[trystan830]

i set myself a reading challenge every year, which is to read more books than the previous year. 2017 was the first year i did this on Trisphee, (i had a great time! thanks Moonshadow!) and last year i had fun hosting... so here we are again!

so, (snagging from previous threads), set a challenge for yourself: read 50 books, read only the books you have at home that you haven't read yet, read a specific genre, read only non-fiction books... whatever you choose.

Your first post should contain your challenge, and use a spoiler to indicate how you are progressing in meeting that challenge. i use a spoiler for my booklist. =)

Please feel free to chat about books, your day, anything!

[trystan830]

List of members who are joining our 2019 Reading Challenge

trystan830
Kaderin Triste
Quiet Man Cometh
Merskelly Metalien

(each name links to their challenge post)

[trystan830]

reserved... just for giggles

[trystan830]

my reading challenge: in 2018, i read 37 books. my goal is to read more than that.... Goal Completed, and still going!

~*2019 Book List*~

1. I Work at a Public Library, by Gina Sheridan
2. Wild Hunger, by Chloe Neill
3. Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch
4. Look Alive Twenty-Five, by Janet Evanovich
5. Driving Heat, by Richard Castle
6. Tales of Dune, by Brian Herbert & KJAnderson
7. Road to Dune, by Frank & Brian Herbert & KJAnderson
8. High Heat, by Richard Castle
9. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Circle, by Dave Eggers
11. Navigating The Stars, by Maria V. Snyder
12. Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver
13. the Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Warriors ~ The Broken Code: Lost Stars, by Erin Hunter
15. Except the Dying, by Maureen Jennings
16. Much Ado About Mean Girls, by Ian Doescher
17. Under the Dragon's Tail, by Maureen Jennings
18. The Association, by Bentley Little
19. Storm Cursed, by Patricia Briggs
20. Poor Tom is Cold, by Maureen Jennings
21. Get Thee... Back to the Future!, by Ian Doescher
22. Love Saves the Day, by Gwen Cooper
23. The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
24. Let Loose the Dogs, by Maureen Jennings
25. The Obsoletes, by Simeon Mills
26. Night's Child, by Maureen Jennings
27. Vices of my Blood, by Maureen Jennings
28. A Map of Days, by Ransom Riggs
29. The Eyes of Tamburah, by Maria V Snyder
30. A Journeyman to Grief, by Maureen Jennings
31. The Power, by Naomi Alderman
32. Squirrelflight's Hope, by Erin Hunter
33. Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste, by Bea Johnson
34. The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less, by Amy Korst
35. Legends of the Clans, by Erin Hunter
36. Path of a Warrior, by Erin Hunter
37. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
38. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, by Gretchen McCulloch
39. MacTrump,by Ian Doescher & Jacopo della Quercia
40. The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa
41. An Indigenous People's History of the United States for Young People, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; adapted by Jean Mendoza & Debbie Reese
42. The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace, by Patricia Wiltshire
43. Warriors ~ The Broken Code: The Silent Thaw, by Erin Hunter
44. Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson
45. Wicked Hour, by Chloe Neill

for my information:

reread list:

*The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings (Fellowship, Two Towers, Return)
*the Hitchhiker's Trilogy (the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; the Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe, and Everything; So Long and Thanks for all the Fish; Mostly Harmless)
*the Han Solo Trilogy
*Illium; Olympos
*Harry Potter
*Sidney Sheldon's books
*Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series A-Y

own and still need to read:
*The Testaments
*The Alienist
*The Three Musketeers

[Kaderin Triste]

Hmmm...I did pretty abysmal last year. I think this year, my goal will be...only 15 books. *Was only gonna try for 12, one per month, but I actually have a lot of in progress books, so I should be able to maybe finish a couple of those off in a month.

Kaderin's Reading List

1. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
Page 210 of 969
2. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page 60 of 936
3.Oathbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
Page 53 of 1233
4. Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan
Page 32 of 474
5. The Books of The Gods (Part One) - Fred Saberhagen
Page 172 of 1013
6. In The Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
375 pages
Finished April 17
7. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
307 pages
Finished April 15
8. The Elvenbane - Andre Norton and Meecedes Lackey
390 pages
Finished August 25
9. The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan
681 pages
Finished February 11
10. PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
470 pages
Finished May 27
11. Noisy Nora - Rosemary Wells
34 pages
Finished August 19
12. What Not To Say - Unlisted Author(s)/Knock knock LLC
127 pages
Finished December 16
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[Quiet Man Cometh]

I was hoping this would be here! I flaked out and forgot.

My challenge this year is to read (for challenge credit) only the books I already own! (Christmas presents count. ;)) For extra fun, I've wrapped them all so it's going to be something of a surprise which ones I end up reading and in what order.

~ Quiet's Book Challenge 2019 ~
"The Incomplete Bookshelf"
[spoil]2018 holdouts: Vas - Tomasula

January: Sword of Destiny - Sapkowski
James and the Giant Peach - Dahl
February: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - O'Brien
Fatty Legs - Joran-Fenton & Pokiak-Fenton
The Prince and the Dressmaker - Wang
Confessions of an Imaginary Friend - Cuevas
March: Coraline - Gaiman
Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow - Howe
I work at a Public Library - Sheridan
Cthulhu Tales - various
Tom Gates: Dog Zombies Rule! (for now) - Pichon
April: The Asylum of Dr. Caligari - Morrow
May: Kind of didn't happen.
June: Tom Gates: Extra Special Treats! (Not) - Pichon
Summer fail!
Fall: Moral Combat - Markey & Ferguson
September: A Whale In Paris - Polders & Presley

[trystan830]

that sounds interesting, Quiet Man! glad you could join us!

[trystan830]

off to a good start! i read I Work at a Public Library, by Gina Sheridan in a day! heh. fun little stories about library patron. most made me stare at the page and go "really??" at end though, i think my allergies were acting up, it was really dusty where i was reading it...

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Really? I want to read that! I'm hoping to get some experience in a public library this semester.

[trystan830]

heh, have fun!

here's an excerpt i posted on my instagram....



yeah.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Hee hee.

I like reading job stories. Some stuff can get a little odd, and people can be weird about anything.

[trystan830]

check out notalwaysright.com - highly entertaining, even if it does make you want to smash your head into the desk more than once....

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I hate that expression. And it's always cited by the most irritating customers.

Will totally check it out!

[trystan830]

agreed - the customer is not always right.

[Merskelly Metalien]

>->; I should probably read more often..I didn't read a lot at all last year...
Can I join the reading challenge? :[ I have quite a few things I've not gotten around to reading and even got two books for Christmas.
<x[ I've been neglecting the book book books. Like finishing Frankenstein finally,
and re-reading a collection of short stories that I read a long time ago in Jr. High, and also getting around to reading the harry potter series in order this time...

+~2019 Reading Goals/List~+

Books with bookmarks still in them...
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Books to read (over)...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the etc etc...
Curses, Inc. by Vivian Vande Velde
My collection of 101 Great Ghost Stories
Medea by Euripides

Authors to explore...
Richard Matheson
Stephen King
Ray Bradbury
H.P. Lovecraft

+some fables by the Brother's Grimm,
Myths and Legends from around the world

And some Manga on our shelf I haven't gotten around to...

[trystan830]

of course you can join, Merskelly!!

i'll link your post #15 up in post #2, so feel free to update that one with books read, plan to read, and whatever else you'd like. i'm post #4, if you want to see what i have. =)