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Kendra's 2023 Challenges
💭2023 Plan💭💭Planned Reads:
⬜Unread: 46
✅Read: 70
🛑DNF: 2
⏰Moved to 2024: 2
📈 70/116 = 60%
(Read / Planned - DNF)
Published in 2023:
✅Lost in the Moment and Found
✅Backpacking Through Bedlam
✅Sleep No More
✅System Collapse
✅The Backup Plan
✅The Sweetheart List
✅The Stolen Heir
✅The Queen’s Price
✅Capture the Sun (3 centuries:Future)
✅Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
✅Lore Olympus: Volume Four
✅Happy Place
✅Huda F Cares?
✅Love Theoretically
✅Check & Mate
✅The Brothers Hawthorne
✅Family Lore
✅To Swoon and to Spar (3 centuries: Past)
⬜Heartstopper: Volume Five
✅Witch King
✅The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi (PS: Full Name)
✅Hell Bent (PS: Rabbit cover)
✅Magic Tides
✅In the Lives of Puppets
✅The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove
✅Deadly Class, Volume 12: A Fond Farewell, Part Two
✅Spy x Family, Vol. 9
✅Between Us
✅Magic Claims
⏰Winter Lost
❓Innkeeper 6
⏰House of Flame and Shadow
Carryover from 2022
✅Mad About You
✅Carnival
⬜The Shadow Rising
✅Shakespeare: Sonnets
Read for a Challenge:
✅The Sentence
⬜The Library Book (ATY: Books are important)
⬜Death Without Company (ATY: Western)
✅Siren Queen
⬜The Girl with All the Gifts (PS: Girl in title)
✅The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl (ATY: Spice Girls)
⬜Spoiler Alert (PS: Body positive romance)
✅Legends & Lattes (PS: NaNoWriMo)
⬜The Ten Thousand Doors of January (ATY: Debut)
✅The Sun Is Also a Star (PS: All in 1 day)
Erica Recommends:
⬜The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Book Tok)
⬜Six Crimson Cranes
⬜The Atlas Six
⬜Slightly Married
✅Fence, Vol. 1
⬜Daisy Jones & The Six
⬜The Song of Achilles
Book Basket:
⬜The Winners
⬜The Gathering Storm
⬜Towers of Midnight
⬜A Memory of Light
⬜The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
⬜The Witchwood Crown
✅Longbourn
⬜The Swan Maiden
⬜Serpent & Dove
⬜Project Hail Mary (ATY: Best book of the month)
✅Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
✅Between Shades of Gray
Other New Reads:
✅The Matzah Ball (Holiday not Xmas)
✅Lucky in Love
✅At Last
✅Forever and a Day
✅Under the Mistletoe
✅It Had to Be You
✅Always on My Mind
✅Once in a Lifetime
✅It's in His Kiss
✅He's So Fine
✅One in a Million
✅Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
🛑The Shadow in the Glass (PS: Retelling)
✅Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
✅Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun (PS: Book based on a movie)
✅Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
⬜Firekeeper's Daughter
✅This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
✅Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
⬜Lost in the Never Woods
🛑Give Me Some Truth
⬜Firefly: Return to Earth That Was Vol. 3
✅The Goblin Emperor
✅The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir
Jane Austen Reread:
✅Emma
Rereads:
⬜The Fires of Heaven
⬜Lord of Chaos
⬜A Crown of Swords
⬜The Path of Daggers
⬜Winter's Heart
⬜Crossroads of Twilight
⬜New Spring
⬜Knife of Dreams
⬜Twilight
⬜New Moon
⬜Eclipse
⬜The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
⬜Breaking Dawn
⬜Midnight Sun
⬜The Witch's Heart
⬜The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✅Clean Sweep
✅Sweep in Peace
✅One Fell Sweep
✅Sweep of the Blade
✅Sweep of the Heart
✅A Killing Frost
✅When Sorrows Come
✅Be the Serpent
✅The City of Brass
⬜The Kingdom of Copper
⬜The Empire of Gold
✅The Night Circus
⬜The Witching Hour
🅰️ATY🅰️75/75
✅1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Mar. 5th
♻️Magic Burns - July 30th
✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022.
Fragile Things - Mar. 29th
♻️Lore Olympus: Volume Three - May 12th
☑️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list:
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs.
✔️Aries
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 - Oct. 24th
✔️Taurus
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Mar. 20th
✔️Gemini
For the Wolf - Aug. 19th
✔️Cancer
Final Diagnosis - Mar. 23rd
✔️Leo
Pride of Baghdad - May 3rd
♻️Magic Bleeds - Aug. 10th
✔️Virgo
Lore Olympus: Volume Five - Oct. 12th
♻️Magic Stars - Sept. 26th
✔️Libra
The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers - Oct. 16th
✔️Scorpio
Sera and the Royal Stars, Vol. 1 - June 9th
✔️Sagittarius
Mr. Villain's Day Off 1 - Nov. 16th
✔️Capricorn
The Innocent Sleep - Nov. 1st
✔️Aquarius
Once in a Lifetime - Oct. 8th
♻️Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - July 31st
✔️Pisces
We Are Not Strangers - Oct. 4th
✅4. A book with an interracial relationship.
Angel & Hannah - Apr. 10th
♻️Magic Steals - Sept. 3rd
☑️5. A book with 4 or more colours on the cover.
The Sentence - Jan. 29th
✅6. A book where books are important.
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion - Jan. 24th
♻️The Archive of the Forgotten - May 29th
✅7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title.
And When She Opened the Closet, All The Clothes Were Polyester: A FoxTrot Collection - Feb. 10th
♻️When Sorrows Come - Jan. 30th
✅8. An author's debut book.
An Unexpected Kind of Love - June 27th
♻️The City of Brass - Dec. 18th
✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W.
Other Words for Home - May 26th
♻️Daughter of the Blood - Apr. 15th
☑️10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities".
✔️Ginger
And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race - June 21st
✔️Scary
Coyotes, Vol. 1 - June 13th
♻️Tangled Webs - Apr. 27th
✔️Sporty
The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl - Jan. 5th
📗Fence, Vol. 1 - June 14th
✔️Posh
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Aug. 3rd
📗The Matzah Ball - Dec. 6th
✔️Baby
Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs - May 31st
♻️Magic Binds - Sept. 16th
✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability.
Tatouine - Apr. 7th
♻️Love for Beginners - July 24th
✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies.
Untethered Sky - July 14th
♻️The Starless Sea - Mar. 2nd
✅13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover.
The Bootlegger Blues - Sept. 10th
♻️The Golden Enclaves - Mar. 31st
✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake.
Spy x Family, Vol. 9 - Apr. 12th
♻️The Invisible Ring - Apr. 23rd
☑️15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Past.
To Swoon and to Spar - Apr. 13th
☑️16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Present.
Lucky in Love - Feb. 5th
✅17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Future.
Capture the Sun - July 13th
♻️Mind Changer - Mar. 7th
✅18. A book related to science.
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You - May 31st
♻️Major Operation - Feb. 21st
✅19. A book related to the arts.
Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances - May 6th
📗Between Shades of Gray - Oct. 27th
✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel.
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Mar. 10th
📗The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . - Nov. 19th
✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author.
Listen, Slowly - Nov. 16th
♻️Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow - Sept. 4th
✅22. A book with a faceless person on the cover.
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts - Jan. 18th
♻️Eclipse the Moon - July 3rd
☑️23. A book with a body of water in the title.
Tropic of the Sea - May 7th
✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy.
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive - Feb. 18th
♻️Sweep in Peace - Jan. 8th
☑️25. A book with a tropical setting.
Wild Cards: Now and Then - Aug. 18th
☑️26. A book related to pride.
The Black Flamingo - June 12th
✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe.
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity - July 22nd
♻️Magic Triumphs - Sept. 23rd
✅28. A book that is dark.
Deadly Class, Volume 12: A Fond Farewell, Part Two - Feb. 8th
♻️Heir to the Shadows - Apr. 16th
✅29. A book that is light.
Always on My Mind - June 24th
♻️Small Magics - Aug. 23rd
✅30. A book related to a chess piece.
✔️King
Check & Mate - Nov. 10th
♻️Magic Breaks - Sept. 5th
✔️Queen
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life - June 29th
♻️Be the Serpent - Mar. 17th
✔️Knight
Sleep No More - Sept. 10th
♻️Sweep of the Blade - Jan. 14th
✔️Bishop
Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 1: Walking the Path - July 23rd
♻️Gunmetal Magic - Aug. 31st
✔️Rook/Castle
The Stolen Heir - Jan. 24th
♻️Iron and Magic - Sept. 18th
✔️Pawn
The Goblin Emperor - Oct. 7th
♻️Hunt the Stars - June 11th
✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on literature-map.com.
Even Though I Knew the End - Sept. 14th
♻️Magic Shifts - Sept. 8th
☑️32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature.
One Night In Edinburgh - Sept. 26th
✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
Hospital Station - Feb. 14th
♻️Magic Rises - Sept. 2nd
✅34. A novella.
The Road Home - Apr. 9th
♻️The Good Luck Sister by Jill Shalvis - May 16th
✅35. A book with a school subject in the title.
Norse Mythology, Vol. 1 - Feb. 22nd
📗How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes - Nov. 29th
✅36. A book that has been translated from another language.
Sweet Bean Paste - Apr. 9th
📗Spy x Family, Vol. 10 - Nov. 15th
✅37. A book with the theme of returning home.
Backpacking Through Bedlam - Mar. 6th
♻️The Lemon Sisters - Aug. 12th
✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Jan. 25th
♻️Honor and Shadows - July 4th
✅39. A western.
Carnival - Apr. 16th
📗As I Enfold You in Petals - July 28th
✅40. A book with a full name in the title.
Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor - June 8th
♻️Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Oct. 14th
✅41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists.
Siren Queen - Feb. 5th
♻️Lore Olympus: Volume One - Apr. 18th
✅42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter.
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day - July 13th
♻️Under the Whispering Door - May 22nd
✅43. A book that involves a murder.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - June 15th
♻️Blood Heir - Oct. 21st
✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal.
Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me - Aug. 26th
♻️The Library of the Unwritten - Apr. 8th
✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books.
Forever and a Day - Apr. 22nd
📗One in a Million - Nov. 27th
✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe.
The Old Woman with the Knife - July 19th
♻️A Cup of Silver Linings - Nov. 13th
✅47. A book related to a geometric shape.
For the Throne - Aug. 26th
♻️Queen of the Darkness - Apr. 20th
✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story.
Magic Claims - June 14th
♻️Sweep of the Heart - Feb. 19th
✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023.
Swing - Sept. 12th
📗Thornhedge - Oct. 14th
✅50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt. (4x)
✔️A book published in 2023.
Huda F Cares? - Oct. 10th
📗The Brothers Hawthorne - Nov. 5th
✔️A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists.
The Third Person - June 19th
📗Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Dec. 2nd
✔️A book where books are important.
But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films - Aug. 23rd
♻️The Book Charmer - Oct. 30th
✔️A book with the theme of returning home.
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite - Sept. 28th
📗Under the Mistletoe - Apr. 18th
✅51. A book published in 2023.
Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television - Sept. 13th
♻️Magic Claims - Oct. 5th
✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title.
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die - Jan. 22nd
📗Revenge of the Librarians - Dec. 2nd
🆎ATY Rejects🆎25/25
✅1. A winner or nominee from the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards.
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks - Feb. 27th
📗The Marriage Portrait - Dec. 4th
☑️2. A book of poetry or free verse.
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems - May 25th
✅3. A book involving genetics, genealogy, traits, heredity, heritage.
Naming Jack the Ripper - Aug. 14th
♻️Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven - Aug. 4th
✅4. A book related to Hollywood.
The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series - May 24th
📗Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV - Dec. 11th
✅5. Two books with words that are opposites in the titles: Book 1.
The Queen’s Price - Apr. 3rd
♻️Twilight's Dawn - May 3rd
✅6. Two books with words that are opposites in the titles: Book 2.
Witch King - July 7th
♻️Lost and Found Sisters - May 9th
☑️7. A book involving hope or hopepunk.
Wapke: Indigenous Science Fiction Stories - Sept. 30th
✅8. A book involving wolves or werewolves.
Artie and the Wolf Moon - Nov. 3rd
♻️Clean Sweep - Jan. 3rd
✅9. A work of fiction based on a real person or real event.
A Blanket of Butterflies (The Spirit of Denendeh, 1) - July 26th
♻️Dave Cooks the Turkey - Dec. 29th
✅10. A book involving aspects of language, linguistics, or the spoken word.
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language - July 27th
♻️A Deadly Education - Mar. 12th
✅11. A book related to something lucky.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Mar. 9th
📗He's So Fine - Nov. 25th
✅12. A book that is the 2nd or 3rd in a series.
Star Surgeon - Feb. 16th
♻️Lore Olympus: Volume Two - May 3rd
✅13. A book published at least 23 years before you were born.
The Fall of the House of Usher - Dec. 3rd
♻️The Secret Garden - Dec. 28th
☑️14. A book related to comedy.
The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy - Feb. 1st
☑️15. A book where one of the senses plays an important part.
Is This A Cookbook?: Adventures in the Kitchen - Jan 14th
☑️16. A book about colonialism or imperialism.
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol - June 6th
✅17. A book club read.
Hotline - Oct. 15th
📗Bookshops & Bonedust - Dec. 16th
✅18. A book with an echo.
Mirror to Mirror - Apr. 11th
♻️Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer - Sept. 14th
✅19. A romance novel.
It Had to Be You - May 19th
📗Not the Witch You Wed - Dec. 10th
✅20. A book about "a fish out of water".
The Fresh Prince Project: How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America - Aug. 24th
♻️The Shadow Queen - Apr. 28th
✅21. A book related to dreams or dreaming.
Solo - Sept. 17th
♻️Dreams Made Flesh - Apr. 24th
✅22. A book about crossing over to another world.
Lost in the Moment and Found - Jan. 11th
♻️The Last Graduate - Mar. 15th
✅23. A book with a cover you consider to be beautiful.
The Moon of Letting Go: and Other Stories - Aug. 7th
♻️The God of Lost Words - June 7th
✅24. A memoir.
She Memes Well - July 10th
♻️Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Nov. 20th
✅25. A book set during a holiday.
Rusted Veins - June 2nd
♻️One Fell Sweep - Jan. 9th
🍧Popsugar🍧 I tweaked the list a little. I put the major changes in bold.
50/50
☑️1. A book you meant to read in 2022.
Mad About You - Jan. 2nd
☑️2. A book you bought from an independent bookstore.
Is There Bacon in Heaven? - Feb. 24th
☑️3. A book about a vacation.
Happy Place - May 7th
✅4. A debut book.
Bloodlust & Bonnets - Mar. 23rd
♻️Magic Bites - July 25th
✅5. A book with mythical creatures.
Cryptid Club - Jan 3rd
♻️Magic Strikes - Aug. 6th
☑️6. A book about a forbidden romance.
iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World - Apr. 5th
✅7. A book with "Girl" in the title.
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai - Apr. 20th
♻️The Forever Girl - July 17th
☑️8. A celebrity memoir.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Mar. 24th
☑️9. A book with a color in the title.
Golden Girl - Sept. 15th
✅10. A romance with a plus size MC.
Electric Idol - May 5th
📗Not Your Ex's Hexes - Dec. 13th
☑️11. A book about or set in Hollywood.
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors - Jan. 25th
✅12. A book published in the first half of 2023.
The Backup Plan - Jan. 27th
♻️Magic Tides - Sept. 29th
☑️13. A book published before you were born.
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Oct. 3rd
☑️14. A modern retelling of a classic.
Lore Olympus: Volume Four - June 22nd
✅15. A book with a song lyric as its title.
At Last - Apr. 10th
📗It's in His Kiss - Oct. 18th
✅16. A book where the main character's name is in the title.
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman - Oct. 23rd
📗The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove - Nov. 30th
☑️17. A book with a love triangle.
Wash Day Diaries - Mar. 28th
☑️18. A book that's been banned or challenged.
A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings - Oct. 2nd
✅19. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge: A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Feb. 23rd
📗System Collapse - Nov. 22nd
☑️20. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023.
The Crossover - Apr. 26th
☑️21. A book set in the decade you were born.
The Mother of All Degrassi - Feb. 6th
✅22. A book with a queer lead.
In the Lives of Puppets - May 16th
♻️Almost Just Friends - Sept 12th
✅23. A book with a map.
The Cruelest Mercy - June 3rd
♻️Shalador's Lady - Apr. 29th
✅24. A book with a rabbit on the cover.
Hell Bent - Feb. 11th
♻️Bunnicula - Feb. 16th
☑️25. A book with just text on the cover.
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts - Apr. 30th
✅26. A short book from your TBR.
Shakespeare: Sonnets - Jan. 26th
♻️Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen - Aug. 9th
☑️27. A #BookTok recommendation.
Love, Theoretically - July 21st
✅28. A book you bought secondhand.
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir - May 11th
♻️About That Kiss - Jan. 28th
✅29. A book your friend recommended.
The Kinder Poison - Apr. 23rd
♻️Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - July 30th
☑️30. A book that's on a celebrity book-club list.
Family Lore - Sept. 7th
✅31. A book about a family.
The Sweetheart List - June 17th
📗A House with Good Bones - Dec. 17th
✅32. A book that comes out in the second half of 2023.
Between Us - Aug. 28th
♻️Sleep No More - Nov. 8th
☑️33. A book about an athlete/sport.
Rebound - May 28th
☑️34. A historical-fiction book.
Longbourn - Sept. 12th
✅35. A book about divorce.
Booked - Apr. 28th
♻️A Killing Frost - Jan. 22nd
☑️36. A book you think your best friend would like.
Kin - Sept. 9th
✅37. A classic.
Maria Chapdelaine - Sept. 24th
♻️Emma - Oct. 1st
☑️38. A book that makes you nostalgic.
Psyche and Eros - Aug. 2nd
✅39. A reread.
Beach Read - July 27th
♻️Magic Dreams - Aug. 12th
☑️40 A book by an author with the same initials as you.
The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor - Sept. 19th
✅41. A book written during NaNoWriMo.
Legends & Lattes - Apr. 3rd
♻️The Night Circus - June 29th
✅42. A book based on a popular movie or TV show.
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun - Jan. 11th
📗How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - Dec. 30th
☑️43. A book that takes place entirely in one day.
The Sun Is Also a Star - Feb. 12th
☑️44. A book that was self-published.
Magic Tides - Mar. 25th
☑️45. A book that started out as fan fiction.
Persephone: Hades' Torment - Sept. 27th
✅46. A book with a pet character.
Zero's Journey - Feb. 20th
♻️Magic Slays - Aug. 28th
☑️47. A book about a holiday that's not Christmas.
Friendsgiving: The Official Guide to Hosting, Roasting, and Celebrating with Friends - Mar. 7th
☑️48. A book that features two languages.
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be - June 18th
☑️49. A long book from your TBR.
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears - Sept. 21st
✅50. A book with alliteration in the title.
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia - Jan. 15th
♻️Magic Mourns - Aug. 10th
🍎Nadine's mini-challenges🍎 10/10
✅1. A book involving genetics and/or genealogy.
Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire - Mar. 17th
✅2. The 23rd book on a list.
