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List of read books:Mt. Ararat:
📕1. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun 🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕2. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕3. Krvavá svatba 🐙🐙🐙
📕4. Nejrudější růže rozkvétá 🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕5. Dcera sochaře 🐙🐙🐙
📕6. Sister Outsider 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕7. We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕8. Paní jezera 🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕9. Romantic Outlaws 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕10. The Priory of the Orange Tree 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
11. The Intimacy Experiment 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
12. Worth Her Weight in Gold 🐙🐙🐙
13. River of Teeth 🐙🐙🐙
14. Taste of Marrow 🐙🐙🐙
15. Two Scoops Of Hellfire 🐙
16. Something Fabulous 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
17. Bringing Down the Duke 🐙🐙
18. Born in a Second Language 🐙🐙
19. Harrow the Ninth 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
20. Elatsoe 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
21. The Empress of Salt and Fortune 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
22. Mooncakes 🐙🐙🐙
23. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women 🐙🐙🐙🐙
24. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance 🐙🐙🐙🐙
25. Claws and Contrivances 🐙🐙🐙
26. The Witchwood Knot 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
27. A Rogue of One's Own 🐙🐙🐙
28. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
29. The House of Shattered Wings 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
30. Ella Enchanted 🐙🐙
31. Portrait of a Scotsman 🐙🐙🐙
32. Bride 🐙🐙🐙🐙
33. Forbidden Notebook 🐙🐙
34. The Black God's Drums 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
35. Hunting Monsters 🐙🐙
36. Pyromancy for Beginners 🐙🐙🐙
37. The Salt Grows Heavy 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
38. TJ Powar Has Something to Prove 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
39. Uncommonly Verdant 🐙🐙
40. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
41. No Man's Land 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
42. The Broken Heavens 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
43. A Day of Fallen Night 🐙🐙🐙
44. Through the Eye of the Needle 🐙🐙🐙
45. Mary Poppins Comes Back 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
46. Out on a Limb 🐙🐙🐙
47. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 🐙🐙🐙
48. Horror: A Very Short Introduction 🐙🐙
Starting on Mt. Everest!
49. The Kissing of Kissing 🐙🐙
50. Stalked by the Kraken 🐙🐙🐙
51. Thief Liar Lady 🐙🐙
52. Vampires of El Norte 🐙🐙🐙🐙
53. The Sun and the Void 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
54. Both Feet in the Grave 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
55. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human 🐙🐙🐙🐙
56. Feed Them Silence 🐙🐙🐙🐙
57. Testing Pandora 🐙🐙🐙🐙
58. Tone of Voice 🐙🐙🐙🐙
59. The Emperor's Soul 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
60. Sweet Berries 🐙
61. Fanny, A Mansfield Park Story 🐙🐙
62. Nettle & Bone 🐙🐙🐙
63. The House of Binding Thorns 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
64. Iron Widow 🐙🐙🐙🐙
65. Bryony and Roses 🐙🐙🐙
66. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 🐙🐙🐙
67. All the Hidden Paths 🐙🐙🐙🐙
68. Violet Made of Thorns 🐙🐙🐙🐙
69. The Dragon's Promise 🐙🐙🐙🐙
70. Deceived by the Gargoyles 🐙🐙🐙
71. Untethered Sky 🐙🐙🐙
72. The Left Hand of Darkness 🐙🐙🐙🐙
📕 73. Northanger Abbey 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Currently: 288 🐙
Books on my physical TBR that I want to get to first:
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy
Wide Sargasso Sea
Orlando
Kniha o městě dam
Mt. Ararat:The Intimacy Experiment ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2021
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
I didn't really love the first book in the duology, but over the years I talked myself into thinking that I was just in a funk when I read it, turns out that the author's style might not just be for me.
Worth Her Weight in Gold ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my tbr since 2023
📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙
Loved this, amazing short-story!
River of Teeth ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙
I'm really falling in love with Sarah Gailey. This was great!
