all ten (at least not yet). Last year's 8, I think is as close as I have ever gotten to completing this challenge.
All twenty of my books I listed above are the oldest on my shelves. I am using this challenge to both read the books I have been meaning to read for a long time and to weed out the books from my list that have been sitting on my list for so long because I really don't want too read them (and finally admit I'm not going to and take them off my list).
LOL I did switch my covers back to links because I realized I was taking up way too much space with twenty book covers. Sorry about that!
MY LOST LIST 20221. Love 25/01/2022
2. Sputnik Sweetheart 03/01/2022
3. The Unspoken
4. Tiny Shoes Dancing and Other Stories
5. Valley of the Dolls 02/02/2022
6. Ordinary Grace 26/11/2022
7. 172 Hours on the Moon 15/02/2022
8. Cryptonomicon
9. The Nihilesthete 25/09/2022
10. 253 30/09/2022
LOST 20222. Wicked Nights
3. Hidden
4. First Drop of Crimson
5. This Side of the Grave
6. Sweet Peril
7. Sweet Reckoning
8. The Iron King
9. Darkest Mercy
My 2022 Lost List from 2010 through 201310/10 Read FINISHED
☑️1.Jacob (TBR 2011) 1/27/22
☑️2. The Outlaw Demon Wails (TBR 2011) 3/9/22
☑️3.Sins of the Night 2/21/22 (TBR 2010)
☑️4.Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend(TBR 2011) 2/5/22
☑️5.Single White Vampire (TBR 2010)1/6/22
☑️6. One Grave at a Time (TBR 2012) 2/25/22
☑️7.Sixth Grave on the Edge (TBR 2013) 3/17/22
☑️8.Claim the Night (TBR 2012) 3/23/22
☑️9. Accidentally Demonic (TBR 2011) 3/3/22
☑️10.Blood Trail (TBR 2013) 1/20/22
Done!Completed: 10/10
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1.) #Girlboss2.) One Plus One
3.) The Shoemaker's Wife
4.) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
5.) Little Bee
6.)The Fault in Our Stars
7.) Defending Jacob
8.) Odd Thomas
9.) The Maze Runner
10.) The Silent Girl
Ok, let's try this again. I only managed 2 books (plus one DNF) for 2021. I guess there's a reason these books are LOST. From my TBR of books available to me. I'm also doing the by the month challenge and want to keep it in mind, so don't wonder about the info in brackets ^^'1. ✔️La Belle Sauvage (By the Month - Jan or Oct)
2. Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece (By the Month - Mar or Nov)
3. Doomsday Book (By the Month - Mar or Jun)
4. ✔️Frankenstein (By the Month - Mar)
5. Dracula (By the Month - Mar or May)
6. ✔️Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde (By the Month - Jan or Mar)
7. Spirit Walker (By the Month - Mar)
8. The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (By the Month - Apr or Jun)
9. The Fifth Doll (By the Month - Apr or Jul)
10. The Power (By the Month - Apr or Jul)
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Ines, I try to use my LOST books in other challenges throughout the year, too. That makes it more likely for me to get them attempted...and not have them remain LOST.
i think LOST actually lines up pretty good with by the month - because you can use the mont it was added to your TBR shelf for the challenge
Bea wrote: Ines, I try to use my LOST books in other challenges throughout the year, too. That makes it more likely for me to get them attempted...an..."Yeah I'm pretty sure I won't finish the by month challenge (especially since I want to read newly added books too) but hopefully, it will help me progress with books that have been sitting on my TBR for way too long!
I'm in! Most of these were added in 2012 and I'm not even sure why on a couple of them, but here I go!1. Becoming by Raine Thomas
2. Undersea by Geoffrey Morrison
3. Daimones by Massimo Marino
4. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
5. Wind Riders by Patrick Park Tighe
6. Highland Ever After by Maya Banks
7. The Devil's Elixir by Raymond Khoury
8. The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
9. Fury of Obsession by Coreene Callahan
10. The Einstein Prophecy by Robert Masello
And let's not talk about the actual, physical books sitting in towers upstairs that I haven't gotten around to.
LOST 20220/10 books as at 01/01
All books added May 2, 2012
1. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
4. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
5. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
6. Marked by P.C. Cast
7. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
8. Night by Elie Wiesel
9. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
10. If You Ask Me by Betty White
LOST 2022Finished on December 20th!
`1 Irish Girls Are Back in Town - Cecelia Ahern Read 12/20/22
~2 Big In China - Alan Paul Read 6/10/22 (added in 2012)
~3 The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder - DNF
~4 The Princess Bride - William Goldman Read 10/10/22 (added in 2012)
~5 The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen - Read May 31st (added in 2012)
~6 The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson Read March 11th
~7 Lost and Found Read on 7/7/22 (added in 2012)
~8 Jennifer Government - Max Barry - Read March 9th
~9 The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield - Read Oct 4th (added in 2012)
~10 The Dark Queen - Susan Carroll - DNF
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Don't expect this will last lol
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Don't expect this will last lol"
LOL.
THIS YEAR I AM GOING TO FINISH THIS LIST BEFORE OCTOBER!Right, so that's the new goal. Finish so I can have a real chance at also finishing FOUND and LOST and FOUND 😁
LOST 2022
January - December 2022
My LOST 2022 Challenge (msg 49)
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Days like This ➺ 01.26 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ A Fine Madness ➺ 06.28 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Dry Adultery, Wet Ambition ➺ 07.03 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Night Secrets ➺ 06.05 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Fortune ➺ 08.16 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Rusty Nail ➺ 08.23 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Come Share My Love ➺ 03.12 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Guarding Kelsey ➺ 03.19 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ The Fire Still Burns ➺ 08.07 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Irresistible ➺ 05.30 ★★★
The oldest books/authors on my TBR list are ones recommended by my writing professor, Bob Slosser, in Fall 1997. I still have 13 authors on that list that I haven't read, and 10 of them are:✔️Jamie Buckingham - Read Tramp for the Lord, which he cowrote/ghostwrote
✔️Catherine Marshall - Read Beyond Our Selves
✔️Bodie Thoene, When Jesus Wept (I'd read another book by Bodie Thoene, but I had written down that my professor had specifically recommended The Jerusalem Chronicles, of which When Jesus Wept is the first. I'm not sure how that happened, as this book was published long after it was originally added to my list!)
✔️ Breathing Lessons
✔️ Gatherings
Truman
✔️Joan Didion -- read Let Me Tell You What I Mean, 5/6/22
✔️Scott Turow -- read Presumed Innocent 3/22/22
✔️Saul Bellow -- read Seize the Day 7/9/22
And a question from a newbie: How do you add checkmarks / checkboxes to your posts when you complete a book?
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This game runs from January 1- December 31, 2022.
The object is to make a list of 10 books that have been on your TBR list the longest and get them finally read.
You are allowed to DNF any book that you list after giving it a try.
This game is part 1 of 3. The other parts will be announced when people start finishing their LOST list as they are based on the date LOST was finished. However, you are not required to participate in parts 2 & 3, which are just incentives for not letting the LOST books linger.
Good reading, everyone.