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews - Feb. 19th
✅3. A book with five words in the title (because 2+3=5).
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Jan. 22nd
✅4. A book based on Norse mythology.
Norse Mythology, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman - Feb. 22nd
✅5. A book related to sheep or shepherds.
In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 6th
✅6. A book with flames on the cover or in the title.
And When She Opened the Closet, All The Clothes Were Polyester: A FoxTrot Collection - Feb. 10th
✅7. A title that starts with W.
When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 30th
✅8. A book set on an island.
Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane - Jan. 2nd
✅9. A book about or set in an ancient civilization.
Norse Mythology Volume 3 by Neil Gaiman - Mar. 15th
✅10. A book less than 230 pages long.
Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 3rd
🎴Tarot Cards🎴22/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tarot 2023
✅The Fool (vulnerable, naïve, adventurous, open, purity, innocence, risk)
✅The Magician (beginning, creation)
✅The High Priestess (secret knowledge, immobility, trust, ability to see through deceit)
✅The Empress (feminine power, fertility, abundance, nurture, love of home and family)
✅The Emperor (patriarchy, material power, protection)
✅The Hierophant (the Pope, authority, convention, strict lifestyle)
✅The Lovers (love, strong relationship, crossroads)
✅The Chariot (victory, conquest and control)
✅Strength (courage, confidence, passion, good over evil)
✅The Hermit (intelligence, education, quest for knowledge, enlightenment, self-reflection)
✅Wheel of Fortune (luck, chance, change)
✅Justice (hard work, sacrifices, balance, fairness, consequences)
✅The Hanged Man (letting go of the past, sacrifice)
✅Death (spiritual transformation, new beginnings, death)
✅Temperance (time, patience, self-control)
✅The Devil (temptation, indulgence in sensual pleasures)
✅The Tower (unforeseen and traumatic events)
✅The Star (creativity, hope, optimism, art, keep faith)
✅The Moon (present, future, changes)
✅The Sun (hope, energy, optimism, accomplishment)
✅Judgement (trial, consequences, rebirth, self-reflection)
✅The World (perfect, success, accomplishment)
🏅Goodreads Choice🏅 30/30
Book - Award - Year (🏆Winner, 🎉Nominee)
1. To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Scifi - 2019🎉
2. The Sentence - Fiction - 2021🎉
3. The Sun Is Also a Star - YA Fiction - 2016🎉
4. A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Science Fiction - 2021🎉
5. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks - Nonfiction - 2022🎉
6. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Graphic Novels - 2022🎉
7. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Memoir - 2022🎉
8. Wash Day Diaries - Graphic Novel - 2022🎉
9. Legends & Lattes - Fantasy - 2022🎉
10. The Crossover - Middlegrade - 2014🎉
11. Booked - Poetry - 2016🎉
12. Electric Idol - Romance - 2022🎉
13. Other Words for Home - Middlegrade - 2019🎉
14. Rebound - Poetry - 2018🎉
15. Fence, Vol. 1 - Graphic Novel - 2018🎉
16. Fence, Vol. 3 - Graphic Novel - 2019🎉
17. Fence, Vol. 4: Rivals - Graphic Novel - 2020🎉
18. She Memes Well - Humour - 2021🎉
19. Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day - Horror - 2017🎉
20. Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Memoir - 2019🎉
21. For the Wolf - Fantasy - 2021🎉
22. Solo - Poetry - 2017🎉
23. The Goblin Emperor - Fantasy - 2014🎉
24. The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion - Graphic Novel - 2019🎉
25. Between Shades of Gray - YA Fiction - 2011🎉
26. System Collapse - Scifi - 2023
27. The Marriage Portrait - Historical Fiction - 2022🎉
28. Bookshops & Bonedust - Fantasy - 2023🎉
29. A House with Good Bones - Horror - 2023🎉
30. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - Nonfiction - 2022🎉
Rereads
1. The Starless Sea - Fantasy - 2019🎉
2. A Deadly Education - Fantasy - 2020🎉
3. The Last Graduate - Fantasy - 2021🎉
4. The Golden Enclaves - Fantasy - 2022🎉
5. Lore Olympus: Volume One - Graphic Novel - 2021🏆
6. Shalador's Lady - Fantasy - 2010🎉
7. Twilight's Dawn - Fantasy - 2011🎉
8. Lore Olympus: Volume Two - Graphic Novel - 2022🎉
9. Under the Whispering Door - Fantasy - 2021🎉
10. Hunt the Stars - Science Fiction - 2022🎉
11. The Night Circus - Fantasy - 2011🎉
12. Beach Read - Romance - 2020🎉
13. Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - Graphic Novel - 2016🎉
14. Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - Graphic Novel - 2017🎉
15. Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven - Graphic Novel - 2018🎉
16. Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen - Graphic Novel - 2019🎉
17. Magic Bleeds - Fantasy - 2010🎉
18. Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild - Graphic Novel - 2020🎉
19. Magic Slays - Fantasy - 2011🎉
20. Gunmetal Magic - Fantasy - 2012🎉
21. Magic Rises - Fantasy - 2013🎉
22. Magic Breaks - Fantasy - 2014🎉
23. Magic Shifts - Fantasy - 2015🎉
24. Magic Binds - Fantasy - 2016🎉
25. Iron and Magic - Fantasy - 2018🎉
26. Magic Triumphs - Fantasy - 2018🎉
27. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Memoir - 2022🎉
2023 Nominees read before they were nominated
1. Love, Theoretically - Romance🎉
2. Happy Place - Romance🏆
3. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Fantasy🎉
4. Witch King - Fantasy🎉
5. Hell Bent - Fantasy🏆
6. In the Lives of Puppets - Scifi🏆
7. The Stolen Heir - YA Fantasy🎉
8. The Brothers Hawthorne - YA Fiction🎉
9. Check & Mate - YA Fiction🏆
10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - Nonfiction🏆
🧺Book Basket🧺 11/10
1. Shakespeare: Sonnets
2. Hospital Station
3. Star Surgeon
4. Is There Bacon in Heaven?: A Memoir
5. Backpacking Through Bedlam
6. Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
7. After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse
8. Sleep No More
9. Longbourn
10. Between Shades of Gray
11. The Innocent Sleep
🎨Cover Collage:🎨ATY
ATY Rejects
PS
Other New Reads
Rereads
👍Best/Worst👎Book of the Month Picks:
Best new stand alone fiction:
Best new series:
Best new books in old series:
Best new nonfiction:
Best new-to-me authors:
Becky Chambers - 3
Nicola Yoon
Ali Hassan
Hiro Arikawa
Durian Sukegawa
Ishle Park
Kwame Alexander - 5
Johnny Cash
Jasmine Warga
Dean Atta
C.S. Pacat - 5
Gu Byeong-mo
Richard Van Camp - 3
Arika Okrent
Hannah F. Whitten - 2
Reem Faruqi
Shaenon K. Garrity
Gerard Way - 4
Will Betke-Brunswick
Katherine Addison
T. Kingfisher - 2
Hiromu Arakawa - 11
Yuu Morikawa - 2
Tom Gauld
April Asher - 2
Sara Desai
Michael Schur
Books that disappointed me:
Books I didn't enjoy:
DNFs:
January
📕Total: 24
♻️Rereads: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 7
🎓YA: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 1
🐞Under 300 pages: 10
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 1
Best (new) book of the month:
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion
Runners up:
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
Lost in the Moment and Found
The Stolen Heir
The Backup Plan
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die
My least favourite book of the month:
Mad About You
Ratings:
🍧🍎Mad About You - ⭐⭐
♻️🆎🍎🐞Clean Sweep - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🐞Cryptid Club - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎴📝The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl - ⭐⭐⭐
🍎🎓🐞In Mercy, Rain - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐞Sweep in Peace - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🐞One Fell Sweep - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎴🎓🐞Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎👶🎓🐞Lost in the Moment and Found - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝Is This A Cookbook?: Adventures in the Kitchen - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰Sweep of the Blade - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎴📝Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰🎴📝Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧A Killing Frost - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰🍎🐞The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰🎓👶The Stolen Heir - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰📝Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎴📝A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰🎴🏅🐞To Be Taught, If Fortunate - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🐞🧺Shakespeare: Sonnets - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎴👶The Backup Plan - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧About That Kiss - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰🏅The Sentence - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🍎When Sorrows Come - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 1 - 5
🔹Week 2 - 6
🔹Week 3 - 2
🔹Week 4 - 9
🔹Week 5 - 2
February
📕Total: 20
♻️Rereads: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🎓YA: 3
🖍️Graphic Novels: 5
🐞Under 300 pages: 11
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Runners up:
Hell Bent
The Sun Is Also a Star
Is There Bacon in Heaven?: A Memoir
My least favourite book of the month:
Siren Queen
Ratings:
🆎📝🍁The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞Siren Queen - ⭐⭐
🅰️Lucky in Love - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🍁The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎴🖍️🐞Deadly Class, Volume 12: A Fond Farewell, Part Two - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🍎🖍️🐞And When She Opened the Closet, All The Clothes Were Polyester: A FoxTrot Collection - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎴👶Hell Bent - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎴🎓🏅The Sun Is Also a Star - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞🧺Hospital Station - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎴🐞🧺Star Surgeon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🎓🐞Bunnicula - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🍎Sweep of the Heart - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🖍️Zero's Journey - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐞Major Operation - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🍎🖍️🐞Norse Mythology, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Norse Mythology, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞🏅A Psalm for the Wild-Built - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🍁🐞Is There Bacon in Heaven?: A Memoir - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🏅Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks - ⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 5 - 1
🔹Week 6 - 6
🔹Week 7 - 5
🔹Week 8 - 7
🔹Week 9 - 1
March
📕Total: 22
♻️Rereads: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 1
🖍️Graphic Novels: 7
🐞Under 300 pages: 10
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs: 2
Best (new) book of the month:
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Runners up:
Magic Tides
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Backpacking Through Bedlam
My least favourite book of the month:
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Ratings:
♻️🅰️🎴🐘The Starless Sea - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🖍️🐞Heartless Prince - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎴🖍️📝🍁🏅Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️👶🧺Backpacking Through Bedlam - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🐞Friendsgiving: The Official Guide to Hosting, Roasting, and Celebrating with Friends - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Mind Changer - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎴🐞The Travelling Cat Chronicles - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🎴🏅A Deadly Education - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A FoxTrot Collection - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍎🖍️🐞👶Norse Mythology Volume 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🎴🏅The Last Graduate - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🍎Be the Serpent - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎴👶The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🖍️🐞Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything: A FoxTrot Collection - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️Final Diagnosis - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🐞Bloodlust & Bonnets - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🏅📝🍁Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞Magic Tides - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🐞🏅Wash Day Diaries - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅The Golden Enclaves - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 9 - 2
🔹Week 10 - 6
🔹Week 11 - 5
🔹Week 12 - 6
🔹Week 13 - 3
April
📕Total: 31
♻️Rereads: 10
📝Non-Fiction: 2
🎓YA: 6
🖍️Graphic Novels: 5
🐞Under 300 pages: 11
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
Booked
Runners up:
The Crossover
Mirror to Mirror
To Swoon and to Spar
Sweet Bean Paste
The Kinder Poison
My least favourite book of the month:
iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World
Ratings:
🆎🎴🐘👶The Queen’s Price - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🐞🏅Legends & Lattes - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎴🖍️🐞iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🍁🐞Tatouine - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️The Library of the Unwritten - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞Sweet Bean Paste - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞The Road Home - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🐞Angel & Hannah: A Novel in Verse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧At Last - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎓👶Mirror to Mirror - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎴🎓🖍️Spy x Family, Vol. 9 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️👶To Swoon and to Spar - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Daughter of the Blood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Heir to the Shadows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞Carnival - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐞Under the Mistletoe - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🖍️🏅Lore Olympus: Volume One - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Queen of the Darkness - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️Forever and a Day - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️The Invisible Ring⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓The Kinder Poison - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎Dreams Made Flesh - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞iZombie, Vol. 3: Six Feet Under and Rising⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🐞🏅The Crossover - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Tangled Webs - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎The Shadow Queen - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🏅Booked - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🏅Shalador's Lady - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts - ⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 14 - 5
🔹Week 15 - 8
🔹Week 16 - 7
🔹Week 17 - 10
🔹Week 18 - 1
May
📕Total: 24
♻️Rereads: 7
📝Non-Fiction: 6
🎓YA: 3
🖍️Graphic Novels: 5
🐞Under 300 pages: 8
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs: 1
Best (new) book of the month:
Rebound
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
Runners up:
Happy Place
Other Words for Home
Electric Idol
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems
My least favourite book of the month:
Ratings:
♻️🆎🏅Twilight's Dawn - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🖍️🏅Lore Olympus: Volume Two - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️Pride of Baghdad - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🏅Electric Idol - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🐞👶Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️Tropic of the Sea - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶Happy Place - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐞Fool's Gold - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Lost and Found Sisters - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🧺Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🖍️Lore Olympus: Volume Three - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶In the Lives of Puppets - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐞The Good Luck Sister - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎It Had to Be You - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Under the Whispering Door - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐞Violet Tendencies - ⭐⭐⭐
🎓🖍️🐞The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 6 - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🐘The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🐞Forever Words: The Unknown Poems - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🏅Other Words for Home - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🏅Rebound - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️The Archive of the Forgotten - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝👶🐞Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🐞This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 18 - 5
🔹Week 19 - 6
🔹Week 20 - 3
🔹Week 21 - 6
🔹Week 22 - 4
June
📕Total: 24
♻️Rereads: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 7
🎓YA: 5
🖍️Graphic Novels: 7
🐞Under 300 pages: 10
🐘Over 499 pages: 2
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
The Black Flamingo
Magic Claims
Runners up:
The Sweetheart List
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
Lore Olympus: Volume Four
Fence, Vol. 1
Fence, Vol. 2
Fence, Vol. 3
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
My least favourite book of the month:
Coyotes, Vol. 1
Ratings:
🆎🐞Rusted Veins - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓The Cruelest Mercy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎴📝Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎The God of Lost Words - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🐞Sera and the Royal Stars, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Hunt the Stars - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓The Black Flamingo - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🐞Coyotes, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐
🅰️👶🐞Magic Claims - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞🏅Fence, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝👶The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶The Sweetheart List - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝🐞What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🐘The Third Person - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝👶And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️👶Lore Olympus: Volume Four - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fence, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️Always on My Mind - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🏅🐞Fence, Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️An Unexpected Kind of Love - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🐞👶Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐘🏅The Night Circus - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🏅🐞Fence, Vol. 4: Rivals - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 22 - 2
🔹Week 23 - 4
🔹Week 24 - 7
🔹Week 25 - 6
🔹Week 26 - 5
July
📕Total: 24
♻️Rereads: 9
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 1
🖍️Graphic Novels: 7
🐞Under 300 pages: 16
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs:
Best (new) book of the month:
Capture the Sun
Runners up:
A Blanket of Butterflies
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
As I Enfold You in Petals
Fence, Vol. 5: Rise
Witch King
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
My least favourite book of the month:
Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 1: Walking the Path
Ratings:
♻️🅰️Eclipse the Moon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fence, Vol. 5: Rise - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐞Honor and Shadows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐞🧺After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse - ⭐⭐⭐
🆎👶Witch King - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🐞🏅She Memes Well - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Sera and the Royal Stars Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️👶Capture the Sun - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞🏅Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞👶Untethered Sky - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧The Forever Girl - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🐞The Old Woman with the Knife - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶Love, Theoretically - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🐞Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🐞Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 1: Walking the Path - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Love for Beginners - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧Magic Bites - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🖍️🍁🐞A Blanket of Butterflies (The Spirit of Denendeh, 1) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧♻️🏅Beach Read - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🐞Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️🖍️👶🍁🐞As I Enfold You in Petals - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐞Magic Burns - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🖍️🐞🏅Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🖍️🐞🏅Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 27 - 5
🔹Week 28 - 5
🔹Week 29 - 4
🔹Week 30 - 7
🔹Week 31 - 3
August
📕Total: 23
♻️Rereads: 10
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🎓YA: 0
🖍️Graphic Novels: 5
🐞Under 300 pages: 12
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 1
Best (new) book of the month:
For the Throne
Runners up:
For the Wolf
Psyche and Eros
My least favourite book of the month:
Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 2: Edge of Everything
Ratings:
🖍️🐞Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 2: Edge of Everything - ⭐⭐
🍧👶Psyche and Eros - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝🏅🐞Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🖍️🐞🏅Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧Magic Strikes - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🍁🐞The Moon of Letting Go: and Other Stories - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🖍️🐞🏅Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Magic Bleeds - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🐞Magic Mourns - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️The Lemon Sisters - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🐞Magic Dreams - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝🐞Naming Jack the Ripper - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🖍️🐞🏅Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️👶🐞Wild Cards: Now and Then - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🏅For the Wolf - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝👶🐞But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films - ⭐⭐⭐
(♻️)🅰️Small Magics - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎📝👶The Fresh Prince Project: How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️For the Throne - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝👶🐞Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶Between Us - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🏅Magic Slays - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Gunmetal Magic - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 31 - 4
🔹Week 32 - 7
🔹Week 33 - 4
🔹Week 34 - 5
🔹Week 35 - 3
September
📕Total: 31
♻️Rereads: 12
📝Non-Fiction: 2
🎓YA: 7
🖍️Graphic Novels: 8
🐞Under 300 pages: 15
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
Swing
The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor
Runners up:
Sleep No More
The Bootlegger Blues
Solo
Kin
Kith
Kind
My least favourite book of the month:
Wapke: Indigenous Science Fiction Stories
Ratings:
♻️🅰️🏅Magic Rises - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐞Magic Steals - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🖍️🐞Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Magic Breaks - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧👶Family Lore - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Magic Shifts - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🎓🐞Kin - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Kith - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🧺👶Sleep No More - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🍁🐞The Bootlegger Blues - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Kind - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧Almost Just Friends - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🧺Longbourn - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓Swing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️📝👶🐞Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🍁🐞Even Though I Knew the End - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🖍️🐞Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓Golden Girl - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Magic Binds - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎓🏅Solo - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Iron and Magic - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🖍️The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝👶🐘Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🏅Magic Triumphs - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🍁🐞Maria Chapdelaine - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️One Night In Edinburgh - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐞Magic Stars - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️🐞Persephone: Hades' Torment - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🐞The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🍧🐞👶Magic Tides - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🐞🍁Wapke: Indigenous Science Fiction Stories - ⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 35 - 1
🔹Week 36 - 7
🔹Week 37 - 11
🔹Week 38 - 5
🔹Week 39 - 7
October
📕Total: 24
♻️Rereads: 5
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 4
🖍️Graphic Novels: 11
🐞Under 300 pages: 14
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 2
Best (new) book of the month:
Thornhedge
Runners up:
The Goblin Emperor
Lore Olympus: Volume Five
A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
My least favourite book of the month:
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
Ratings:
♻️🍧Emma - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞iZombie, Vol. 4: Repossession - ⭐⭐⭐