Taste of Marrow ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📜->🐙🐙🐙
I liked the first book in the duology better but this was still pretty amazing. Second series in a year finished! That really makes me feel good about myself 🤭
Two Scoops Of Hellfire ⭐⭐⭐,5 On my TBR since 2022
📮 -> 🐙
Kimberly Lemming is a good time, even though I am wondering if I shouldn't give up on her work since I always end up frustrated with it just a little bit. I guess not, since I have two more of her books on my tbr...
Something Fabulous ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2021
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
This was completely ridiculous and I loved it so much! Now only if GR stopped glitching and let me post my review.
Bringing Down the Duke ⭐⭐⭐⭐On my TBR since 2023
🧠📮 -> 🐙🐙
Pretty amazing, I didn't love one of the tropes it uses toward the end though.
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Owned since 2023
📚📕 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
I feel like this wasn't the best possible selection of Dickinson's poetry, but there were still some gems. First physical book finished! I really hope to do better than last year where physical books are concerned...
Born in a Second Language ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📚-> 🐙🐙
Trying to read more poetry this year and this was pretty amazing! Focus on colonialism and language. Definitely will read more by this author if she publishes.
Harrow the Ninth ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠👂🏽📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Not really know what to say, this was hard to get through. The series still didn't fully win me over, but I'm going to read the next book.
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Owned since 2022
📚📕⌛📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Amazing book, even though it kind of took me forever to get through.
Elatsoe ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📚👂🏽📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Really lovely book, enjoyed reading it so much! The ending was just a little bit underwhelming though.
The Empress of Salt and Fortune ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2021
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
This has been on my TBR for ever and I admit that I expected something a little bit different, but this was still highly enjoyable. Looking forward to the next installment in the series!
Krvavá svatba / Bodas de sangre Owned since 2023 ⭐⭐⭐
📕 -> 🐙🐙🐙
This was a pretty random library sale purchase. I mostly bought it because it was small, fit into your pocket format and I liked the feel of the book. I also never read anything by this author before and he was gay, so... yeah. That was the motivation. I pretty much enjoyed it, even though the ending was very underwhelming and I just didn't love the direction it went it. A lot of loveable things about it though.
Nejrudější růže rozkvétá ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📕⌛ -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
I liked Fruit Of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy better...
Mooncakes ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2021
⌛📚 -> 🐙🐙🐙
I'm so glad I finally came back around to this comic! I quite liked it.
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
I honestly thought I wouldn't like this but I ended up loving it so much.
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
This was darker than expected and I didn't love everything about it, but overall great!
Claws and Contrivances ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙
Completely bonkers! I think I liked this better than the first book in a series? But it isn't Northanger Abbey retelling.
The Witchwood Knot ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Great book! I'm still speechless, deserves all the stars!
A Rogue of One's Own ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙
I'm really loving this series, this book is my favourite so far.
Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Great poetry collection! My favourite in years...
The House of Shattered Wings ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠👂🏽📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Love Aliette de Bodard, I'm really excited to continue on with this series!
Ella Enchanted ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📮 + it is on my cozy tbr list so -> 🐙🐙
Portrait of a Scotsman ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙
Still a great series! Would highly recommend!
Bride ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
I was loving this until the third act breakup. I'm still mad about that.
Forbidden Notebook ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠📮 -> 🐙🐙
A great classic, I'm glad that I read it even though my interest waned a bit in the second half...
The Black God's Drums ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Finally read this! I liked other Clark's stories better but this one was still excellent!
Hunting Monsters ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠📮 -> 🐙🐙
Really liked this short-story! I'm excited to read more from this series!
Dcera sochaře (/Sculptor's Daughter) ⭐⭐⭐ Owned since...??? Who knows, it was a gift quite a long time ago... 2015?
📕 -> 🐙🐙🐙
Not for me, but there were things I liked.
Pyromancy for Beginners ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙
I wasn't the biggest fan, I'm not continuing with the series...
