Lizziefaye's Comfy Corner discussion

If you would like to join me in binge reading from your own bookshelves in 2022, let us know here in this thread and tell us your reading plans and goals

I would love to join you, Elizabeth, on your 2022 journey to binge your bookshelves. Here is a list from my bookshelves in groups of criteria that I would like to read/keep on my radar for reading in 2022.

I. MOST PAGES
1. Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque by W. Paul Anderson
(1,376 pages, hardcover)
2. Alaska by James A. Michener
(868 pages, hardcover)
3. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
(691 pages, paperback)
4. The Host by Stephanie Meyer
(624 pages, hardcover)
5. Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
(597 pages, trade paperback)
6. Raising Abel by Michael W. Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear (572 pages, hard cover)
7. Cities of Gold: A Novel of the Ancient and Modern Southwest by William K. Hartmann
(544 pages, mass paperback)
8. Dark Inheritance by Michael W. Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear (519 pages, hardcover)

II. EVERYONE ELSE has read this book but me
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

III. LONGEST on my TBR
1. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
2. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
3. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
5. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

IV. Those TOME Collections
1. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
2. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde - currently reading!
3. Works of Edgar Allan Poe
4. Complete Father Brown
5. Ingathering: The Complete People Stories by Zenna Henderson
6. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
7. Jane Austen: Six Complete Novels
8. The Portable Dorothy Parker

V. Those 'CLASSICS' (old, new, fiction, non-fiction)
1. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
2. Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
3. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
4. The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
5. Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
6. East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Woods

VI. More recent purchases/highly anticipated
1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
2. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
4. Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
5. Wild Life by Molly Gloss

VII. Books that are worth reading again
(*) asterisk were once on my shelf, but no longer
1. The Gormenghast Trilogy* (illustrated from the library)
2. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
3. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. The Source by James A. Michener
5. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

VIII. Why have I not read these regionals?
1. Growing Old at Willie Nelson's Picnic and Other Sketches of Life in the Southwest by Ron Querry
2. The Mysterious West by Tony Hillerman
3. The Shaman Cycle Series by Adam Niswander
---The Charm (will be a reread)
---The Serpent Slayers

IX. Reading my Agatha Christie Bantam Hardcover Collection
Read by the end of 2021: ??/82
Cumulative read in 2022: ??/82

X. From my NON-FICTION shelves:

XI. ACADEMICS

XII. Books not fitting in above categories:
1. The Pillars of the Earth/Pillars-Kingsbury #1 by Ken Follett
(readalong; 983 pages)

Donna wrote: "I would love to join you, Elizabeth, on your 2022 journey to binge your bookshelves. Here is a list from my bookshelves in groups of criteria that I would like to read/keep on my radar for reading ..."

Oh, I really like your categories!

I have certain categories chosen for certain months and I may just try and let my mood determine the others. That in and of itself will be a challenge for me. I will probably do mysteries more than one month.

January -Christmas Catch-up & Booktube Spin
Feb - Retro Romance
March - Cozy Mysteries
April - Amish books
May - Middle Grade
June - TBD
July - TBD
August - TBD
September - TBD
October -TBD
November - Nonfiction
December - Christmas books

Elizabeth wrote: "I have certain categories chosen for certain months and I may just try and let my mood determine the others. That in and of itself will be a challenge for me. I will probably do mysteries more than..."

Hi, Elizabeth. I see your rhyme and reason; the important reading challenge months. Interested in see how you define the TBD months.

Elizabeth wrote: "Donna wrote: "I would love to join you, Elizabeth, on your 2022 journey to binge your bookshelves. Here is a list from my bookshelves in groups of criteria that I would like to read/keep on my rada..."

Thanks, Elizabeth.

i would like to join the Binge Your Bookshelf challenge too. My idea is to do similar to Rick's Spin contest where i had friends pick a letter and a number and based on that, i find that specific book on my bookshelf. This way i don't pick, it just comes randomly. I've found some gems this way. i'll add my list here once i have it set.

Thanks for putting this together!

Jacquie wrote: "i would like to join the Binge Your Bookshelf challenge too. My idea is to do similar to Rick's Spin contest where i had friends pick a letter and a number and based on that, i find that specific b..."

I love that! It sounds really fun.

Cozy Reads wrote: "I am a digital reader so I am going to read from my kindle bookshelf (books I have bought on kindle but haven’t read yet) I will make a goal of 22 books and add them as I read them.

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Great plan Ro!

Hey y'all!! The first 22 books that I read that I own will go for this challenge.

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Hi I would love to join too. I'll add as I read books from my own shelf.

1 Betty & Veronica Spectacular Vol. 2 by Archie Superstars
2 Fattypuffs and Thinifers by André Maurois
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I'm so excited to see everyone's goals and lists here. Thanks so much for taking the challenge. I'm excited to hear about all of your progress as you go.
I started out this project with my Booktube Spin list for Round 5 by choosing all books that I own that I can get on audiobook.
For February I'm planning to participate in the Retro Readathon hosted by Storm Reads. I'm going to get through as many of my older romance books as I can by checking to see which ones I can get on audio.

Like you, Elizabeth, and the rest of those participating in this challenge, I'm wanting to read as many books from my own bookshelves as I can this year (22+). To help me achieve this, I'm also trying to find as many of these as I can on audio. I love immersion reading--reading the text while listening to the audio.

So... Here's my goal list (in progress). I'll put a check mark next to each book goal as I complete it.

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It won't let me edit my original comment so let's try here:

✅ 1) 5 Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
✅ 2) In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
✅ 3) Old Lady and the Trail by Mary Denison
✅ 4) Camino Island by John Grisham
✅ 5) Faceless Killers by Henning Mankel
✅ 6) A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
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