🍧🖍️📝🐞A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧🎓🐞Fantastic Mr. Fox - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️👶🐞We Are Not Strangers - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️👶🐞Magic Claims - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🏅The Goblin Emperor - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️Once in a Lifetime - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞🏅The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🎓🐞👶Huda F Cares? - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️📝🐞Big Panda and Tiny Dragon - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️👶Lore Olympus: Volume Five - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️👶🐞Thornhedge - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🍁🐞Hotline - ⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️👶🐞The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🍧It's in His Kiss - ⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️Blood Heir - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍧📝Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🖍️🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Tales From The Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️🎓🏅🧺Between Shades of Gray - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️The Book Charmer - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 40 - 7
🔹Week 41 - 8
🔹Week 42 - 4
🔹Week 43 - 4
🔹Week 44 - 1
November
📕Total: 25
♻️Rereads: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 3
🎓YA: 12
🖍️Graphic Novels: 12
🐞Under 300 pages: 16
🐘Over 499 pages: 0
🛑DNFs: 1
Best (new) book of the month:
Check & Mate
Runners up:
System Collapse
The Innocent Sleep
Listen, Slowly
Spy x Family, Vol. 10
The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
My least favourite book of the month:
The Book Tour
Ratings:
🅰️🧺👶The Innocent Sleep - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🎓🖍️🐞Artie and the Wolf Moon - ⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️🎓👶The Brothers Hawthorne - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🖍️🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞The Book Tour - ⭐⭐
♻️🍧👶Sleep No More - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓👶Check & Mate - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 4 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️A Cup of Silver Linings - ⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️🖍️🎓🐞Spy x Family, Vol. 10 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🎓🐞Listen, Slowly - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🅰️🖍️🐞Mr. Villain's Day Off 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️📝🍁👶The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎📝🍁🏅🐞Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🍧🏅👶🐞System Collapse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞Mr. Villain's Day Off 02 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🆎He's So Fine - ⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️One in a Million - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 6 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️📝👶🐞How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 7 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 8 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🍧👶The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove - ⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 44 - 2
🔹Week 45 - 5
🔹Week 46 - 6
🔹Week 47 - 5
🔹Week 48 - 7
December
📕Total: 30
♻️Rereads: 3
📝Non-Fiction: 5
🎓YA: 8
🖍️Graphic Novels: 11
🐞Under 300 pages: 18
🐘Over 499 pages: 1
🛑DNFs: 0
Best (new) book of the month:
Revenge of the Librarians
Runners up:
The Singles Table
The Matzah Ball
All-New Firefly: The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 1
All-New Firefly: The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 2
All-New Firefly: The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 3
Not Your Ex's Hexes
A House with Good Bones
Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
My least favourite book of the month:
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Ratings:
🐞Merry Christmas, Baby - ⭐⭐⭐
📗🆎🐞Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - ⭐⭐⭐
📗🅰️🖍️📝🐞Revenge of the Librarians - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🆎🐞The Fall of the House of Usher - ⭐⭐
📗🆎🏅The Marriage Portrait - ⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 1 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Matzah Ball - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞👶The Gospel According to Jayne 2 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🐞The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - ⭐⭐
🖍️🐞👶The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 3 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🐞👶Loki - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Not the Witch You Wed⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 9 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝👶Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV - ⭐⭐⭐
📗🍧👶Not Your Ex's Hexes - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🆎👶🏅Bookshops & Bonedust - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🍧👶🐞🏅A House with Good Bones - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🅰️🐘The City of Brass - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎓🖍️🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 10 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🐞👶Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 11 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🍁The Singles Table - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝👶Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 12 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🎓The Secret Garden - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
♻️🆎🍁🐞Dave Cooks the Turkey - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📗🍧📝🏅How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 13 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🖍️🎓🐞Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 14 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔹Week 48 - 3
🔹Week 49 - 9
🔹Week 50 - 5
🔹Week 51 - 6
🔹Week 52 - 7
My Choice Awards:Best Author (Old)
🔹Shannon Chakraborty
🔹Ilona Andrews
🔹Seanan McGuire
🔹Marjorie M. Liu
🔹Martha Wells
Best Author (New)
🔹Kwame Alexander
🔹T. Kingfisher
🔹Matthew Perry
🔹Hiro Arikawa
🔹Katherine Addison
Best New-to-me Series
🔹The Crossover
🔹Kate Daniels Willmington Years
🔹Wilderwood
🔹Supernatural Singles
🔹The Dating Game
Best New-to-me Graphic Novel Series
🔹Fence
🔹The Gospel According to Jayne
🔹Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
🔹The Umbrella Academy
🔹Mr. Villain's Day Off
Best New to Me Single Issue Graphic Novel
🔹The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor
🔹Revenge of the Librarians
🔹Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
🔹The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers
🔹Lore Olympus: Volume Five
Best New Book in an Series I'm Already Reading
🔹Sleep No More
🔹Spy x Family, Vol. 10
🔹System Collapse
🔹Capture the Sun
🔹The Backup Plan
Best Nonfiction
🔹This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
🔹How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
🔹Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
🔹Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
🔹Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
Best Romance (Not already mentioned)
🔹Happy Place
🔹Check & Mate
🔹The Matzah Ball
🔹To Swoon and to Spar
🔹The Sweetheart List
Best YA (Not already mentioned)
🔹Swing
🔹The Black Flamingo
🔹Listen, Slowly
🔹Mirror to Mirror
🔹The Sun Is Also a Star
Best SFF (Not already mentioned)
🔹The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
🔹Thornhedge
🔹Bookshops & Bonedust
🔹The Goblin Emperor
🔹Lost in the Moment and Found
Best Fiction (All Other Genres)
🔹The Travelling Cat Chronicles
🔹Bootlegger Blues: A Play
🔹Sweet Bean Paste
🔹The Old Woman with the Knife
🔹The Marriage Portrait
Week 1 (Jan. 1st - Jan. 7th)First week over already. I started on a down note, but I enjoyed the rest of my reading.
Finished:
Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane - Jan. 2ndIt was a bit of a downer to start off with this, but I'm glad I did finish it. I still really like McFarlane's writing, but the subject matter was just such a downer and the romance felt tacked on and underwritten.
🍧1. A book you meant to read in 2022
🍎🕒8. A book set on an island.
Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 3rdI meant to get started on rereading the series during the Christmas break.
♻️🆎8. A book involving wolves or werewolves.
🍎🕒10. A book less than 230 pages long.
Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen - Jan 3rdI didn't love Andersen's original comic series, but I Loved Fangs. This was sort of in the middle. I just think that it didn't hang together as a full book very well. But it was funny and fun for what it was.
🍧5. A book with mythical creatures.
The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl by Melanie Chisholm - Jan. 5thWhen I first saw this book, I immediately thought of the Spice Girls prompt we had already voted onto the list. I also want to point out my ratings are not based on the worth of a book, just my emotional response. It was well written and I enjoyed it, but it was all about mental health struggles, so it was never going to get more than a 3.
🅰️10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" (Sporty)
🎴The Empress (Feminine power)
In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 6thI've been meaning to read this novelette since I heard about it, but with the new Wayward Children book out next week, I remembered and this was a good ay to come back into the series.
🍎🕒5. A book related to sheep or shepherds. (Alexis is a shepherdess)
In Progress:
Sweep in Peace
Shakespeare: Sonnets
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
The Shadow in the Glass
Week 2 (Jan. 8th - Jan. 14th)
Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 8thContinuing the reread of the series.
♻️🅰️24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy. (Spy)
One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 9thContinuing the reread of the series.
♻️🆎25. A book set during a holiday (Christmas)
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke - Jan. 11thI loved this movie but it's been ages since I saw it last. In some ways, I like it as a book even more than as a movie. It's just the book within a book angle that really resonates with me.
🍧42. A book based on a popular movie.
🎴Judgement (trial, consequences, rebirth)
Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 11thI don't always like the prequel stories in this series, but I loved this one.
🆎22. A book about crossing over to another world.
Is This A Cookbook?: Adventures in the Kitchen by Heston Blumenthal - Jan. 13thI've always enjoyed watching him on TV, but I'd never read any of his cookbooks, so I decided to try one out. His commentary was interesting and everything I like about him. The recipes on the other hand were either dead simple (Add kimchi to a grilled cheese sandwich), required ingredients I don't know where to find (Ground cricket powder?????) or were wayyyyyyyyy to fussy and too much work.
🆎15. A book where one of the senses plays an important part.
Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 14thContinuing the reread of the series.
♻️🅰30. A book related to a chess piece. (Knight)
Skeleton Song by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 14thThis was more a short story, so I don't count it for my books read numbers. I was excited to get Christopher's backstory, but there was barely any story there...
In Progress:
The Stolen Heir
The Matzah Ball
Shakespeare: Sonnets
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
The Shadow in the Glass
Week 3 (Jan. 15th - Jan. 21st)I read a lot, but I didn't finish that many, in part because I had computer/wifi issues and because I had a couple of funerals.
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Lance Rogoff - Jan. 15thRobin P mentioned this book and it just caught my imagination. My library had a copy available so I borrowed it right away. It was really interesting.
🍧50. A book with alliteration in the title.
🎴The Fool (Innocence, adventurous and risk)
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz - Jan. 18thI have loved Buffy from the first time I saw the movie, and then marathoning the series so far while I was going through first year university left me obsessed. Which is why the revelations about Joss were so heartbreaking. And this book perfectly encapsulates that - going over why it was so great and yet also not ignoring the bad and trying to navigate the now and separating the art of many by the bad actions of individuals.
🅰22. A book with a faceless person on the cover.
🎴The High Priestess (secret knowledge, immobility, trust, ability to see through deceit) (Seeing through deceit + character of Willow)
In Progress:
A Killing Frost
The Stolen Heir
Shakespeare: Sonnets
DNF
The Shadow in the Glass
It wasn't a bad book, it was just boring and I just couldn't bring myself to read anymore of it.
Week 4 (Jan. 22nd - Jan. 28th)With the read-a-thon on I got through a pile of books.
A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 22ndContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🍧35. A book about divorce.
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Jan. 22ndThis was a big surprise. The title jumped out at me in the library, and given it was short I figured it was worth a try for the read-a-thon. I picked it up to give it a try and didn't put it down until it was done. I wish that it had been slightly loner with more on the daughter's story.