The Salt Grows Heavy ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮📜-> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
I thought I would like this one more, but it was still pretty excellent!
TJ Powar Has Something to Prove ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📚📮📜-> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
This was excellent, so much better than expected! And I already expected quite a bit...
Uncommonly Verdant ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠📮 -> 🐙🐙
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
This was great, but I liked Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. better...
Sister Outsider ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📚📕📜 ->🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Excellent read, I'm glad I finally did this!
No Man's Land ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
This one was a bit disappointing...
We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📚📕📜 ->🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
I love Margaret Killjoy, this collection shouldn't technically get a five but I don't care!
The Broken Heavens On my TBR since 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📮📜⌛ -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Good closure to amazing series, I'm glad I finally managed to finish this.
A Day of Fallen Night On my TBR since... problematic since I planned to read Priory first let's say since 2022 to 2023. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙
Amazing book, loved it not much more to say!
Through the Eye of the Needle ⭐⭐,5
📜 📮-> 🐙🐙🐙
Really didn't love this one. Really disappointed with this one since I hoped to cement my love for the author.
Mary Poppins Comes Back On my TBR since... forever? My GR says 2023, but that's not accurate of how long I wanted to read it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📜👂🏽-> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Basically the first book 2.0 which was a bit disappointing but I did enjoy it.
Out on a Limb On my TBR since 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙
There were a lot of little things that bothered me and I didn't fully resonated with the protagonists, but overall it was lovely and I really think we need more romances like that.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas On my TBR since... 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙
This was quite good (surprise surprise) still mulling it over.
Horror: A Very Short Introduction On my TBR since 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙
Serviceable. This was quite good but I needed a bit more.
The Kissing of Kissing On my TBR since 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚 -> 🐙🐙
Still not sure how I feel about this. Poetry is so subjective.
Stalked by the Kraken On my TBR since 2023 ⭐⭐⭐
👂🏽⌛ -> 🐙🐙🐙
Again, serviceable. I didn't care much about the plot, but I wasn't there for the plot anyway.
Paní jezera (/Lady of the Lake) On my TBR since... let's say 2020 ⭐⭐⭐
📕📚 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Disappointing. A really weird closure to the series... wtf...
I am the worst in doing regular updates in this challenge, but after this info dump I will really try 🙈Thief Liar Lady ⭐⭐⭐,5 On my TBR since 2023
🧠📮 -> 🐙🐙
Enjoyable, but I expected more from this.
Vampires of El Norte ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📜👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Lot of excellent stuff but the romance angst kind of killed it.
The Sun and the Void ⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠📜👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Disappointing...
Both Feet in the Grave ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📜👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Fun. Mostly...
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📜📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Kimberly Lemming is growing on me. I actually really enjoyed this one!
Feed Them Silence ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
This was SO good! And SO SAD!
Testing Pandora ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📜📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
I was surprised how very readable this was!
Tone of Voice ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📜📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Enjoyable! Space whales!
The Emperor's Soul ⭐⭐⭐⭐,5 On my TBR since 2023
🧠📜📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
My introduction to Sanderson and as that it worked really great! Really enjoyable novela.
Romantic Outlaws ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Owned since 2022
📚📜📕 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Amazing book!
The Priory of the Orange Tree ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since... GR says 2022 but it has to be longer... I'm pretty sure I bought this book before the pandemic...
📚📜📕 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
So glad I finally read this! Excellent but A Day of Fallen Night was better...
Sweet Berries ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023📮 -> 🐙 Seems like I should have added a rule about getting an octopus when I'm continuing with a series... oh well...
This was okay, not well written but fun.
Fanny, A Mansfield Park Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2020
📚 - > 🐙🐙
I know the author and I was glad to finally read this one! I really enjoyed it...
Nettle & Bone ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023🧠👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙
So good, I'm glad I finally read this! I really need to read more Kingfisher!
The House of Binding Thorns ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚👂🏽📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Even better than the first book in the series! Can't wait continuing with it!
