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message 1: by Zuzana (last edited Oct 25, 2025 09:02AM) (new)

Zuzana | 1232 comments Here we go again! Looking forward to another new year on Goodreads full of reading challenges! :)

I'm reading this month:



★★★★★
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::in progress::

📚 books
🎧 audiobooks
🎬 movies
📺 TV shows
📻 radio plays, audio dramatizations
🎭 theatrical adaptations
💡 documentaries
👨‍🎓 lectures
👨‍🎓👨‍🎓 debates
🧑🏻‍🎤 podcasts


message 3: by Zuzana (new)

Zuzana | 1232 comments Planned read-a-thons:

Read What You Own
Febregency
Jane Austen July
Victober
Nonfiction November


message 4: by Zuzana (last edited Oct 28, 2025 09:56AM) (new)

Zuzana | 1232 comments MY PERSONAL READING CHALLENGE FOR 2026


message 5: by Zuzana (last edited Nov 17, 2025 10:32AM) (new)

Zuzana | 1232 comments READ WHAT YOU OWN CHALLENGE 2025/2026
Start: 10/29/25

1. 🎧 Mansfield Park 11/2/25 (Audible)
2. 🎧 Pride and Prejudice 11/5/25 (Audible)
3. 🎧 Sense and Sensibility 11/17/25 (Audible)
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Rules:
(view spoiler)

Tiers:
Platinum - 100 books or 25,000 pages
Gold - 75 books or 18,750 pages
Silver - 50 books or 12,500 pages
Bronze - 25 books or 6,250 pages
Tin - 10 books or 2,500 pages

Books Bought During the Challenge:
Jane Austen's Garden A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels by Molly Williams Emmett by Lev A.C. Rosen Isabella (Xmas gift)


message 6: by Zuzana (last edited Oct 28, 2025 05:15AM) (new)

Zuzana | 1232 comments The End (of Another Year) Is Nigh!
2025 TBR List - Announced November 1st, 2025

1. Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Read a book featuring a duel, battle, or fight scene.
Děvčátko, rozdělej ohníček by Martin Šmaus (a street fight)
Děvčátko, rozdělej ohníček by Martin Šmaus
2. Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Read a book with a ghost, spirit, or other spectral being in it.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. Alchemy That! Part II: The Spectral Brew - Read a book collecting dust on your physical or virtual bookshelf for the minimum of 3 years.
My Dear Cassandra : Selections from the Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett, Jane Austen (bought Oct 2021)
My Dear Cassandra Selections from the Letters of Jane Austen (The Illustrated Letters) by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
4. The Prince and his Date-scapades - Read 3 books on or about courtship or dating.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1st of 3)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. The Prince and his Date-scapades - Read 3 books on or about courtship or dating.
Persuasion by Jane Austen (2nd of 3)
Persuasion by Jane Austen
6. The Prince and his Date-scapades - Read 3 books on or about courtship or dating.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (3rd of 3)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
7. Stick to your New Year's Reading resolutions (For a change) - Don't be intimidated by longer books. - Read either one 1000+ page book or two 500+ page books.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1,000+ pages)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
8. The Bone-Afide Problem - Cursed Marrow – Read a book with a curse word in the text.
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (by skimming I came across several instances of the F-word)
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
9. The Bone-Afide Problem - Brittle Bones – Read a book where a main character is recovering from injury.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Marianne recovering from a sprained ankle)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
10. When Two Become One - Read a book with a main character whose first or last name starts with S.
Lady Susan by Jane Austen (lady Susan Vernon)
Lady Susan by Jane Austen


message 7: by Zuzana (last edited Nov 02, 2025 03:46AM) (new)

Zuzana | 1232 comments The Bone-Afide Problem

1. The Skeleton Key – Read a book where hidden doors or a secret room are involved.
Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
2. Brittle Bones – Read a book where a main character is recovering from injury.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
3. Bone to Pick – Read a book featuring a long-standing feud.
These Old Shades (Alastair-Audley, #1) by Georgette Heyer
4. Dance Macabre – Read a book with people dancing on the cover.
The Georgian Gentleman by Michael Brander
5. Cursed Marrow – Read a book with a curse word in the text. Quote the sentence containing the curse word.
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
6. Bag of Bones – Gather 25 Bat Wings and 10 Balls of Wool to stitch together a sack big enough to corral the reveling skeletons.

You did it! The castle is once again skeleton-free. Nick the Necromancer is grateful for your help in containing the bony bedlam, and rewards you with 5 XP and 3 Potion Tokens.


message 8: by Zuzana (last edited Nov 17, 2025 10:29AM) (new)

Zuzana | 1232 comments first three pages of the Satire genre Goodreads page:


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