🅰️52. A book with an unusual or surprising title.
🍎🕒3. A book with five words in the title. (because 2+3=5).
The Stolen Heir by Holly Black - Jan. 24thOf course I loved it, but it just wasn't as good as The Folk of Air trilogy.
🅰️30. A book related to a chess piece. (Rook/Castle)
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder - Jan. 24thThis was so much fun looking at the trappings of books, which I hadn't really thought about as much before.
🅰️6. A book where books are important.
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson - Jan. 25thMuch better than his last book, but a little too dry for me to truely love.
🍧11. A book about or set in Hollywood.
🎴The Magician (beginning, creation) Creation
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - Jan. 25thEverybody on my various groups have been talking about Chambers and so I decided to give this a try. I loved it and have now added her other books to my TBR.
🅰️38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover.
🎴The Moon (present, future, changes) The Moon + future
Shakespeare: Sonnets by William Shakespeare - Jan. 26thI took my time wit this one and only read a few poems a day, which made me appreciate it more.
🍧26. A short book from your TBR.
The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 27thThe Wildstone books are still my favorite, but a Shalvis book is always good for a laugh as well as romance with a side of family drama.
🍧12. A book published in the first half of 2023.
🎴The Lovers (love, strong relationship, crossroads) Romance + crossroads+ strong relationships
About That Kiss by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 28thThis was on the library sale table and in decent condition so I bought it, not intending to read it again right away. But then I needed a cheer up book last night, and it was still sitting out.
♻️🍧28. A book you bought secondhand.
In Progress:
The Sentence
Week 5 (Jan. 29th - Feb. 4th)Now that the read-a-thon's over, my list of finished books is back to normal this week. I am noticing a hollywood/entertainment theme going on in my reading as of late, which was completely unplanned.
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - Jan. 29thThis started slow and I almost gave up, but I'm glad I stuck with it, even though the subject matter wasn't the happiest.
🅰️5. A book with 4 or more colours on the cover.
When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 30thContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🅰️7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title.
🍎🕒7. A title that starts with W.
The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy by Paul Myers - Feb. 1stI've never been the biggest Kids in the Hall fan, but somehow I saw this in the library and couldn't walk away.
🆎14. A book related to comedy
In Progress
Lucky in Love
Siren Queen
Week 6 (Feb. 5th - Feb. 11th)
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo - Feb. 5thI think I have to accept that magic realism is not my genre, even if there are a few notable exceptions. I wanted to like this, and the writing style was great, but nothing happened. I wanted it to either lean into the magic more, or be a more straight forward historical fiction.
🅰️41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis - Feb. 5thThis was not the best and the ending seemed a little too rushed, but I still enjoy these books for what they are, and am almost through reading Shalvis' backlist.
🅰️16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Present
The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir by Linda Schuyler - Feb. 6thI grew up watching Degrassi, but except for the first few seasons of Next Gen, I haven't watched any of the later shows. But it was fun to read about the behind the scenes stuff.
🍧21. A book set in the decade you were born.
Deadly Class, Volume 12: A Fond Farewell, Part Two by Rick Remender - Feb. 8thThis is the last book in the series, and it ended well. Given it could be depressing and bleak, the fact it ended on a bittersweet yet hopeful note was nice.
🅰️28. A book that is dark
🎴The Hermit (education, self-reflection)
And When She Opened the Closet, All The Clothes Were Polyester: A FoxTrot Collection by Bill Amend - Feb. 10thI had forgotten how funny these books could be.
🅰️7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title.
🍎6. A book with flames on the cover or in the title.
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo - Feb. 11thThe first book in this series was a little rough, but this was so good. It got the balance of darkness to light, didn't get bogged down in flashbacks, and provided more depth to a bunch more characters, and left me excited for how it will end.
🍧24. A book with a rabbit on the cover.
🎴The Devil (temptation, indulgence in sensual pleasures)
In Progress
The Sun Is Also a Star
Be the Serpent
Week 7 (Feb. 12th - Feb. 18th)I've been in mostly reread mode with a side of nonfiction.
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon - Feb. 12thI loved this. It was fast paced and hopeful. A sweet little YA romance. I'm so glad it was picked for the book of the month for Popsugar.
🍧43. A book that takes place entirely in one day.
🎴The Sun (hope, optimism) & Sun in title.
Hospital Station by James White - Feb. 14thI bought a omnibus that combined the first 3 Sector General books in one, but I couldn't remember if I'd read them or not. When the question about underrated authors came up, I thought of him, and picked up the book. And it turns out I hadn't read these before, so I'll get books out of my TBR. And yes, given this was actually a bunch of short stories patched together, it was overly repetitive. And some things haven't dated well from the 60's. But not as much as you might think.
🅰️33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923.
Star Surgeon by James White - Feb. 16thContinuing the reread of the series - well, what I can. the library doesn't seem to have books 4 - 9.
🆎12. A book that is the 2nd or 3rd in a series.
🎴The Star in title
Bunnicula by James Howe & Deborah Howe - Feb. 16thI loved these books as a kid, so when my sister and mom both read it, I had to do a reread. I loved how there were some allusions I probably hadn't noticed when I was a kid that I appreciated as an adult.
♻️🍧24. A book with a rabbit on the cover.
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington - Feb. 18thI have so many books sitting ready to go, but I ending up going through my library TBR and saw this, it was available, and so everything else got pushed. I have read so many WW2 books, and yet I'm always finding something that has info that surprises me.
🅰️24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy. (Tailor)
In Progress
Major Operation
Sweep of the Heart
Be the Serpent
Week 8 (Feb. 19th - Feb. 25th)The week started out good, but ended with me getting sick, so I got this done before the weekend.
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews - Feb. 19thThis finishes off me reread of the series.
♻️🅰️48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story.
🍎2. The 23rd book on a list. (23rd novel listed on the Ilona Andrews Website list of their books)
Zero's Journey by D.J. Milky - Feb. 20thIt was fine, but there wasn't much of a story.
🍧46. A book with a pet character.
Major Operation by James White - Feb. 21stSo I had read this one before, and I'd be all set to reread book 4, but I can't find it anywhere.... grrrr.
♻️🅰️18. A book related to science
Norse Mythology, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman - Feb. 22ndThis was even better than the regular book. It distilled the stories down, and the artwork was great.
🅰️35. A book with a school subject in the title.
🍎4. A book based on Norse mythology.
Norse Mythology, Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman - Feb. 22ndSee above.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - Feb. 23rdI loved the last book by Chambers I read, so I wanted to read more by that author. I am even more blown away by this one.
🍧19 A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge: A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character.
Is There Bacon in Heaven?: A Memoir by Ali Hassan - Feb. 24thI wasn't that familiar with Hassan's comedy, but I will have to change that because this was hilarious!
🍧2. A book you bought from an independent bookstore. (My Library's Book Sale Table)
In Progress
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Week 9 (Feb. 26th - Mar. 4th)I ended up marathoning Downton Abbey, so I didn't get as much reading done this week.
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe - Feb. 27thThis was a disappointment. Some of the articles were really good, but I wish I had known it was just a money grab packaging a bunch of his previous magazine articles instead of a new book.
🆎1. A winner or nominee from the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards.
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - Mar. 2ndI love this book so much!!! It hits me differently each time.
♻️🅰️12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies. (All 3)
Heartless Prince by Angela De Vito - Mar. 3rdThis was fine. The artwork was nice, but story and character wise, it was more undelivered promise than anything.
In Progress
Mind Changer
Give Me Some Truth
They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters
Week 10 (Mar. 5th - Mar. 11th)So a bunch of library holds all came in at once, and instead of reading the books I already had out, I just ploughed through the new stuff. Whatever.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton - Mar. 5thIt was well done, but given the subject matter, I can't say I enjoyed it.
🅰️1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y. (Alberta)
🎴The Emperor (patriarchy, material power)
Backpacking Through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire - Mar. 6thI somehow managed to get a copy of this early. I love the characters and the series, but this was very light on plot, so it mostly felt like a filler book.
🅰️37. A book with the theme of returning home.
Friendsgiving: The Official Guide to Hosting, Roasting, and Celebrating with Friends by Shoshana Stopek - Mar. 7thIt was fun, with lots of quotes but the recipes were nothing special.
🍧47. A book about a holiday that's not Christmas.
Mind Changer by James White - Mar. 7thSo I had read this one before. But I still enjoyed the reread.
♻️🅰️17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Future.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - Mar. 9thThis left me sobbing, but in a good way.
🆎11. A book related to something lucky. (Lucky Number 7)
🎴Death (new beginnings, death)
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers - Mar. 10thI liked this one slightly less than the first, but it was still lovely.
🅰️20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel.
DNF
They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters
It was interesting, but dry and I'm just not in the mood. This is why I don't try to force myself to read for theme months.
In Progress
A Deadly Education
Give Me Some Truth
Week 11 (Mar. 12th - Mar. 18th)With all the ads for Shadow and Bone Season 2, I was feeling like a reread of The Six of Crows duology, but instead I ended up rereading the Scholomance series instead. But now my library is going to take back some of my books and I haven't finished them yet!😧
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik - Mar. 12thI love this series and this book especially.
♻️🆎10. A book involving aspects of language, linguistics, or the spoken word.
🎴Justice ( sacrifices, balance, fairness, consequences)
Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A FoxTrot Collection by Bill Amend - Mar. 14thIt was good for a laugh.
Norse Mythology Volume 3 by Neil Gaiman - Mar. 15thAs I said before, I like this in graphic novel format better then the prose format.
🍎🕒9. A book about or set in an ancient civilization.
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik - Mar. 15thContinuing my reread of the trilogy.