Iron Widow ⭐⭐⭐,5 On my TBR since 2022📚👂🏽 ->🐙🐙🐙🐙
Definitely intriguing book!
Bryony and Roses ⭐⭐⭐⭐,5 On my TBR since 2023
🧠👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙
I'm clearly on a Kingfisher kick! This was great!
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023/forever🧠👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙
Enjoyed this one but I thought I would be more emotionally invested.
All the Hidden Paths ⭐⭐⭐⭐📚👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Liked this even better than the previous installment in the series.
Violet Made of Thorns ⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022📚👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Different than expected? Not bad, but not what I was in mood for really....
The Dragon's Promise ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2022
📚👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Mixed feelings, but I enjoyed it.
Deceived by the Gargoyles ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
🧠👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙
So much better than the first book in the series, loved it!
Untethered Sky ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On my TBR since 2023
📚📮 -> 🐙🐙🐙
Such a pleasant surprise! This book is really sad though, just a fair warning...
The Left Hand of Darkness ⭐⭐⭐,5 On my TBR since 2022
📚👂🏽 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙
I hoped to love it more but since I already DNFed it once, it's not like it is a surprise...
Northanger Abbey ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Owned since 2020📕📚📜 -> 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
Loved it, although I really wish I didn't see the movie so many times beforehand...
Mount TBR Challenge 2024
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Copying the rules from my previous thread:
I broke some rules while climbing Pike's Peak last year (we still shall see if I make it to the end!), this year I just decided to re-make the rules completely (please don't throw me out of the group 🙈). My reading habits are a bit different than this challenge expects, so it doesn't work that great for me hence making my own rules and sticking to them this time.
Rule n. 1: For book to apply it has to be on some of my tbrs - that means, listen on GR (either on shelf to-read or keeping-in-mind), downloaded on my kindle and/or computer, downloaded/owned as an audio file, listed on some of my other tbr lists (we'll get to this) BEFORE 2024 starts.
This will be harder to check on the downloads and kindle, but I hope I can make this work.
Rule n. 2: To win this challenge there need to be 10 books read from my physical tbr (📕) - at least half of the books should be owned prior to the beginning of 2024, but I can make some exceptions as long as the book has been on my radar before the beginning of the year.
Rule n.3: There will be a point system (yes, I'm clearly very serious about this).
Point system:
1. 📚 Book from my GR to-read shelf is for 🐙🐙
(yes, I'm giving myself octopus points, because I feel like it at the moment!)
2. 🧠 Book from my keeping-in-mind shelf is for 🐙
3. 📮 Book that I already have on kindle (or have e-book/pdf of) is +🐙 (if I don't have it on any list otherwise, it's just that one 🐙)
4. 👂🏽 Book that I own an audio for +🐙🐙 (I can only get octopuses for either kindle or audio, not both for one book)
5. 📕 Book that I physically own +🐙🐙 (If I only own it and forgot to list it at GR, I get 🐙🐙🐙).
6. 📜 If the book is on my Master-list-tbr for 2024, I get... +🐙🐙 (I'll like that here once that's definitely done. If I don't have it listed elsewhere it gets 🐙🐙🐙)
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7. ⌛ Books that are from my on-hiatus shelf, that I previously attempted and didn't finish or that got stuck on my currently-reading shelf for a time that I estimate as "long" will get at least +🐙 (might get more on the amount of effort that I'll have to make to finish them).
This means that for a book I can get from 🐙 to 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 (7) Is that too much? I guess we shall see. If the amounts doesn't work I reserve the right to change the rules 😂😂😂
Rule n. 4: To win, I need to get... 180 🐙? (I know it might not look like it, but I'm not that great at math, so we shall see if this is an easy goal, or too hard one. If I need to read more books than 48 to make that goal, I guess that's fine.
Edit: I clearly calculated this really well since upon archiving the goal of 48 books I had about 183 🐙 SO with increasing the goal to 100 how about we made it a bit more interesting and made the goal... 400? Is it a stretch? Let's see...
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