♻️🆎22. A book about crossing over to another world.
🎴The Tower
Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire - Mar. 17thAnd now I've finished me reread of the series. Even sadder knowing what was going to happen before it did, and just as frustrating to end on a cliffhanger.🙄
♻️🅰️30. A book related to a chess piece. (Queen)
🍎1. A book involving genetics and/or genealogy.
In Progress
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Winners
Give Me Some Truth
Week 12 (Mar. 19th - Mar. 25th)So there's a good chance Amina's going to be my book of the month pick. I normally not to pick until the end of the month, but this was just so good. It even managed to be better than the new Kate Daniels book.😮
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty - Mar. 20thThis was a bit slow to start, but then it got sooooooooo good. As good as the Daevabad trilogy, but without Dara.👍
🅰️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list:
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs. (Taurus) The 4th lunar house, which corresponds to Taurus, is a major part of the plot.
🎴The Chariot (Or in this case, the ship)
Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything: A FoxTrot Collection by Bill Amend - Mar. 21stI had read this one before, but it was still fun to reread.
Final Diagnosis by James White - Mar. 23rdSo I hadn't read this one before which was nice, but who knew I'd have a second book about a shepherd within the first 3 months of this year??
🅰️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list:
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs. (Cancer)
Bloodlust & Bonnets by Emily McGovern - Mar. 23rdThis started out good, but then it didn't go anywhere really. But it was funny, and I still enjoyed it.
🍧4. A debut book.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry - Mar. 24thThis was well done, but a tough read.
🍧8. A celebrity memoir.
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews - Mar. 25thI never wanted it to end!
🍧44. A book that was self-published.
DNF
Give Me Some Truth
I loved Eric Gansworth's other book, but this one just wasn't my cup of tea. I really tried because it was perfect for a bunch of prompts, but I just wasn't feeling it.
In Progress
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
The Winners
Week 13 (Mar. 26th - Apr. 1st)
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser & Robyn Smith - Mar. 28thIt was fine but forgetable.
🍧17. A book with a love triangle.
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman - Mar. 29thThis was a mixed bag. Some of the stories were great, some where incoherent messes.
🅰️2. A book by an author you read in 2022.
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik - Mar. 31stAnd I've now finished off my reread of the series.
♻️🅰️13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover.
In Progress
Legends & Lattes
The Queen’s Price
Week 14 (Apr. 2nd - Apr. 8th)I held off starting a bunch of books before the read-a-thon, but I still managed to get through a few before I cut myself off.
The Queen’s Price by Anne Bishop - Apr. 3rdThis was better than the last one, but I'm still not completely happy that the happy ending the series had has been completely destroyed so the story can continue.
🆎5. Two books with words that are opposites in the titles: Book 1. (Queen)
🎴The Hanged Man (letting go of the past, sacrifice)
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree - Apr. 3rdThis was fine. Cute characters and it did eventually have a plot, but it was not the heartwaming masterpiece I was promised.
🍧41. A book written during NaNoWriMo.
iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World by Chris Roberson - Apr. 5thI loved the TV series, so I wanted to read the book it was based off of. Turns out, the book has almost nothing to do with the show. The book was fine, but it paled in comparison to the brilliance of the TV show.
🍧6. A book about a forbidden romance.
🎴The World (World in title)
Tatouine by Jean-Christophe Réhel - Apr. 7thThis was a weird little book. Hilarious yet depressing, tough to take a lot of, but hard to put down... I was simultaneously repelled and attracted at the same time. I picked it because it's the current One Eread Canada book, and I was going to use it for the translated book but it worked out perfectly for the disability prompt.
🅰️11. A book about a person/character with a disability. (Cystic Fibrosis)
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith - Apr. 8thI've been meaning to reread this series for a while now.
♻️🅰️44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal.
In Progress
Sweet Bean Paste
Week 15 (Apr. 9th - Apr. 15th)With the read-a-thon on, I got through a pile of books. Some I had planned, some were library holds that came in that I couldn't wait for, and some were just impulse rereads.
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa - Apr. 9thThis made me feel a lot. Anger, joy, sadness, hope.
🅰️36. A book that has been translated from another language.
The Road Home by Jill Shalvis - Apr. 9thI needed a book with a title that starts with R for a monthly challenge in another group, so I did a quick lookup to see if there were any books that started with R by my fav authors available and this was the first that popped up. Romance novellas tend to be way too instalove for my tastes most of the time, and this was particularly guilty of that, but I still enjoyed it well enough.
🅰️34. A novella.
Angel & Hannah: A Novel in Verse by Ishle Park - Apr. 10thI picked this out purely because it was a short book (for the read-a-thon) told in verse. And it turned out to be a wonderful surprise that I could have used for a ton of challenges.
🅰️4. A book with an interracial relationship.
At Last by Jill Shalvis - Apr. 10thThese books always make me laugh and are a nice little light read.
🍧15. A book with a song lyric as its title.
Mirror to Mirror by Rajani LaRocca - Apr. 11thWell, I'd loved her last book, so I knew I was probably going to love this one too, but it just got me.
🆎18. A book with an echo.
Spy x Family, Vol. 9 by Tatsuya Endo - Apr. 12thAnother issue, another journey of laughs.
🅰️14. A book with a con, deception, or fake.
🎴Strength (courage, confidence, passion, good over evil)
To Swoon and to Spar by Martha Waters - Apr. 13thThis is the best one in the series yet! The fact that the characters bond over a love of Jane Austen is just bonus.😉
🅰️15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Past.
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop - Apr. 15thThe newest book made me want to do a reread of the series. And despite all the other things I have to read, this was what I was feeling like.
♻️🅰️9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W. (William L Crawford Fantasy Award)
In Progress
Heir to the Shadows
The Archive of the Forgotten
Carnival
Week 16 (Apr. 16th - Apr. 22nd)
Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop - Apr. 16thContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🅰️28. A book that is dark.
Carnival by Una McCormack - Apr. 16thI finally finished this! I started last August, but then a bunch of other books came in, so I set it to the side, and never managed to get back to it until this read-a-thon, even though finially finishing it was one of my goals for the last 2 read-a-thons! As far as Firefly tie-in books, it wasn't the best, but it was still pretty good.
🅰️39. A western.
Under the Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis - Apr. 18thI'm making my way through this series. It was better than most romance novellas, because it wasn't about instalove.
Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe - Apr. 18thI was in the library with time to kill and for once I didn't have a book with me. This was on the shelf, so I picked it up and read it while I waited.
♻️🅰️41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists.
Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop - Apr. 20thContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🅰️47. A book related to a geometric shape. (Triangle)
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai by Jim Colucci - Apr. 20thI saw this in the library and couldn't resist. It brought me back to my childhood, watching this with my Mom.
🍧7. A book with "Girl" in the title.
Forever and a Day by Jill Shalvis - Apr. 22ndContinuing my read through of the series.
🅰️45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books.
In Progress
The Invisible Ring
Week 17 (Apr. 23rd - Apr. 29th)So it was a nother heavy reading week. Normally my reading drops off a bit after a read-a-thon, but this time it seems to have grown.
The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop - Apr. 23rdContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🅰️14. A book with a con, deception, or fake.
iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire by Chris Roberson - Apr. 23rdStill not as good as the show, still ugly artwork, but I'm still reading.
The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae - Apr. 23rdMy sister has been on me to read this series, so I decided to check it out. So far, so good.
🍧29. A book your friend recommended.
Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop - Apr. 24thContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🆎21. A book related to dreams or dreaming.
iZombie, Vol. 3: Six Feet Under and Rising by Chris Roberson - Apr. 24thWell, I'm now through all the books I'd got from the library, so I have to decide if I'm going to request any more or just DNF the series, and I'm really ambivalent about it.
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander - Apr. 26thMy sister recommended this series to me and I borrowed it for the read-a-thon, but then I didn't get to it. I have no idea why. This blew me away.
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs. (Gemini)
🍧20. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023.
Tangled Webs by Anne Bishop - Apr. 27thContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🅰️10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities". (Scary)
The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop - Apr. 28thContinuing my reread of the series.
♻️🆎20. A book about "a fish out of water".
Booked by Kwame Alexander - Apr. 28thThis blew the first book out of the water. It was so good! I was thinking it was going to be hard to pick just one book for best of the month, but now there is a clear winner.
🍧35. A book about divorce.
Shalador's Lady by Anne Bishop - Apr. 29thContinuing me reread of the series.
♻️🍧23. A book with a map.
In Progress
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Week 18 (Apr. 30th - May 6th)
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara - Apr. 30thI love a good linguistics book, and this was fun, although it was a bit technical.
🍧25. A book with just text on the cover.
Twilight's Dawn by Anne Bishop - May 3rdI've decided to stop my reread of the series here, with the original happy ending.
♻️🆎5. Two books with words that are opposites in the titles: Book 1.
Lore Olympus: Volume Two by Rachel Smythe - May 3rdContinuing the reread of the series before book 4 arrives.
♻️🆎12. A book that is the 2nd or 3rd in a series.
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan - May 3rdThis wrecked me. I knew going in it wasn't going to have a happy ending, but it still was such a gut punch when the end finally came.
🅰️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list:
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs. (Leo)
Electric Idol by Katee Robert - May 5thI love Greek myth retellings, and this was good, even though I prefer my romances to be closed door.
🍧10. A romance with a plus size MC.
Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances by David Thomson - May 6thThis wasn't as good as his last book. It meandered and wasn't that focused.
🅰️19. A book related to the arts.
DNF
The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex JenningsI started it, but I'm just not feeling it.
In Progress
Happy Place
In the Lives of Puppets
Week 19 (May 7th - May 13th)
Tropic of the Sea by Satoshi Kon - May 7thThis was okay. I thought the cover was pretty, my sister liked it and it was perfect for the prompt, but I was expecting more.
🅰️23. A book with a body of water in the title.
Happy Place by Emily Henry - May 7thI loved it!!!! Henry makes me laugh every time.
🍧3. A book about a vacation.
Fool's Gold by Jaye Wells - May 8thIt was a nice to be back in the world and have a bit of a prequel, but I was left feeling like the story could have been so much more.
Lost and Found Sisters by Jill Shalvis - May 9thI felt like rereading this.
♻️🆎6. Two books with words that are opposites in the titles: Book 2.
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton - May 11thI saw someone's post about this and it reminded me it was sitting on my nightstand. It was fun, although tough to read at times.
🍧28. A book you bought secondhand.
Lore Olympus: Volume Three by Rachel Smythe - May 12thAnd now I'm finished my reread.
♻️🅰️2. A book by an author you read in 2022.
In Progress
In the Lives of Puppets
It Had to Be You
Week 20 (May 14th - May 20th)A slower week because I went to visit my Grandma.
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune - May 16thIt wasn't as good as his other books, but I still enjoyed it. It was too much characters being quirky and not enough plot, but then again, it could have just been that it was a dystopian scifi book and that is what through me off.
🍧22. A book with a queer lead.
The Good Luck Sister by Jill Shalvis - May 16thAfter rereading Wildstone 1, I wanted to reread this companion novella.
♻️🅰️34. A novella.
It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis - May 19thAnd I'm continuing to make my way through Shalvis' back catelogue.
🆎19. A romance novel.
In Progress
Under the Whispering Door
The Cruelest Mercy
Week 21 (May 21st - May 27th)I felt like this was another slow week, but I did actually finish 6. I've also been busy marathoning The Good Place.
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune - May 22ndAfter reading his newest book, I felt like rereading this one. The fact I needed a book that started with a U for a spell out challenge didn't hurt either.
♻️🅰️42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter.
Violet Tendencies by Jaye Wells - May 22ndThis was more a cut scene than a story.
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 6 by Cassandra Clare - May 23rdI like these books in graphic novel format better.
The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series by Jessica Radloff - May 24thI loved the show, so when I saw this, I had to read it immediately.
🆎4. A book related to Hollywood.
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash - May 25thBoth my sister and Mom read this first, and they were only so-so on it, but I loved it, so I'm glad I read it.
🆎2. A book of poetry or free verse.
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga - May 26thI really do love novels in verse. I just wish there were more adult options.
🅰️9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W. (Walter Dean Myers Award nominee, (Middlegrade)
In Progress
The Archive of the Forgotten
Week 22 (May 28th - June 3rd)
Rebound by Kwame Alexander - May 28thThe rhythm in the poetry is just so magical sometimes, and the the heart and emotion takes over...
🍧33. A book about an athlete/sport.
The Archive of the Forgotten by A.J. Hackwith - May 29thWell, after a month and a half, I finally went back and finished this. I just kept picking up other books instead..
♻️🅰️6. A book where books are important.
Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs by Andrew Rannells - May 31st.So I'm on a nonfiction kick, and when I went to the library this was on the new book shelf, so it was just a total impulse read. It made me laugh.
🅰️10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities". (Baby - baby on cover)
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas - May 31stThis was interesting and fun.
🅰️18. A book related to science.
Rusted Veins by Jaye Wells - June 2ndAfter the last short story was such a disappointment, it took me a while to finish off this one, and I wish I hadn't taken so long, because this one was actually worth while.
🆎25. A book set during a holiday. (Halloween)
The Cruelest Mercy by Natalie Mae - June 3rdIt was good, and very funny, but I just wasn't in the mood for YA love triangle angst, so I struggled to get through it.
🍧23. A book with a map.
In Progress
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
Week 23 (June 4th - 10th)Well, Summer is here, so I'm craving nonfiction. Why that's my go to beach read, I don't know, but there it is.
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara - June 6thThis was even better than The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick. In the first book, O'meara put all the humour in the footnotes. This was more evenly paced, while still being just as interesting.
🆎16. A book about colonialism or imperialism.
🎴Temperance (time, patience, self-control)
The God of Lost Words by A.J. Hackwith - June 7thI remember feeling slightly let down by how this series ended, but now reading it together with the full trilogy, I was much happier.
♻️🆎23. A book with a cover you consider to be beautiful.
Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor by Travis M. Andrews - June 8thThe writing was a little too much - the author was always going off on tangents and just gave the impression of trying too hard to be witty.. I think their style probably works great in a short article but a whole book of it without a break is another story.
🅰️40. A book with a full name in the title.
Sera and the Royal Stars, Vol. 1 by Jon Tsuei - June 9thI really enjoyed this. The artwork was lovely and I found the take on mythology cool.
🅰️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list:
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs. (Scorpio)
In Progress
Hunt the Stars
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
An Unexpected Kind of Love
Week 24 (June 11th - 17th)I had some really fantastic reads this past week.
Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik - June 11thI decided to do a reread of the series before the next book drops later this month.
♻️🅰️30. A book related to a chess piece. (Pawn)
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta - June 12thMy sister recommended this because she knows how much I love novels in verse. It was so worth it.
🅰️26. A book related to pride.
Coyotes, Vol. 1 by Sean Lewis - June 13thI was in the library with time to kill, so I picked this up. And once I started, I had to finish. But the story was a mess and it was barely coherent at times.
🅰️10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities". (Scary)
Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews - June 14thOh soooooo good. Kate is back to being her old self, messing with people in the best way.(I'm a little teapot) I really have to do a reread of the series now.
🅰️48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story.
Fence, Vol. 1 by C.S. Pacat - June 14thMy sister has been after me to read this series for a while now, and I'm glad I got to it. It was funny and sweet.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann - June 15thIt was interesting, but a little dry.
🅰️43. A book that involves a murder.
The Sweetheart List by Jill Shalvis - June 17thThis now takes second place for my favorite Jill Shalvis book.
🍧31. A book about a family.
In Progress
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
Love, Theoretically
Week 25 (June 18th - 24th)
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be by John McWhorter - June 18thI always enjoy a good linguistic book.
🍧48. A book that features two languages.
The Third Person by Emma Grove - June 19thThis was a tough read, but it hooked me.
🅰️50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt. (NPR list)
And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race by María Elena Fernández - June 21stWhen I saw this on the shelf of new books at the library, I knew I had to read it.
🅰️10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities". (Ginger - The name of one of the Queens)
Lore Olympus: Volume Four by Rachel Smythe - June 22ndAnd now I have to go back to waiting for more....
🍧14. A modern retelling of a classic.
Fence, Vol. 2 by C.S. Pacat - June 23rdContinuing to make my way through this series.
Always on My Mind by Jill Shalvis - June 24thContinuing to make my way through Shalvis' back catalogue. This one was funny, and it actually managed to have a mystery where the solution wasn't obvious, but the MC frustrated me a little.
🅰️29. A book that is light.
In Progress
The Night Circus
Love, Theoretically
Week 26 (June 25th - July 1st)How are we already half way through the year already???
Fence, Vol. 3 by C.S. Pacat - June 26thThese things just keep getting better.
An Unexpected Kind of Love by Hayden Stone - June 27thThis was basically a MM Nottinghill. And while it was nothing that special, the nods to Nottinghill always made me smile.
🅰️8. An author's debut book.
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez - June 29thThis was a nice contrast to the other book about RuPaul's Drag Race I read, giving more of a macro history.
🅰️30. A book related to a chess piece. (Queen)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - June 29thI was planning on a reread, but then I couldn't find my copy. It was driving me nuts, but then I was at a book sale and I found a lovely copy that was basically mint condition, so I bought it and read it right away. So I will probably finally find my copy in the next week or so.😁
♻️🍧41. A book written during NaNoWriMo.
Fence, Vol. 4: Rivals by C.S. Pacat - June 30thI am so happy I got around to reading this series finally.
In Progress
Eclipse the Moon
Witch King
Around the Year in 52 Books
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Challenges:
📕Books Read: 302/250 Finished Nov. 5th
🅰️ATY: 75/75 Link Finished Nov. 16th
🆎ATY Rejects: 25/25 Link Finished Dec. 3rd
🍧Popsugar: 50/50 Link Finished Oct. 3rd
🍎Nadine's mini-challenges: 10/10 Link Finished Mar. 17th
🎴Tarot Card: 22/22 Link Finished July 23rd
🏅Goodreads Choice: 30/30 Link Finished Dec. 30th
🧺Book Basket: 11/10 Link Finished Oct. 27th
💭My Plan: 60%
Stats:
♻️Rereads: 79
📝Nonfiction: 50
🎓YA/Middle Grade: 54
🍁Can Lit: 18
👶Published in 2023: 57
🖍️Graphic Novel/Manga/Comic: 84
🐞Short (>300): 155
🐘Long (>499): 7
Rating Breakdown:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 84
⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 132
⭐⭐⭐ - 79
⭐⭐ - 7
⭐ - 0
🛑(DNF) - 8
🧮Author Stats:
# of authors - 157
# of new-to-me authors - 98
Most Read Authors: (5 book minimum)
Ilona Andrews - 27
Jill Shalvis - 21
Hiromu Arakawa - 14
Anne Bishop - 10
Seanan McGuire - 10
Marjorie M. Liu - 9
James White - 5
C.S. Pacat - 5
Kwame Alexander - 5
Rachel Smythe - 5
Neil Gaiman - 5
Monthly Summary
January - 24 total.
February - 20 total.
March - 22 total.
April - 31 total.
May - 24 total.
June - 24 total.
July - 24 total.
August - 24 total.
September - 31 total.
October - 24 total.
November - 25 total.
December - 30 total.
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